Authors Referred to in al-Mizan
NOTE: For reference to some of their work/s see Appendix B.
Abān b. Taghlib b. Rabāh al-Bakri al-Jurayri (?—141/758), the great Imamite traditionalist and commentator.
Abān b. ʿUthmān Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Aḥmar (?—c. 200/815), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal—Abū Muḥammad al-Shaybāni al-Baghdādī (213/828—288/901), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
ʿAbdullāh b. ʿĀmir b. Yazīd—Abū ʿImrān al-Yaḥṣabi al-Dimashqi (8/630—118/736), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
ʿAbdu al-Razzāq b. Hammām, Abū Bakr al-Ṣanʿāni (126/744—211/827), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlaʾ—Zabbān b. ʿAmmār al-Māzini al-Baṣrī (70/690—154/771), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
Abū ʿAwānah—Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq b. Ibrahīm al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (230/845—316/928), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū al-Baqāʾ—ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdillāh al-ʿUkbarī al-Ḥanbali (538/1143—616/1219), the Sunnī scholar.
Abū Dāwūd—Sulaymān b. al-Ashʿath al-Azdi al-Sajistāni (202/817—275/ 889), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisi—Sulaymān b. Dāwūd al-Qurashi al-Baṣrī (133/750—204/819), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Dharr al-Harawī—ʿAbd b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣāri al-Māliki (355/966—434/1043), the Sunnī scholar.
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī—ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad al-Umawi (284/ 897—356/967), the famous scholar.
Abū al-Fidāʾ—Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Maḥmūd al-Ayyūbi al-Shāfiʿī (672/1273—732/1338), the famous Sunnī historian.
Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī—al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Khuzāʾi (?—c. 560/1165), the famous Imamite commentator.
Abū Ḥanīfah—al-Nuʿmān b. Thabit al-Kūfī (80/699-150/767), the Ḥanafite Imam.
Abū Hanfah al-Miṣrī—al-Qadi, Ibn Hayyun, al-Nuʿman b. Muḥammad b. al-Manṣūr al-Tamīmī (c.270/884—363/974), the famous Shiʿite scholar.
Abū Ḥātim—Muḥammad b. Idrīs b. al-Mundhir al-Ḥanẓali al-Rāzī (195/810—277/890), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Ḥayyān al-Undulusi—Athīr al-Dīn, Ibn Ḥayyān, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Gharnāṭi al-Shāfiʿī (654/1256—745/1344), the Sunnī scholar.
Abū al-Hudhayl al-ʿAllāf—Muḥammad b. al-Hudhayl al-Baṣrī (135/753— 235/850), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Baṣrī—Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ṭayyib al-Muʿtazili al-Ḥanafī (?—436/1044), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
Abū Isḥāq al-Thaqafi—Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Kūfī (?—283/896), the great Imamite traditionalist.
Abū Naṣr al-Sijizzi—ʿUbaydullāh b. Saʿīd b. Ḥātim al-Wāʾilī (?—444/ 1052), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahāni—Aḥmad b. ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad al-Shāfiʿī (336/948—430/1038), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū al-Qāsim al-ʿAlawi—ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Kūfī (?—352/963), the Imamite scholar.
Abū al-Ṣalāh al-Ḥalabi—Taqi b. al-Najm b. ʿUbaydillah (374/984—447/1055), the famous Imamite scholar.
Abū al-Shaykh—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Ḥibbānī al-Iṣfahānī (274/887—369/979), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū ʿUbayd—al-Qāsim b. Sallām al-Harawi (157/774—224/838), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Abū al-Walīd al-Ṭayālisī—Hishām b. ʿAbdiʿl-Malik al-Baṣrī (133/750—227/741), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Yaʿla—Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Muthannā al-Tamīmī al-Mawṣili (210/ 825—307/919), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Abū Yaʿla al-Jaʿfari—Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamzah al-Baghdādī (?—463/1071), the famous Imamite scholar.
Aḥmad—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ḥanbal al-Shaybāni (164/780—241/855), the Ḥanbalite Imam.
Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿIsā—Abū Jaʿfar al-Ashʿari al-Qummī (?—during 2nd half of the 3rd/9th c.), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ājurrī—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdillāh al-Baghdādīal-Shāfiʿī (?—360/970), the Sunnī traditionalist.
ʿAlī b. Ḥarb—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ṭāʿi al-Mawṣili (170/786—265/879), the Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī—Abū Manṣūr, Jamal al-Dīn, al-Ḥasan b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī b. al-Muṭahhar al-Asadi (648/1250—726/1325), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Ālūsī—Abū al-Thanāʾ, Shihāb al-Din, Maḥmūd b. ʿAbdillāh al-Bagh-dādi al-Shāfiʿī (1217/1802—1270/1854), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Āmidī—Abū al-Fatḥ, ʿAbdu al-Wāḥid b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdu al-Wāḥid
al-Tamīmī (?—c. 550/1155), the traditionalist.
al-Amin—al-Sayyid Muḥsin b. ʿAbdi ʿl-Karim al-Ḥusaynī al-ʿĀmili (1282/ 1865—1371/1952), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Amini—al-Shaykh ʿAbdu al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad al-Tabrizī al-Najafi (1320/1902—1390/1970), the famous Imamite scholar.
ʿAmr b. ʿUbayd—Abū ʿUthmān al-Taymi al-Baṣrī (80/699—144/761), the Muʿtazilite Imam.
al-Anbāri—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. al-Qāsim b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbali (271/884—328/940), the Sunnī scholar.
al-ʿArūsi—al-Shaykh ʿAbd ʿAlī b. Jumuʾah al-Ḥuwayzi (?—11th/17th c.), the Imamite commentator.
al-Ashʿarī, Abū al-Ḥasan—ʿAlī b. Ismāʿil b. Abi Bishr al-Baṣrī (260/874 or 270/883—324/936), the Ashʿarite Imam.
ʿAṣim b. Abi al-Najūd (Bahdalah) al-Asadi al-Kūfīʾ (?—127/745), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
al-ʿAskari, Abū Aḥmad—al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdillāh b. Saʿīd al-Baṣrī (293/906—382/993), the famous scholar.
al-ʿAskari, Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Saʿīd b. ʿAbdillāh (?—305/917), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-ʿAskari, Abū Hilāl—al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbdillāh b. Sahl al-Baṣrī (?—a.d. 395/1005), the famous scholar.
