Category: Islamic Authors

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalāni ابن حجر العسقلاني (18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449 CE / 773 – 852 A.H.), or simply Ibn Ḥajar,was a classic Islamic scholar “whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith.” He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and Shafi’i jurisprudence, the most…

Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi محمد بن عيسى الترمذي, 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 – 279 AH, often referred to as Imam at-Termezi/Tirmidhi, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez (early Khorasan and in present-day Uzbekistan). He wrote al-Jamias-Sahih (known as Jami at-Tirmidhi), one of the six canonical hadith compilations…

Abu Abd-ur-Rahman Ahmad ibn Shuayb ibn Ali ibn Sinan ibn Bahr Al-Khurasani An-Nasai, attributed to his homeland Nasa (present-day located in Turkmenistan). He was a great memorizer and critic of Hadith and one of the key figures in Muslim scholarship. He was renowned for his utmost extensive awareness of the defects of Hadith and the…

Belongs to Liaqatpur Rahimyar Khan, Got his early education from his native place in Madrassa Qasim al-Uloom. Later he went to Jamia Salfia for education. During his final year he shifted to Gujranwala under supervision of Hafiz Mohammad Gondalvi. Later he joined Idara Uloom-Asria in Faisalabad under Maulana Mohammad Abdullah where he completed his studies…

Abul Kalam Azad (born November 11, 1888, Mecca [now in Saudi Arabia]—died February 22, 1958, New Delhi, India) was an Islamic theologian who was one of the leaders of the Indian independence movement against British rule in the first half of the 20th century. He was highly respected throughout his life as a man of…

Abdul Majid Daryabadi (16 March 1892 – 6 January 1977) was an Islamic scholar, philosopher, writer, critic, researcher, journalist and exegete of the Quran in Indian subcontinent in the 20th century. He was as one of the most influential Indian Muslim scholar and was much concerned with modernism and comparative religions and orientalism in India

Hakeem Muhammad Akhtar (1928 – 2 June 2013) was a Pakistani Sunni Muslim scholar, poet, philanthropist and a Sufi mentor. He established the Jamiah Ashraful Madāris in Karachi. He was an alumnus of the State Unani Medical College Allahabad and the Madrasa Bait-ul-Uloom, Sarai Mir. He was an authorized disciple of Abrarul Haq Haqqi. His…

Muhammad Ilyas Attar Qadri (born 1950) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar who is the founder of Dawat-e-Islami. He belongs to the Qadri order of Sufism. A Kutchi Memon, Qadri was born in Karachi and studied under Muhammad Waqaruddin Qadri at Darul Uloom Amjadia. He was authorized in Sufism by Fazlur Rahman and Waqaruddin Qadri. His…

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (Arabic: جلال الدين السيوطي, c. 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu’ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian,…

Abu al-Husayn Asakir ad-Din Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshadh al-Qushayri an-Naysaburi أبو الحسين عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشاذ القشيري النيسابوري; after 815 – May 875 CE / 206 – 261 AH) or Muslim Nayshāpūrī (Persian: مسلم نیشاپوری), commonly known as Imam Muslim, was an Islamic…

Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of numerous books on history, biography, contemporary Islam, and the Muslim community in India, one of…

Imam Abd Al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Rajab is best known as Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali. He read and became proficient in the various fields of science. He engrossed himself with the issues of the (Hanbali) maddhab until he mastered it. He devoted himself to the occupation of knowledge of the texts, defects and meanings of the…