• Muhammad Abu Zahra (Arabic: محمد أبو زهرة; 1898–1974) was an Egyptian public intellectual and an influential Hanafi jurist. He occupied a number of positions;...
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  • Francesco Zahra (1710–1773), Maltese painter Hindi Zahra (born 1979), Moroccan pop singer Julie Zahra (born 1982), Maltese singer Muhammad Abu Zahra (1898–1974)...
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    Fatima bint Muhammad (Arabic: فَاطِمَة بِنْت مُحَمَّد, romanized: Fāṭima bint Muḥammad; 605/15–632 CE), commonly known as Fatima al-Zahra' (Arabic: فَاطِمَة...
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    Sunnah Muhammad Idrees as-Shafi'i the Mujadid of the 3rd century was Imam of Ahlul Sunnah Abu Hasan Ashari the Mujadid of the 4th century was Abu Abdullah...
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    Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali...
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    Persian poetry. Rumi states in his Dīwān: The Sufi is hanging on to Muhammad, like Abu Bakr. Rumi's work has been translated into many of the world's languages...
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    مُحَمَّد عَلِي اْبْن أَحْمَد اْبْن سَعِيد اْبْن حَزْم اُلْأَنْدَلُسِي, Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāʿid ibn Ḥazm al-Andalusī; November 994 – 15 August...
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    Abū ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri,...
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  • Dawah (section Post-Muhammad)
    Raji in 625, Muhammad sent some men as missionaries to various different tribes. Some men came to Muhammad and requested that Muhammad send instructors...
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    behind two major students, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani, who would later become celebrated jurists in their own right. How Abu Hanifa earned his name...
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    took from Abu Hanifa. Among his students: Ali bin Said Abu al-Hasan al-Rustughfani, Abu Muhammad Abdal-Karim bin Musa bin Isa al-Bazdawi, and Abu al-Qasim...
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    further sailors on the strait. Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, the companion and standard bearer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, had died during the first Siege...
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    Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr (Arabic: آية الله العظمى السيد محمد باقر الصدر; 1 March 1935 – 9 April 1980), also known as al-Shahīd al-Khāmis (the fifth martyr)...
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    Sultan-ul-Mashaikh, Khwaja Syed Muhammad Nizamuddin Auliya (sometimes spelled Awliya; 1238 – 3 April 1325), also known as Hazrat Nizamuddin, and Mahbub-e-Ilahi...
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    Muhammad ibn Ali al-Baqir (Arabic: محمد بن علي الباقر, romanized: Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Bāqir; c. 676–732) was the fifth imam in Shia Islam, succeeding...
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    Radio Pakistan. Problems playing this file? See media help. Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī (Urdu: محمد شفیع بن محمد ياسین عثمانی...
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    Islam in South Asia. He was a reformer who wrote extensively in defense of Muhammad and popular Sufi practices. He influenced millions of people, and today...
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    Islam. Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī was born in Basra, Iraq, and was a descendant of Abū Mūsa al-Ashʿarī, who belonged to the first generation of Muhammad's closest...
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    Muhammad Abu Zahra (d. 1394 AH) Abdul Majid Daryabadi (d. 1397 AH) Muhammad Shafi' Deobandi (d. 1395 AH) Abul Wafa Al Afghani (d. 1395 AH) Muhammad Shafi'...
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  • son-in-law, and Fāṭima, Muhammad's daughter. Ja'far's mother, Umm Farwa, was a great-granddaughter of the first rāshidūn caliph, Abū Bakr. During the first...
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  • The hadith attributed to Muhammad and known as the hadith of 73 sects states that there will be 73 different sects and groups within Islam, and that only...
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    daughters with Muhammad (Ruqayyah bint Muhammad, Umm Kulthum bint Muhammad, Zainab bint Muhammad, Fatimah Zahra) and two sons (Abd-Allah ibn Muhammad and Qasim...
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  • al-Qayyim. Bulugh al-Amani fi Sirat al-Imam Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani - a short biography of Imam Abu Hanifa's student who would compile the Zahir...
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    is alike Al-Layth ibn Sa'd, Malik ibn Anas, Al-Shafi'i, and Abu Yusuf. Muhammad Abu Zahra, a contemporary Hanafi scholar, wrote a book titled Ibn Hanbal:...
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     9937–9939. ISBN 002865983X. Qutbuddin, T. (2006). "Fatima (al-Zahra') bint Muhammad (ca. 12 before Hijra–11/ca. 610–632)". In Meri, J.W. (ed.). Medieval...
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    Brill, 2001, p.134-137 . Muhammad Abu Zahra, The history of Madh'habs and Divinity Schools in Islam. Scholar of renown: Muhammad Abu Zahrah Archived 2015-09-23...
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  • jurist, and theologian Abu Hanifa, a follower whose legal views were primarily preserved by his two disciples Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani. As the...
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    Darul Uloom Madrassa in Deoband, India, from which the name derives, by Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi, Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, and several others, after the Indian...
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    of the first Rashidun Caliph, Abu Bakr. His paternal aunt was Aisha, one of the wives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Some traditions state that Al-Qāsim's...
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     'Conqueror of the World'), which derived from his title, Abu al-Muzaffar Muhi-ad-Din Muhammad Bahadur Alamgir Aurangzeb Badshah al-Ghazi. Under his emperorship...
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