ʿAṭaʾ b. Muslim b. Maysarah al-Khurāsāni (50/670—135/752), the commentator and traditionalist.
al-ʿAtīqī—Abū al-Ḥasan, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī (367/977—441/1049), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-ʿAyyāshi—Abū al-Naḍr, Muḥammad b. Masʿūd al-Sulami al-Samarqandi (?—2nd half of the 3rd/9th c.), the Imamite commentator and traditionalist.
al-Azhari—Abū Manṣūr, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Azhar al-Harawi (282/895—370/981), the famous linguist.
al-Baghawi—Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdu al-ʿAziz, Ibn bint Manīʿ al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī (214/829—317/929), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Bahāʾ al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī—Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAbdi ʿṣ-Ṣamad al-Ḥārithī, al-Shaykh al-Bahaʿi (950/1543—1030/1621), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Baḥrānī—al-Sayyid Hāshim b. Sulaymān b. Ismāʿīl al-Ḥusaynī (?—1107/1696), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Balādhurī—Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. Jābir (?—279/892), the famous historian.
al-Balāghi—Muḥammad Jawād b. Ḥasan b. Ṭālib al-Rabaʿi al-Najafi (1282/1865—1352/1933), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Balkhi—see al-Kaʿbi.
al Bāqillāni—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. al-Ṭayyib b. Muḥammad al-Baṣrī, al-Baghdādī al-Ashʿari al-Māliki (338/950—403/1013), the famous Ashʿarite scholar.
al-Barqāni—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Khwārazmī al-Shāfiʿī (336/948—425/1034), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Barqi—Abū Jaʿfar, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Khālid al-Qummī (?—274/888), the Imamite traditionalist.
al-Bayādī—Zayn al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad, ʿAlī b. Yūnus al-Nabaṭi al-ʿĀmili (791/1389—877/1472), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Baydāwi—Naṣir al-Dīn, Abū Said, ʿAbdullāh b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad
al-Ashʿari al-Shāfiʿī (?685/1286), the famous Sunnī commentator and scholar.
al-Bayhaqi—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥusayn al-Naysābūrī (384/994—458/1066), the Shāfiʿite scholar.
al-Bazzar—Abū Bishr, Harun b. Ḥātim al-Kūfī (?—249/863), the Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
al-Bazzaz—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. ʿAmr b. ʿAbdiʿl-Khaliq al-Baṣrī (210/ 825—292/905), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Bazzi—Abū al-Ḥasan, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Makki (170/786—243/857), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Bīrūnī Abū Rayḥān, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Khwārazmī (362/973—440/1048), the famous Shiʿite scholar in astronomy, chronology, history, mathematics, medicine, philosophy and physics.
al-Bisṭāmi—Nawrūz ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Bāqir al-Khurāsānī (?—1309/ 1892), the Imamite scholar.
al-Bukhāri—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Ismāʿil (194/810—256/870), the celebrated Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Burūsawi—Abū al-Fidaʾ, Ismaʿīl Ḥaqqi b. Muṣṭafā al-Ḥanafī (1063/ 1653—1137/1725), the Sunnī Ṣūfi commentator.
al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Muzahim—Abū al-Qāsim al-Hilālī al-Balkhi (?—105/723), the Sunnī tābi ʿi traditionalist and commentator.
Daʿlaj b. Aḥmad b. Daʿlaj—Abū Isḥāq, al-Sijizzi al-Baghdādī (260/874—351/962), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Dāmād—al-Sayyid Muḥammad Bāqir b. Shams al-Dīn, Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī al-Istarabādi, al-Mird-Dāmād (c. 960/1553—1041/1631), the famous Imamite scholar and philosopher.
al-Dānī—Abū ʿAmr, ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd b. ʿUthmān al-Andulusi (371/981— 444/1053), the famous Sunnī scholar and commentator.
al-Dārimī—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān al-Samarqandi (181/797—255/869), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ḍarīr al-Ḥīrī—Abū ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān, Ismaʿīl b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (361/972—430/1039), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Dār-quṭni—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī (306/919—385/995), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Daylami—Abū Manṣūr, Shahr-dār b. Shīrūyah al-Hamadānī al-Shāfiʿī (483/1090—558/1163), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Daylami—Abū Muḥammad, al-Ḥasan b. Abi al-Ḥasan (fl. 8th/15 c.), the Imamite scholar.
al-Daylamī—Abū Shujāʾ, Shīrūyah b. Shahr-dar al-Hamadan al-Shafiʿi (445/1053—509/1115), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Dhahabī—Shams al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān al-Dimashqi al-Shāfiʿī (673/1274—748/1348), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Ḍiyāʾ al-Maqdisī—Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdi ʿl-Wāḥid al-Saʿdī al-Ḥanbali (569/1173—643/1245), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Dūlābī—Abū Bishr, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ḥammād al-Anṣāri.
al-Rāzī al-Ḥanafī (224/839—310/923), the famous Ḥanafite traditionalist. al-Dūrī—Abū ʿUmar, Ḥafṣ b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbdu al-ʿAzīz al-Azdi (150/767— 246/860), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Fāḍil al-Jawād—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Shams al-Dīn, Muḥammad Jawād b. Saʿd (-i ʿllah) b. Jawād al-Kāẓimī (?—1065/1655), the Imamite scholar.
al-Fāḍil al-Miqdād—Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Miqdād b. ʿAbdillāh b. Muḥammad al-Suyūri al-Asadī al-Ḥillī (c. 740/1340—828/1423), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Faḍl b. Shādhān—Abū Muḥammad al-Azdī al-Naysābūrī (c. 195/811—1260/873), the great Imamite scholar.
Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn—Fakhr al-Dīn, Abū Ṭālib, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (al-ʿAllāmah al-Ḥillī) al-Asadi (682/1283—771/1370), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Fāriyābī—see al-Firyābi.
al-Fattal—Abū ʿAlī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Naysābūrī (?—514/1120), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Fayḍ al-Kāshāni—Muḥammad Muḥsin (1010/1599—1091/1690), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Fīrūzābādi—Majd al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb al-Shāfiʿī (729/ 1329—811/1415), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Firyābī—Abū Bakr, Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (207/822—301/913), the Sunnī scholar.
Furāt b. Ibrāhīm b. Furāt al-Kūfī (?—c. 300/913), the Imamite commentator and traditionalist.
al-Ganji—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Yūsuf b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī (?—658/1260), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Ghazāli—Abū Ḥāmid, Muḥammad, b. Muḥammad al-Tūsī (450/1058-505/1111), the famous Shāfiʿite scholar.
Ḥafṣ b. Sulaymān b. al-Mughīrah—Abū ʿUmar al-Asadī al-Kūfī (90/709-180/796), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Ḥākim—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Ibn al-Bayyiʾ, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Ḍabbi al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (321/933—405/1014), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ḥākim al-Ḥasakānī—ʿUbaydullāh b. Aḥmad al-Naysābūrī al-Ḥanafī (?—a.d. 490/1097), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ḥākim al-Tirmidhi—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan (?—c. 320/932), the Sunnī Ṣūfi scholar.
(al-Sayyid) Ḥāmid Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad Quli al-Mūsawi al-Kantūrī (1246/ 1830—1306/1888), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ḥammād b. ʿĪsā—Aba Muḥammad al-Juhanī al-Kūfī (c. 124/742—209/ 824), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ḥammūyī—Abū Isḥāq, Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Abi Bakr al-Juwayni al-Shāfiʿī (644/1246—742/1322), the Sunnī scholar.
