• adh-Dhahabī (شمس الدين الذهبي), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī...
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  • Siyar A'lam al-Nubala' (Arabic:سير أعلام النبلاء) is a book written by al-Dhahabi containing the biographies of different Sahaba, ulema, rulers, ministers...
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    things like "It is authenticated by al-Hâkim and al-Dhahabî concurs". In doing so, they are referring to al-Dhahabi's Talkhîs, his abridgement of the Mustadrak...
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    bil-Qur'āni Makhlūq). Al-Dhahabi and al-Subki asserted that Al-Bukhari was expelled due to the jealousy of certain scholars of Nishapur. Al-Bukhari spent the...
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  • Abu Bakr ibn Ayoub, Ibn 'Abd ad-Da'im, Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī, and Safi Al-Din Al-Hindi. Ibn al-Qayyim began studying under Ibn Taymiyyah at the age of...
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  • Muhammad Husayn al-Dhahabi (October 19, 1915 — July 7, 1977) was an Al-Azhar scholar and the former Egyptian Minister of Religious Endowments. He was a...
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    studied in the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina. He was named by al-Dhahabi as "one of the geniuses of the sons of Adam" who "combined jurisprudence...
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  • Kathir's teachers include al-Dhahabi and Ibn Taymiyya. He wrote several books, including a fourteen-volume universal history titled al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya (Arabic:...
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    of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time." Al-Bayhaqi was born c. 994...
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    Ahmad al-Mansur (Arabic: أبو العباس أحمد المنصور, Ahmad Abu al-Abbas al-Mansur, also al-Mansur al-Dahabbi (the Golden), Arabic: أحمد المنصور الذهبي; and...
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  • usually given as 202 AH (817/818), 204 AH (819/820), or 206 AH (821/822). Al-Dhahabi said, "It is said that he was born in the year 204 AH," though he also...
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    by al-Dhahabi, which in turn is a reworking of an earlier work. Talkhis al-Habir fi Takhrij al-Rafiʿi al-Kabir al-Diraya fi Takhrij Ahadith al-Hidaya...
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    He was further praised by the 14th-century historian and traditionist al-Dhahabi, who referred to Ibn Hanbal as "the true shaykh of Islam and imam of the...
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    al-Itidal by al-Dhahabi Lisan al-Mizan by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, a reworking of Mizan al-'Itidal by al-Dhahabi. Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani...
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  • Awliya, Sufi hagiographer, and a prolific writer. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He was of very high status." Al-Sulami was born in the city of Nishapur in the...
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    bizarre view of Ibn Hazm regarding Al-Tirmidhi's status in Hadith was also recorded by Al-Dhahabi in his book, Tarikh Al-Islam, and he said the following:...
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  • any other Imam for that matter, not even such dignitaries as ibn al-Qayyim, al-Dhahabi, or ibn Kathir, I summon you only to God, and Only Him as well as...
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  • he has also been referred to as "Dāwūd al-Iṣfahānī". The Muslim historians and scholars Ibn Ḥazm and al-Dhahabī, alongside the American scholar of Islamic...
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  • having seen him. While ad-Dhahabi praised Uwais as “The ascetic role model, the leader of the Tabi'un in his time". Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri gave a short commentary...
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    this battle. al-Dhahabi favored this version as he deemed this authentic, which also narrated by al-Bayhaqi. Al-Dhahabi also add note that al-Bara' was twenty...
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    Siyar a`lam al-nubala, Athari theologian Al-Dhahabi described his teacher Ibn Taymiyya as a person who "supported the pure Sunna and al-Tariqa al-Salafiyah...
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  • historian Al-Dhahabi. She received permissions (ijazah) to narrate from Al-Muayid al-Tusi, Abu Ruh al-Harawi, Zainab al-Sha’riyah, Al-Qasim Ibn-al-Saaffar...
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    it. Sibt ibn al-Jawzi Ibn 'Aqil Notable Hanbali Scholars List of Muslim historians Asad Mayhani Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A'lam al-Nubala'. Ibn al-Ahdal (1964)...
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  • 1 p.21 Muhammad ibn Ahmad Al-Dhahabi,Mizan al-I`tidal fi Naqd al-Rijal, vol. 3 page 110 Ibn Hajr al-‘Asqalani, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, volume 9 page 366...
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    of Imam al-Shāfi‘ī's school were: Bayhaqi Al-Suyuti Al-Dhahabi Al-Ghazali Ibn Hajar Asqalani Ibn Kathir Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi Al-Mawardi Al Muzani...
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  • Baz Salih al-Fawzan Ghulam al-Khallal Al-Darimi Abu Zu'ra al-Razi Abu Hatim al-Razi Ibn Kathir Al-Dhahabi Ibrahim al-Kurani Rashid Rida Al-Nasa'i Uthman...
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  • al-Ṣafari al-Damascī Shafi'i. (1296 – 1363); he was a Turkic Mamluk author and historian. He studied under the historian and Shafi'i scholar, al-Dhahabi. He...
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  • opinion, voiced by Al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, is that it was 'Abd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr (عبد الرحمن بن صخر). According to Al-Dhahabi, Abu Hurairah...
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  • Bishr al-Hafi. ‘Abd al-‘Aziz ibn Ahmad al-Kattani claimed Al-Khatib belonged to the school of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari. The historian Al-Dhahabi agreed...
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  • al-Tabi'in, "the followers of the followers". He specialized in the field of hadith and Quran exegesis and was described by al-Dhahabi as Shaykh al-Islam—a...
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