Al-Daylami or al-Dailami () is a ''
nisba
The Arabic word nisba (; also transcribed as ''nisbah'' or ''nisbat'') may refer to:
* Nisba, a suffix used to form adjectives in Arabic grammar, or the adjective resulting from this formation
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'' indicating a
Dailamite
The Daylamites or Dailamites (Middle Persian: ''Daylamīgān''; fa, دیلمیان ''Deylamiyān'') were an Iranian people inhabiting the Daylam—the mountainous regions of northern Iran on the southwest coast of the Caspian Sea, now comprisin ...
or a person from
Daylam
Daylam, also known in the plural form Daylaman (and variants such as Dailam, Deylam, and Deilam), was the name of a mountainous region of inland Gilan, Iran. It was so named for its inhabitants, known as the Daylamites.
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Fayruz al-Daylami
Abū ʿAbd Allāh Fayrūz al-Daylamī ( ar, فيروز الديلمي, Persian: فیروز دیلمی, ''Firuz the Daylamite'') was a Persian companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He belonged to the descendants ('' abna) of Persians that ...
, companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
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Nafi Mawla Ibn Umar
Nafi bin Sarjis Abu Abdullah ad-Dailami ( ar, نافع بن سارجيس أبو عبد الله الديلمي), also known as Nafi` Mawla ibn `Umar ( ar, نافع مولى بن عمر), was a scholar of Fiqh jurisprudence and muhaddith from the T ...
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Tabi'un
The tābi‘ūn ( ar, اَلتَّابِعُونَ, also accusative or genitive tābi‘īn , singular ''tābi‘'' ), "followers" or "successors", are the generation of Muslims who followed the companions (''ṣaḥābah'') of the Islamic proph ...
scholar and narrator of
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
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Muta of Daylam Muta was a 7th-century Daylamite king, who fought against the Arabs
The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ar, عَرَبِيٌّ, DIN 31635: , , plural ar, عَرَب, DIN 31635: , Arabic pronunciation: ), also known as the Arab people, are ...
, king of Daylam
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John of Dailam
Saint John of Dailam ( syr, ܝܘܚܢܢ ܕܝܠܡܝܐ '), was a 7th-century East Syriac Christian saint and monk, who founded several monasteries in Mesopotamia and Persia.
According to the hagiographical ''Syriac Life of John of Dailam'', John was ...
, 7th-century East Syriac Christian saint and monk
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Al-Farra'
Al-Farrā (), he was Abū Zakarīyā Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād ibn Abd Allāh ibn Manṣūr al-Daylamī al-Farrā (), was a Daylamite scholar and the principal pupil of al-Kisā’ī (). He is the most brilliant of the Kūfan scholars. Muḥammad ib ...
, 8/9th-century Kufan scholar
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Imad al-Dawla
Ali ibn Buya ( fa, علی بن بویه, ar, علی بن بویه), commonly known by his ''laqab'' (honorific epithet) Imad al-Dawla (; c. 891/2 – December 949), was the founder of the Buyid amirate of Fars, ruling as its ''amir'' (ruler) f ...
Daylami, founder of the Buyid dynasty (r. 934–949)
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'Adud al-Dawla
Fannā (Panāh) Khusraw ( fa, پناه خسرو), better known by his laqab of ʿAḍud al-Dawla ( ar, عضد الدولة, "Pillar of the bbasidDynasty") (September 24, 936 – March 26, 983) was an emir of the Buyid dynasty, ruling from 9 ...
Daylami, emir of the Buyid dynasty (r. 949–983)
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Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami (died 1053) was an imam of the Zaidi state in Yemen who ruled from c. 1038 to 1053.
Genealogy
# Imam Ali al-Murtada
# Imam Hasan al-Mujtaba
# Zayd
# al-Hasan
# Ali
# Abdullah
# Ahmad
# Abdullah
# Muhammad
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, Zaidi imam in Yemen (r. 1038–1053)
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Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami Abu'l-Hasan Mihyar al-Daylami (died 1037) was an Arabic-language poet of Daylamite origin during the Buyid period. Mihyar's poetry was dominated by metaphor, and he wrote in various poetic genres including ghazal, riddles, as well as writing elegie ...
11th-century Arabic-language poet
*Abū Manṣūr al-Daylamī, 12th-century Islamic scholar and author of ''
Musnad al-Firdous
''Musnad al-Firdaws'' ( ar, مسند الفردوس) is a Sunni collection of Hadiths compiled by the Islamic scholar Abū Manṣūr al-Daylamī (d. 558 AH/1162 CE)
Description
It contains almost three thousand (3000) hadiths according to Maktaba ...
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Malek Deylami Molana Malek Deylami (1518 in Qazvin - 1562 in Qazvin) was a Persian scrivener and calligrapher in the 16th century. He was a skillful Nastaliq calligrapher, who wrote bold and fine script skillfully.
Biography
His first teacher was his father ...
, 16th century scrivener and calligrapher
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Kushyar Daylami
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