Ḥamzah b. Ḥabīb b. ʿUmārah al-Taymi al-Zayyāt al-Kūfī (80/700—156/ 773), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
Hannād b. al-Sariyy b. Muṣʿab al-Tamīmī al-Kūfī (152/769—243/857), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ḥasan b. Maḥbūb b. Wahb-Aba ʿAlī al-Sarrād (al-Zarrād) al-Bajalī
al-Kūfī (149/766—224/839), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. Samāʿah—Abū Muḥammad al-Kindi, al-Ṣayrafī al-Kūfī (?—263/877), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ḥasan b. Sufyān b. ʿĀmir—Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Shaybāni al-Nasawī al-Shāfiʿī (213/828—303/916), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ḥasan b. Sulaymān b. Khālid al-Ḥillī (?—a.d. 757/1356), the Imamite scholar.
al-Haythami—Nar al-Dīn, Aba Bakr, ʿAlī b. Abi Bakr b. Sulaymān al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (735/1335—807/1405), the Sunnī scholar.
Hibatullāh b. Salāmah—Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghdādī (?—410/1019), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Ḥimyari—Abū al-ʿAbbās, ʿAbdullāh b. Jaʿfar b. al-Ḥusayn al-Qummi (?—a.d. 297/910), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ḥīrī—Abū Saʿīd, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Naysābūrī al-Shafiʿi (288/901—353/964), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
Hishām b. al-Ḥakam—Abū Muḥammad al-Shaybāni al-Kūfī (c. 105/723—189/805), the celebrated Imamite traditionalist and scholar.
al-Ḥumaydi—Abū Bakr, ʿAbdullāh b. al-Zubayr al-Asadi al-Makki (?—219/834), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ḥumrān b. Aʿyan—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shaybāni al-Kūfī (?—c. 130/748), the famous Imamite traditionalist and reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī—Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (1033/1625—1104/1693), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd b. Ḥammād al-Ahwāzi (?—c. 250/864), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn ʿAbdi ʿl-Bārr—Abū ʿUmar, Yūsuf b. ʿAbdillāh al-Qurṭubi al-Māliki (368/978—463/1071), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Ibn ʿAbdi ʿl-Ḥakam—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Miṣrī al-Māliki (182/798—268/882), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn ʿAbd Rabbah—Abū ʿUmar, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Qurṭubi (246/ 860—328/940), the famous Sunnī man of letters.
Ibn Abi ʿAqīl—Abū Muḥammad, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Ḥadhdhāʾal-ʿUmānī (fl. 4th/ 10th c.), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Abī Dāwūd—Abū Bakr, ʿAbdullāh b. Sulaymān b. al-Ashʿath al-Azdi al-Sajistāni (230/844—316/929), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi ʿd-Dunyā—Abū Bakr, ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-Umawī al-Bagh-
dādi (208/823—281/894), the Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
Ibn Abi Ḥātim—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ḥanẓali al-Rāzī (240/854—327/938), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi Jumhūr—Shams al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm al-Aḥsāʾl
(?—c. 880/1475), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Abi Laylā-ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Yasar al-Anṣāri al-Kūfī (18/639—82/701), the famous tābiʿī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi Naṣr al-Bazanṭi—Abū Jaʿfar, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr al-Kūfī (?—221/836), the great Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn Abī Shaybah—Abū Bakr, ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad al-ʿAbsī al-Kūfī (159/776—235/849), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi Shaybah—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad al-ʿAbsi al-Kūfī (150/767—239/853), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi Shaybah—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān al-ʿAbsi al-Kūfī (c. 205/821—297/910), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Abi ʿUmayr—Abū Muḥammad, Muḥammad b. Abi ʿUmayr (Ziyad) b. ʿIsā al-Azdī al-Baghdādī (?—217/832), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn Abī Usāmah—Abū Muḥammad, al-Hārith b. Muḥammad b. Abi Usāmah al-Tamīmī al-Baghdādī (186/802—282/895), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn ʿAdiyy—Abū Aḥmad, ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAdiyy al-Jurjani al-Shāfiʿī (277/ 890—365/976), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibnuʿl-Anbāri—see al-Anbāri.
Ibn al-ʿArabi—al-Qāḍi, Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh b. Muḥammad al-Undulusi al-Ashʾari al-Māliki (468/1076—543/1148), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn al-ʿArabi al-Ḥātimi—Muḥyi ʿd-Dīn, Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ṭāʾi al-Undulusi (560/1165—638/1240), the famous Sūfī Imam.
Ibn ʿAsākir—Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. Hibatillāh al-Dimashqi al-Shāfiʿī (499/1105—571/1176), the famous Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
Ibn Ashtah—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Iṣfahānī (?—360/ 971), the Sunnī commentator.
Ibn al-ʿAṣṣār—Abūʿl-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. ʿAbdiʿr-Raḥīm b. al-Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Baghdādī (508/1114—576/1180), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Aʿtham—Abū Muḥammad, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Kūfī (?—314/927), the historian.
Ibn al-Athīr—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿIz al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Jazari al-Shāfiʿī (555/1160—630/1233), the famous Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
Ibn al-Athīr—Abū al-Saʿādāt, Majd al-Dīn, al-Mubarak b. Muḥammad al-Jazari al-Shāfiʿī (544/1149—606/1210), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Dimashqī—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdullāh b. ʿAṭiyyah (?—383/993), the Sunnī commentator.
Ibn ʿAṭiyyah al-Gharnāṭi—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdu al-Ḥaqq b. Ghālib al-Muḥāribi al-Mālikī (481/1088—542/1148), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn ʿAyyash al-Jawhari—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. ʿUbaydillāh (?—401/1011), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Babawayh—see al-Ṣadūq.
Ibn Babawayh, Abū al-Ḥasan—ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn b. Mūsā al-Qummi (c. 260/874-329/941), (the father of al-Ṣadūq), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn al-Barrāj—al-Qāḍī, Saʿd al-Dīn, ʿAbdul-ʿAzīz b. Niḥrīr b. ʿAbdil-ʿAzīz al-Ṭarābulusi (c. 399/1008—481/1088), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Baṭṭah—Abū ʿAbdillāh, ʿUbaydullāh b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Hamdan al-ʿUkbari al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbali (304/917—387/997), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn al-Biṭrīq—Abūʿl-Ḥusayn, Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Ḥusayn al-Asadi al-Ḥillī (523/1129—600/1204), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn al-Daylami—see al-Daylami, Abū Manṣūr.
Ibn Dhakwan—Abū ʿAmr, ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Bashīr al-Fihrī al-Dimashqī (173/789—242/857), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Ibn al-Durays—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Ayyūb b. Yaḥyā al-Bajali al-Rāzī (200/815—294/906), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Faḍḍāl—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Kūfī (c. 206/821—c. 280/893), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn Faḍḍāl—Abū ʿl-Ḥusayn, Aḥmad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-Kūfī (?--260/874), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn Faḍḍāl—Abū Muḥammad, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Kūfī (?—224/839), the reliable Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn Fahad—Abū ʿl-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Asadi al-Ḥillī (756/ 1355—841/1437), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalāni—Shihābū al-Dīn, Abū al-Faḍl, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī (773/1372—852/1449), the famous Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
Ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī—Abū al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Anṣāri al-Shāfiʿī (909/1503—973/1566), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Ḥamzah—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ḥamzah al-Ṭūsī al-Ḥāʾiri (?—a.d. 560/1165), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Ḥanbal—see Aḥmad.
Ibn Ḥasnun—Abū Aḥmad, ʿAbdullāh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Sāmarri al-Miṣri (295/908—386/996), the Sunnī commentator.
Ibn al-Ḥaṣṣār—ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Khazrajī al-Fāsi al-Māliki (?—611/1214), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Ḥibbān—Abū Ḥātim, Muḥammad b. Hibban al-Tamimi al-Busti al-Shāfiʿī (270/884—354/965), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Hishām—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdu al-Malik b. Hishām al-Baṣrī (?—213/828), the famous Sunnī historian.
Ibn Idrīs—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Manṣūr b. Aḥmad al-ʿAjlī al-Ḥillī (543/1148—598/1202), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Isḥāq—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Yasār al-Muṭṭalibī al-Madani (c. 85/704—151/768), the famous historian and traditionalist.
Ibn Jammāz—Abū al-Rabīʾ, Sulaymān b. Muslim al-Zuhri al-Madani (?—a.d. 170/787), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Ibn Jarir al-Imami—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Jarīr b. Rustam al-Āmulī al-Ṭabarī (fl. 4th/ 10th c.), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn al-Jawzī—Abū al-Faraj, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbali (508/1114—597/1202), the famous Ḥanbalite scholar.
Ibn Jinnī—Abū al-Fatḥ, ʿUthmān b. Jinnī al-Mawṣili al-Baghdādī (328/ 940—392/1002), the famous scholar.
Ibn al-Junayd—Abū ʿAlī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. al-Junayd, al-Kātib al-Iskafi al-Baghdādī (?—381/991), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Jurayj—Abū al-Walīd, ʿAbdu al-Malik b. ʿAbdi al-ʿAzīz al-Makkī (80/699—150/767), the famous commentator and traditionalist.
Ibn Kathīr—ʿImāduʿd-Dīn, Abū ʿl-Fidaʾ, Ismāʿīl b. ʿUmar al-Dimashqial-Shāfiʿī (701/1302—774/1373), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Kathīr al-Makki—ʿAbdullāh b. Kathir al-Dārī (45/665—120/738), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
Ibn Khālawayh—Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ḥusayn b. Aḥmad al-Hamadāni al-Ḥalabi (?—370/980), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Khaldūn—Abū Zayd, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Ishbīlī (732/1332—808/1406), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Ibn al-Kharāʿiṭi—see al-Kharaʿiṭi.
Ibn Khuzaymah—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Khuzaymah al-Sulamī al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (223/838—311/924), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn al-Maghāzili—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Jullābi al-Wāsiṭi al-Shāfiʿī (?—483/1090), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Mājah—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Yazīd al-Rabaʿī al-Qazwinī (209/824—273/887), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Mandah, Abū ʿAbdillāh (I)—Muḥammad b. Yaḥyā al-ʿAbdi al-Iṣfahāni al-Ḥanbali (220/835—301/914), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Mandah, Abū ʿAbdillāh (II)—Muḥammad b. Isḥāq b. Muḥammad b.Yaḥyā al-Ḥanbali (310/922—395/1005), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Mandah, Abū Zakariyyā—Yaḥya b. ʿAbdu al-Wahhāb b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Ḥanbali (434/1043—511/1118), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Manīʿ—Abū Jaʿfar, Aḥmad b. Manīʿ al-Baghawi al-Baghdādī (160/777—244/859), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Manẓūr—Abū al-Faḍl, Jamal al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Mukarram al-Ifriqī (630/1232—711/1311), the famous linguist.
Ibn Marduwayh—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. Mūsā al-Iṣfahānī (323/935—410/ 1019), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
Ibn Maysarah—Abū al-Walīd, Hisham b. ʿAmmār b. Nuṣayr al-Sulamī al-Dimashqi (153/770—245/859), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an and traditionalist.
Ibn Maytham—Kamāl al-Dīn, Maytham b. ʿAlī b. Maytham al-Baḥrānī (636/1238—699/1299), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Miqsam—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Yaʿqūb al-ʿAṭṭār al-Baghdādī (265/878—354/965), the Sunnī commentator.
Ibn Miskūyah—Abū ʿAlī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb (c. 325/937—421/1030), the famous scholar and historian.
Ibn al-Mubārak—Abū ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān, ʿAbdullāh b. al-Mubārak b. Wāḍiḥ al-Ḥanẓali al-Marwazī (118/736—181/797), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn al-Munādī—Abū al-Ḥusayn, Aḥmad b. Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbalī (256/871—336/947), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn al-Mundhir—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Naysābūrī al-Makkī (242/858—319/931), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn al-Muṭahhar—Raḍiyy al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. Yūsuf b. ʿAlī al-Asadi al-Ḥillī (635/1238—710/1310), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn al-Najjār—Muḥibb al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd b. al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī (578/1183—643/1245), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Qāniʾ—Abū al-Ḥusayn, ʿAbdu al-Bāqī b. Qāniʾ b. Marzūq al-Umawī al-Baghdādī (265/879—351/962), the famous traditionalist.
Ibn al-Qayyim—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Shams al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Abi Bakr, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah al-Dimashqi (691/1292—751/1350), the student of Ibn Taymiyyah, Taqiyy al-Dīn.
Ibn Qūlawayh—Abū al-Qāsim, Jaʿfar b. Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar b. Mūsā al-Qummi (c. 285/898—368/979), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Qutaybah—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdillāh b. Muslim al-Dīnawarī (213/828—276/889), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Rāhwayh—Abū Yaʾqūb, Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Makhlad al-Ḥanẓali al-Marwazī (161/778—238/853), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn al-Rāzī—Abū Muḥammad, Jaʿfar b. Aḥmad al-Qummī (fl. 4th/10th c.), the Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn al-Ṣabbāgh—Nur al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Safāqisī al-Mālikī (784/1383—855/1451), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Saʿd—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Saʿd al-Baghdādī, Kātibul-Wāqidī (168/784—230/845), the famous Sunnī historian.
Ibn Saʿīd al-Ḥillī—Abū Zakariyyā, Yaḥya b. Aḥmad b. Yaḥya al-Ḥudhali (601/1205—690/1291), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, Fatḥ al-Dīn—Abū al-Fatḥ, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Yaʿmuri, al-Ishbīlī, al-Shāfiʿī (671/1273—734/1334), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Shāhīn—Abū Ḥafṣ, ʿUmar b. Aḥmad b. ʿUthmān al-Baghdādī (297/ 909—385/995), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Shahrāshūb—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Sārawī al-Māzandarānī (489/1096—588/1192), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn al-Shaykh—Abū ʿAlī, al-Ḥasan b. (Shaykh al-Ṭaʿifah) Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Tūsī (?—c. 515/1121), the Imamite scholar.
Ibn Shuʿbah—Abū Muḥammad, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Shuʿbah al-Ḥarrāni (?—4th/11th c.), the Imamite traditionalist.
Ibn al-Sikkīt—Abū Yūsuf, Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq al-Baghdādī (186/802—244/ 858), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn al-Sunnī—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al-Dīnawari (284/897—364/974), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Ṭalḥah—Kamal al-Dīn, Abū Sālim, Muḥammad b. Ṭalḥah b. Muḥammad al-ʿAdawi al-Shāfiʿī (582/1186—652/1254), the Sunnī scholar.
Ibn Ṭāwūs—Ghiyath al-Dīn, Abū al-Muẓaffar, ʿAbdu al-Karīm b. Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥasani al-Ḥillī (648/1250—693/1294), the great Imamite scholar.
Ibn Ṭāwūs—Jamal al-Dīn, Abū ʿl-Faḍāʿil, Aḥmad b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar al Ḥasani al-Ḥillī (c. 592/1196—673/1274), the great Imamite scholar.
Ibn Ṭāwūs—Raḍiyy al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAlī b. Mūsā b. Jaʿfar al Ḥasani al-Ḥillī (589/1193—664/1266), the famous Imamite scholar.
Ibn Taymiyyah—Majd al-Dīn, Abū al-Barakāt, ʿAbdu al-Salām b. ʿAbdi llah al-Ḥarrani al-Ḥanbali (590/1194—653/1255), the famous Hanbalite scholar.
Ibn Taymiyyah—Taqiyy al-Dīn, Abū ʿl-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. ʿAbdu al-Halim b. ʿAbdu al-Salim al-Ḥarrani al-Ḥanbali (661/1263—728/1328), the famous Ḥanbalite scholar.
Ibn ʿUqdah—Abū al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Saʿīd al-Kūfī (250/ 864—332/944), the famous Shīʿite traditionalist.
Ibn ʿUyaynah—Abū Muḥammad, Sufyān b. ʿUyaynah b. Maymūn al-Hilāli al-Kūfī (107/725—198/814), the famous traditionalist.
Ibn Wāḍiḥ—see al-Yaʾqūbi.
Ibn Wahb al-Miṣrī—Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbdullāh b. Wahb b. Muslim al-Fihri al-Māliki (125/743—197/813), the famous Mālikite scholar.
Ibn Zayd—ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Zayd b. Aslam al-ʿAdawī al-Madani (?—182/798), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Ibn Zuhrāh—ʿIzz al-Dīn, Abū al-Makārim, Ḥamzah b. ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥalabi (511/1117—585/1189), the great Imamite scholar.
Idrīs Ibn ʿAbdi al-Karīm—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥaddad al-Baghdādī (199/815— 292/905), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Ījī al-Qāḍi ʿAḍud al-Dīn, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdi al-Ghaffār al-Shīrāzi al-Ashʿari al-Shāfiʿī (708/1308—756/1355), the famous Ashʿarite scholar.
ʿIkrimah b. ʿAbdillāh, Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Barbarī (25/645—105/723), the Khārijite tābiʿī scholar.
ʿImād al-Dīn al-Ṭabari—Muḥammad b. Abi al-Qāsim, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Amuli (?—c. 525/1131), the Imamite traditionalist.
Imam al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī—Diyā ʿ al-Dīn, Abū al-Maʿāli, ʿAbdu al-Malik b. ʿAbdillāh b. ʿAbdi al-Malik al-Naysābūrī al-Ashʿari al-Shāfiʿī (419/1028—478/1085), the famous Ashʿarite scholar.
al-Irbilī—Bahā ʿal-Dīn, ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā b. Abi ʿl-Faṭh (625/1228—692/ 1293), the famous Imamite scholar.
ʿĪsā b. Wardān, Abū ʿl-Ḥārith al-Ḥadhdhāʾ al-Madani (?—c. 160/777), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Iṣfahānī—see al-Rāghib.
al-Iṣfahānī—Abū Muslim, Muḥammad b. Baḥr (254/868—322/934), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar and commentator.
al-Iṣfahānī al-Madīnī—Abū Mūsā, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. Aḥmad al-Shafiʿī (501/1108—581/1185), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Iṣfahānī al-Malanjī—Abū Masʿūd, Sulaymān b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad (397/1007—486/1093), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Iṣfahāni al-Taymī—Qawam al-Dīn, Abūʿl-Qāsim, Ismāʿīl b. Muḥammad b. al-Faḍl al-Qurashī al-Shāfiʿī (457/1065—535/1141), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿUthmān—Abū Yaʾqūb al-Marwazi al-Baghdādī (?—286/899), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Istarabādī—Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm (?—1028/1619), the Imamite scholar.
Jābir b. Yazīd b. al-Ḥārith—Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Juʿfi al-Kūfī (?—128/745), the Imamite traditionalist.
al-Jāḥiẓ—Abū ʿUthmān, ʿAmr b. Baḥr al-Baṣrī (163/780—255/869), the famous Muʿtazilite man of letters.
al-Jaṣṣaṣ—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī al-Rāzī al-Ḥanafī (305/917—370/ 980), the Ḥanafite scholar.
al-Jawharī—Abū Isḥāq, Ibrāhīm b. Saʿīd al-Baghdādī al-Ḥanbali (? 247/861), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Jawhari—Abū Naṣr, Ismāʿīl b. Ḥammād al-Naysābūrī (?—393/ 1003), the famous linguist.
al-Jazaʾirī—al-Shakh Aḥmad b. Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdi al-Nabi al-Najafi (?—1151/1738), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Jazāʾirī—Shams al-Dīn, Abū al-Khayr, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Umari al-Shāfiʿī (751/1350—833/1429), the famous Sunnī traditionalist and reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Jubbāʿī—Abū ʿAlī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdi al-Wahhāb al-Baṣrī (235/ 849—303/916), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
al-Jubbāʿī—Abū Hāshim, ʿAbdu al-Salām b. Muḥammad al-Baṣrī (247/ 861—321/933), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
al-Kaʿbī al-Balkhī—Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd al-Muʾtazilī al-Ḥanafī (273/886—319/931), the famous Muʾtazilite scholar.
al-Kalbī—Abū al-Mundhir, Hishām b. Muḥammad al-Kūfī (?—204/ 819), the famous Imamite historian and traditionalist.
al-Kalbī—Abū al-Naḍr, Muḥammad b. al-Sāʿib al-Kūfī (?—146/763), the famous Imamite historian and traditionalist.
al-Karājikī—Abū al-Fatḥ, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān (c. 369/950—449/1057), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Kāshānī—Fatḥullāh b. Shukrillāh (?—988/1580), the Imamite scholar and commentator.
Khalaf b. Hishām—Abū Muḥammad al-Bazzār al-Asadī al-Baghdādī (150/ 767—229/844), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Khallād b. Khālid—Abū ʿIsā, al-Ṣayrafī al-Shaybāni al-Kūfī (?—220/835), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Kharaʿiṭī—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Sāmarrī (240/854—327/ 938), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Kharkūshī—Abū Saʿīd, ʿAbduʿl-Malik b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm
al-Naysābūri (?—407/1016), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Thābit al-Shāfiʿī (392/1002—463/1072), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Khaṭīb al-Khwārazmī—Abūʿl-Muʾayyad, al-Muwaffaq b. Aḥmad
al-Ḥanafī. (484/1091—568/1172), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Khaṭṭābī—Abū Sulaymān, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Busti (319/931— 388/998), the Sunnī scholar.
Khaythamah b. Sulaymān—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qurashi al-Ṭarābulusī (250/ 864—343/955), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Khāzin—ʿAla al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Baghdādī al-Shāfiʿī (678/1280—741/1341), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Kisāʾī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Ḥamzah b. ʿAbdillāh al-Asadi al-Kūfī (119/737—189/805), the famous scholar and reciter of the Qur’an.
al-Kishshi—Abū ʿAmr, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbdi al-ʿAzīz (?—c. 340/951), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Kulaynī—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. Yaʾqūb al-Rāzī (?—328/9 = 940/1), the celebrated Imamite traditionalist.
al-Lālikāʿi—Abū al-Qāsim, Hibatullāh b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Manṣūr al-Ṭabari al-Shāfiʿī (?—418/1027), the Shāfiʿite scholar.
Layth b. Khālid—Abū al-Ḥārith. al-Baghdādī (?—240/854), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Madāʿinī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Baṣrī (135/752—225/840), the famous historian.
al-Maḥāmilī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Ḍabbī al-Baghdādī (235/849—330/941), the famous traditionalist.
al-Majlisī (I)—Muḥammad Taqī b. Maqṣūd ʿAlī (1003/1595—1070/1660), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Majlisī (II)—Muḥammad Bāqir b. Muḥammad Taqī, al-ʿAllāmah al Majlisī (1037/1628—1110/1699), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
Mālik b. Anas—Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Aṣbaḥī al-Madanī (93/712—179/795), the Mālikite Imam.
al-Maqrīzī—Taqqiy al-Dīn, Abū al-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdi al-Qādir al-Miṣri, al-Ḥanafī (769/1367—845/1441), the famous historian.
al-Marwazī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Naṣr (202/817—294/906), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Marzubānī—Abū Abdillah, Muḥammad b. ʿImrān b. Mūsā al-Baghdādī (297/910—384/994), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Māwardī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. Ḥabīb al-Baṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (364/974—450/1058), the Sunnī scholar.
Muʿāwiyah b. ʿAmmār—Abū al-Qāsim al-Duhnī al-Kūfī (100/974—175/791), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Mubarrad—Abū al-ʿAbbās, Muḥammad b. Yazīd b. ʿAbdi al-Akbar al-Azdī al-Baṣrī (210/826—286/899), the famous linguist and historian.
al-Mufīd—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Nuʾmān, Ibn al-Muʿallim al-Mufīd al-ʿUkbarī al-Baghdādī (336/948—413/ 1022), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
Muḥammad ʿAbduh (al-Shaykh) b. Ḥasan Khayrillāh (1266/1850—1323/1905), the famous Egyptian scholar.
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī (?—2nd half of the 7th/ 13th c.).
Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kūfī al-Miṣrī (?—fl. 313/925), the Imamite traditionalist.
Muḥammad b. Muslim—Abū Jaʿfar al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (c. 80/723—150/767),the celebrated Imamite scholar and traditionalist.
Muḥammad b. Naṣr—Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Marwazi (202/817—294/906), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Muḥaqqīq al-Ardabīlī—al-Shaykh Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Najafī (c. 910/1505—993/1585), the great Imamite scholar.
al-Muḥaqqiq al-Ḥillī—Najm al-Dīn, Abū al-Qāsim, Jaʿfar b. al-Ḥasan b. Yaḥya b. al-Ḥasan b. Saʿīd al-Ḥudhalī (602/1206—676/1277), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Muḥaqqiq al-Karakī—Nūr al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. ʿAbdi al-ʿĀli al-ʿĀmilī (c. 868/1463—940/1534), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Muḥaqqiq al-Khwānsāri—al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Husyan (1016/1608—1098/1687), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Muḥaqqiq al-Sabzawārī—Muḥammad Bāqir b. Muḥammad Muʾmin (c. 1000/1592—1090/1679), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Muḥibb al-Ṭabari—Muḥibb al-Dīn, Abū ʿl-ʿAbbās, Aḥmad b. ʿAbdillāh b. Muḥammad al-Makki al-Shāfiʿī (615/1218—694/1295), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Muḥsin al-Fayḍ—see al-Fayḍ
Mujāhīd b. Jabr—Abū ʿl-Ḥajjāj al-Makkī (21/642—104/722), the famous commentator).
al-Mundhirī—Zakiyy al-Dīn, Abū Muḥammad, ʿAbduʿl-ʿAẓim b. ʿAbdi ʿl-Qawī al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (581/1185—656/1258), the famous traditionalist.
Muqātil b. Ḥayyān—Abū Biṣṭām al-Nabaṭi al-Balkhi (?—c. 150/767), the Sunnī commentator.
Muqātil b. Sulaymān—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Azdī al-Balkhī (?—150/767), the famous Sunnī commentator.
al-Murtaḍā—al-Sharīf, Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, ʿAlam al-Hudā, al-Mūsāwī (355/966—436/1044), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Murtaḍā al-Zabīdī—Abū al-Fayḍ, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī (1145/1732—1205/1791), the famous linguist.
Mūsā b. ʿUqbah—Abū Muḥammad al-Qurashī al-Asadī (?—141/758), the Sunnī historian.
Musaddad b. Musarhad b. Musarbal—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Asadi al-Baṣrī (?—228/843), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
Muslim—Abū al-Ḥusayn, Muslim b. al-Hajjāj al-Qushayrī al-Naysābūrī (204/820—261/1875), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Muttaqī al-Hindī—ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn, ʿAlī b. Ḥusami al-Dīn al-Burhānfūrī (885/1480—975/1567), the Sunnī scholar.
Nāfiʿ b. ʿAbdi al-Raḥmān b. Abi Nuʿaym al-Laythī al-Madanī (?—169/785), one of the seven reciters of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Naḥḥās—Abū Jaʿfar, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl (?—338/ 950), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Najāshī—Abū ʿl-Abbās, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. al-ʿAbbās al-Asadi
al-Baghdādī (372/982—450/1058), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Najjād—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. Salmān b. al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī al Ḥanbalī (253/867—348/960), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Naqqāsh—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad al-Mawṣilī al-Shāfiʿī (266/880—351/962), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Nasafi—Abū al-Barakāt, ʿAbdullāh b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd al-Ḥanafī (?—710/1310), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Nasāʿi—Abū ʿAbdi al-Raḥmān, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. Shuʿayb (215/830—303/915), the famous Shāfiʿite traditionalist.
Naṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī—Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan (597/ 1201—672/1274), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
(al-Sayyid) Nāṣir Ḥusayn b. Ḥāmid Ḥusayn al-Mūsāwi al-Kantūrī (1284/ 1867—1361/1943), the famous Imamite scholar.
Nasr b. Muzāḥim—Abū al-Faḍl, al-Minqārī al-Kūfī (c. 120/738—212/ 827), the famous Shiʿite historian.
al-Nawawī—Muḥyi al-Dīn, Abū Zakariyyā, Yaḥyā b. Sharaf al-Dimashqī al-Shafiʿī (631/1233—676/1277), the famous Sunnī scholar. al-Nawbakhtī—Abū Muḥammad, al-Ḥasan b. Mūsā b. al-Ḥasan al-Baghdādī (?—c. 310/922), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Nawbakhtī—Abū Sahl, Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. Isḥāq al-Baghdādī (237/851—311/923), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Naysābūrī al-Aʿraj—Niẓām al-Dīn, al-Ḥasan b. Muḥammad b. al Ḥusayn al-Qummi (?—a.d. 850/1446), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Naẓẓām—Abū Isḥāq, Ibrāhīm b. Sayyār al-Baṣrī (c. 160/776—231/845), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād—Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Marwazī (?—229/844), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Nuʾmānī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Jaʿfar, Ibn Abi Zaynab al-Kātib (?—c. 360/971), the Imamite scholar.
al-Nūrī—al-Mīrzā Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad Taqī al-Ṭabarsī (1254/1838—1320/1875), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Qāḍī ʿAbdi al-Jabbār b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdu al-Jabbār al-Hamadānī al-Muʿtazilī al-Shāfiʿī (320/932—415/1025), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar.
al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ b. Mūsā b. ʿIyāḍ—Abū al-Faḍl, al-Yaḥṣabī al-Sabtī al-Mālikī (476/1083—544/1149), the famous Mālikite scholar.
Qālūm—Abū Mūsā, ʿĪsā b. Mināʾ b. Wardān al-Madanī (220/738—220/ 835), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Quḍāʾī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Salāmah b. Jaʿfar al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (?—454/1062), the Sunnī scholar.
Qatādah b. Diʿāmah—Abū al-Khaṭṭāb al-Sadūsī al-Baṣrī (61/680—118/730, the famous commentator and traditionalist.
al-Qummī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Ibrāhīm b. Hāshim (?—fl. 307/920), the Imamite traditionalist.
Qunbul—Abū ʿUmar, Muḥammad b. ʿAbdi al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad al-Makhzūmī al-Makkī (195/810—291/904), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Qundūzī—Sulaymān b. Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Ḥanafī (1220/1805—1294/1877), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Qurṭubi—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abi Bakr al-Anṣāri al-Mālikī (?—671/1273), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Qushayrī—Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAbduʿl-Karīm b. Hawāzim al-Naysābūrī al-Ashʿari al-Shāfiʾī (376/986—465/1072), the Sunnī Sūfī scholar.
al-Raḍī—Abū al-Ḥasan, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn, al-Sharīf al-Raḍī al-Mūsāwi (359/970—406/1015), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Rāghib—Abū al-Qāsim, al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. al-Mufaḍḍāl al-Iṣfahānī (?—502/1108), the Ḥanafite scholar.
Rashīd Riḍā Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā b. ʿAlī Riḍā al-Tarābulusī al-Miṣrī (1282/1865—1354/1935), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Rāwandī—Quṭb al-Dīn, Saʿīd b. Hibatillāh al-Kāshānī (?—573/1187), the famous Imamite scholar.
Rawḥ b. ʿAbdi al-Muʾmin—Abūʾl-Ḥasan al-Hudhalī al-Baṣrī (?—234/848), the famous recite of the Holy Qur’an.
Razīn b. Muʿāwiyah b. ʿAmmār—Abū al-Ḥasan al-ʿAbdarī al-Saraqasṭī al-Mālikī (?—535/1140), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Rummānī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā al-Baghdādī (296/908—384/ 994), the famous Muʿtazilite scholar and commentator.
Ruways—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. al-Mutawakkil al-Luʿluʿī al-Baṣrī (?—238/853), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Sadr al-Mutaʿallihīn—Ṣadr al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Yaḥyā al-Qawāmī al-Shīrāzī (979/1571—1050/1640), the celebrate Imamite philosopher.
al-Ṣadūq—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn, Ibn Bābawayh al-Qummī (c. 306/919—381/991), the celebrated Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ṣaffār—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. Farrūkh al-Qummī (?—290/903), the Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ṣafwānī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. ʿAbdillāh al-Quḍāʿī (?—a.d. 352/963), the Imamite scholar.
Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā—Abū Muḥammad al-Bajali al-Kūfī, Bayyaʿuʿs-Sabin (?—210/825), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
Ṣahib al-Maʿālim—Abū Manṣūr, al-Ḥasan b. Zayn al-Dīn al-ʿĀmilī (959/1552—1011/1602), the famous Imamite scholar.
Saʿīd b. Jubayr—Abū ʿAbdillāh al-Asadī al-Kūfī (45/665—95/714), the famous tābiʿī scholar.
Saʿīd b. al-Manṣūr—Ibn Shuʿbah, Abū ʿUthmān al-Marwazi (c. 152/969—227/842), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab b. Ḥazn, Abū Muḥammad al-Makhzūmī al-Madanī (13/634—94/713), the famous tābiʿī scholar.
Sallār—Abū Yaʿlā, Sallār (Sālār) b. ʿAbdi ʿl-ʿAzīz al-Daylamī (?—448/1056), the famous Imamite scholar.
al-Samʿānī—Abū Saʿd, ʿAbdu al-Karīm b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī (506/1113—562/1166), the famous Sunnī historian and traditionalist.
al-Sammān—Abū Saʿd, Ismāʿīl b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥusayn al-Rāzī (363/974— 447/1055), the famous Imamite scholar.
Sammūyah—Abū Bishr, Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdillāh b. Masʿūd al-ʿAbdī al-Iṣfahānī (?—267/880), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Shaʿbī—Abū ʿAmr, ʿĀmir b. Sharāḥil al-Ḥimyarī (19/649—103/ 721), the famous tābiʿī traditionalist.
al-Shāfiʿī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Idrīs (150/767—204/820), the Shāfiʿite Imam.
al-Shahīd al-Awwal—Shams al-Dīn, Muḥammad b. Makkī b. Muḥammad al-Jazzinī al-ʿĀmilī (734/1333—786/1384), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Shahīd al-Thānī—Zayn al-Dīn b. ʿAlī b. Aḥmad al-Jabaʿī al-ʿĀmilī (911/1505—966/1559), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
Sharaf al-Dīn—al-Sayyid ʿAbdu al-Ḥusayn b. Yūsuf al-Mūsāwi al-ʿĀmilī (1290/1873—1377/1957), the famous Imamite scholar.
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Istarabādī—al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Gharawi (an Najafi) (?—2nd half of 10th/16th c.), the Imamite scholar.
al-Sharif al-Jurjāni—ʿAlī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Ashʿari al-Ḥanafī (740/1340—816/1413), the famous Ashʿarite scholar.
al-Shāshī—Abū Saʿīd, al-Haytham b. Kulayb b. Shurayḥ (?—335/ 946), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Sharīf al-Murtadā—see al-Murtaḍā.
al-Sharīf al-Raḍī—see al-Raḍī.
al-Shawkānī—Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Yamānī (1173/ 1760—1250/1834), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Shaykh—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī, Shaykh al-Ṭaʿifah, al-Ṭūsī (385/995—460/1067), the celebrated Imamite scholar.
al-Shiblanji—Muʾmin b. Ḥasan b. Muʾmin al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (1252/1836—1322/1904), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Shīrāzī—Abū Bakr, Aḥmad b. ʿAbdi al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad (?—407/1017), the famous Sunnī scholar.
Shuʿbah b. ʿAyyāsh b. Sālim—Abū Bakr al-Azdī al-Khayyāṭ al-Kūfī (95/714—193/809), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Shubbar—al-Sayyid ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad Riḍā al-Ḥusaynī (1188/ 1774—1242/1827), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
Sibṭ b. al-Jawzī—Shams al-Dīn, Abū al-Muẓẓafar, Yūsuf b. Qizāʿughlī b. ʿAbdillāh al-Ḥanafī (581/1185—654/1256), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Silafī—Abū Ṭāhir, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Iṣfahānī (475/1082—576/ 1180), the Sunnī scholar.
Simāk b. Ḥarb b. Aws—Abū al-Mughīrah al-Dhuhlī al-Kūfī (?—123/741), the tābiʿī traditionalist.
al-Subkī, Tāj al-Dīn—Abū Naṣr, ʿAbdu al-Wahhāb b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbdi al-Kāfī al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (727/1327—771/1370), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Subkī, Taqiyy al-Dīn—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. ʿAbdi al-Kafi al-Anṣāri al-Shāfiʿī (683/1284—756/1355), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Suddī (al-Kabīr)—Ismāʿīl b. ʿAbdi al-Raḥmān al-Kūfī (?—128/745), the commentator.
Sulaym b. Qays al-Hilālī (?—c. 90/709), the Imamite tābiʿī traditionalist.
Sunayd b. Dāwūd—Abū ʿAlī al-Muḥtasib al-Miṣṣīṣī (?—226/841), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
al-Sūsī—Abū Shuʿayb, Sāliḥ b. Ziyād al-Raqqī (173/790—261/874), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Suyūṭi—Jalāl al-Dīn, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Abī Bakr b. Muḥammad al-Shāfiʿī (849/1445—911/1505), the famous Shāfiʿite scholar.
al-Ṭabarānī—Abū al-Qāsim, Sulaymān b. Aḥmad b. Ayyūb (260/873—360/971), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ṭabrisī—Abū ʿAlī, al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Faḍl (?—548/1153), the Imamite commentator.
al-Ṭabrisī—Abū al-Faḍl, ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan b. al-Faḍl (6th/12th c.), the Imamite scholar.
al-Ṭabrisī—Abū Manṣūr, Aḥmad b. ʿAlī (?—620/1223), the Imamite traditionalist.
al-Ṭabrisī—Abū Naṣr, al-Ḥasan b. al-Faḍl b. al-Ḥasan (?—6th/12th c.), the Imamite traditionalist.
al-Taftāzānī—Saʿd al-Dīn, Masʿūd b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbdillāh al-Ashʿari al-Shāfiʿī (712/1312—793/1390), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Ṭahāwī—Abū Jaʿfar, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Salāmah al-Miṣrī al-Ḥanafī (239/853—321/933), the Ḥanafite scholar.
Ṭanṭāwī b. Jawharī al-Miṣrī (1287/1870—1358/1940), the Sunnī Egyptian commentator.
al-Ṭayālisī—see Abū Dāwūd al-Ṭayālisī.
al-Ṭayyibī—Sharaf al-Dīn, al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdillāh (? 743/1342), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Thaʿlabī—Abū Isḥāq, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm (?—427/ 1035), the Sunnī commentator.
al-Thawrī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Sufyān b. Saʿīd b. Masruq al-Kūfī (97/716—161/778), the famous traditionalist.
al-Thumālī—Abū Ḥamzah, Thābit b. Dīnār al-Azdī al-Kūfī (?—150/ 767), the famous Imamite traditionalist.
al-Tirmidhi—Abū ʿIsa, Muḥammad b. ʿĪsā al-Sulami (209/824—279/ 892), the famous Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Ṭurayḥī—Fakhr al-Dīn b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Ṭurayḥ al-Najafī (979/1571—1087/1676), the great Imamite scholar.
al-Ṭūsī—see al-Shaykh.
al-ʿUqaylī—Abū Jaʿfar, Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Mūsā al-Makkī (?—322/934), the Sunnī traditionalist.
al-Wāḥidī—Abū al-Ḥasan, ʿAlī b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Naysābūrī al-Shāfiʿī (?—468/1076), the Sunnī commentator.
Wakīʿ—Abū Bakr, Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. Ḥayyān al-Ḍabbī (?—306/918), the Sunnī traditionalist.
Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ—Abū Sufyān al-Ruʿāsī al-Kūfī (129/746—197/812), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
al-Wāqidī—Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. ʿUmar al-Sahmī al-Madanī (130/747—207/823), the famous historian.
Warrām b. Abī Firās al-Ḥillī (?—605/1208), the Imamite scholar.
Warsh—ʿUthmān b. Saʿīd b. ʿAdiyy al-Miṣrī (110/728—197/812), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Wāṣil b. ʿAṭāʾ—Abū Ḥudhayfah al-Ghazzāl al-Baṣrī (80/699—131/748), the Muʿtazilite Imam.
Yaḥyā al-Baḥrānī (?)
Yaḥyā b. Sallām b. Abi Thaʿlabah al-Taymī al-Baṣrī (124/742—200/815), the Sunnī commentator and traditionalist.
Yaʿqūb b. Isḥāq b. Zayd—Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥaḍramī al-Baṣrī (117/ 735—205/821), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Yaʿqūbī, Ibn Wāḍiḥ—Aḥmad b. Isḥāq (?—a.d.292/905), the famous historian.
Yazīd b. al-Qaʿgāʾ—Abū Jaʿfar al-Makhzūmī al-Madanī (?—132/750), the famous reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
al-Yazīdī—Abū Muḥammad, Yaḥyā b. al-Mubārak b. al-Mughīrah al-ʿAdawī al-Baṣrī (138/755—202/818), the famous linguist and reciter of the Holy Qur’an.
Yūnus b. ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān—Abū Muḥammad al-Yaqṭīnī al-Baghdādī (c. 125/742—208/823-824), the famous Imamite scholar and traditionalist.
al-Zajjāj—Abū Isḥāq, Ibrāhīm b. al-Sarī b. Sahl al-Baghdādī (241/855—311/923), the famous linguist.
al-Zajjaji—Abū al-Qāsim, ʿAbdu al-Raḥmān b. Isḥāq al-Nahāwandī (?—337/949), the famous scholar.
al-Zamakhsharī—Abū al-Qāsim, Jārullāh, Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar b. Muḥammad al-Muʿ tazilī al-Ḥanafī (467/1075—538/1144), the Sunnī scholar.
al-Zarkashī—Badr al-Dīn, Abū ʿAbdillāh, Muḥammad b. Bahādur b. ʿAbdillāh al-Miṣrī al-Shāfiʿī (745/1344—794/1392), the famous Sunnī scholar.
al-Zubayr b. Bakkār b. ʿAbdillāh al-Qurashī al-Zubayrī (172/788—256/870), the famous Sunnī historian.
Zurārah b. Aʿyan—Abū al-Ḥasan al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī (c. 60/680—150/767), the celebrated Imamite scholar and traditionalist.
al-Zurqānī—ʿAbdu al-Bāqi b. Yūsuf b. Aḥmad al-Mālikī (1020/1611—1099/1688), the famous Mālikite scholar.