Atharis or Ahl al-Hadith are those who adhere to the creed of

Athari Atharī theology or Atharism ( ar, الأثرية: / , " archeological"), otherwise referred to as Traditionalist theology or Scripturalist theology, is one of the main Sunni schools of Islamic theology. It emerged as an Islamic scholarly mov ...

theology, which originated in the 8th century CE from the Hanbali scholarly circles of Ahl al-Hadith. The name derives from "tradition" in its technical sense as a translation of the Arabic word "Athar". The Athari school is one of three schools of doctrine in Islam alongside the Ash'ari creed and the Maturidi creed. Atharis are against the usage of metaphorical interpretation such as regarding the revealed attributes of God, and they do not make attempts to conceptualize the meanings of the Quran in a rational manner. The Atharis became affiliated with the Hanbalis throughout the years as their doctrine originated from there, but they are also affiliated with Wahhabism and the

Salafi The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generat ...

movement.

Hanbalis

* Ahmad ibn Hanbal *

Ibn Qudama Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisī Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad ( ar, ابن قدامة المقدسي موفق الدين ابو محمد عبد الله بن احمد بن محمد ; 1147 - 7 July 1223), often re ...

* Abu Ya'la ibn al-Farra' *

Ibn Taymiyya Ibn Taymiyyah (January 22, 1263 – September 26, 1328; ar, ابن تيمية), birth name Taqī ad-Dīn ʾAḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd al-Salām al-Numayrī al-Ḥarrānī ( ar, تقي الدين أحمد بن عبد الحليم � ...

* Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya * Ibn Rajab *

Abdullah Ansari Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari or Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1088) ( fa, خواجه عبدالله انصاری) also known as ''Pir-i Herat'' () "Sage of Herat", was a Muslim Sufi saint who lived in the 11th century in Herat (m ...

* Ibn Abd al-Hadi * Mansur al-Buhuti *

Abu Dawud al-Sijistani Abū Dāwūd (Dā’ūd) Sulaymān ibn al-Ash‘ath ibn Isḥāq al-Azdī al-Sijistānī ( ar, أبو داود سليمان بن الأشعث الأزدي السجستاني), commonly known simply as Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī, was a scholar o ...

Ibn Hamdan Abū Abd-Allah Najm al-Dīn Aḥmad bin Ḥamdān bin Shabīb bin Ḥamdān al-Ḥarrānī al-Ḥanbalī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله نجم الدِّين أحمد بن حمدان بن شبيب بن حمدان الحراني الحنبلي) ...

* Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab

Shafi'is

Al-Darimi Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Faḍl ibn Bahrām ibn ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Dārimī al-Tamīmī al-Samarqandī () (181–255 AH / 797–869 CE) was a Muslim scholar and Imam of Arab ancestry or Persian background. His b ...

Ibn Kathir Abū al-Fiḍā’ ‘Imād ad-Dīn Ismā‘īl ibn ‘Umar ibn Kathīr al-Qurashī al-Damishqī (Arabic: إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير القرشي الدمشقي أبو الفداء عماد; – 1373), known as Ibn Kathīr (, was ...

* Al-Dhahabi *

Ibrahim al-Kurani Burhan al-Din Ibrahim ibn Hassan ibn Shihab al-Din al-Kurani al-Madani ( ar, برهان الدين إبراهيم بن حسن بن شهاب الدين الكوراني المدني, 1023-1101 AH, or 1615-1690 CE), was a Gorani Kurdish Sufi maste ...

* Uthman ibn Sa'id al-Darimi * Ibn Khuzaymah *

Abdallah ibn al-Zubayr al-Humaydi ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Zubayr al-Ḥumaydī (died 834) was a hafiz, faqih from Shafi'i jurisprudence scholar and Shaykh of the al-Haram. He studied under Imam Shafi'i himself in his majlis. He also studied and narrated hadith from Sufyan ibn Uyaina ...

* Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi

Malikis

* Ibn 'Abd al-Barr *

Abubakar Gumi Abubakar Mahmud Gumi (7 November 1924 – 11 September 1992) was a Nigerian Islamic scholarly method, scholar and Grand Khadi of the Northern Region, Nigeria, Northern Region of Nigeria (1962–1967), a position which made him a central authority ...

* Hamad Al-Ansari

Hanafis

Ibn Abi al-Izz Sadr ad-Dīn Abu'l Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn Abī al-ʻIzz () was a 14th-century Arab Muslim scholar and jurist who served as a ''qadi'' in Damascus and Egypt. He is best known for authoring a commentary on al-Tahawi's creedal treatise ''Al-Aqidah al-T ...

* Mahmud Shukri al-Alusi

Zahiris

Dawud al-Zahiri Dāwūd bin ʿAlī bin Khalaf al-Ẓāhirī ( ar, داود بن علي بن خلف الظاهري) (c. 815–883/4 CE, 199-269/270 AH) was a Persian Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian during the Islamic Golden Age, specialized in the stud ...

* Al-Maqrizi * Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Independent

* Abu Zu'ra al-Razi * Abu Hatim al-Razi * Sayyid Abu al-Fadl Burqaʻi *

Al-Albani Muhammad b. al-Haj Nuh b. Nijati b. Adam al-Ishqudri al-Albani al-Arnauti ( ar, مُحَمَّد نَاصِر ٱلدِّيْن ٱلْأَلْبَانِي الأرنؤوط), better known simply as Al-Albani (August 16, 1914 – October 2, 1999), ...

* Ishaq ibn Rahwayh *

Abu Thawr Ibrahim ibn Khalid al-Kalbi al-Baghdadi (764–854) better known as Abu Thawr () was an early scholar of Islam. He was born in 170 AH. A personal school was built by the followers of Abu Thawr which disappeared by the 4th century Hijra. Abu Th ...

* Yahya ibn Ma'in * Ali ibn al-Madini *

Ibn al-Mundhir Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mundhir al-Naysaburi ( ar, أبو بكر محمد بن إبراهيم بن المنذر بن الجارود النيسابوري) was a student of Shafi'i scholar al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman who was in turn a direc ...

Al-Shawkani Muḥammad al-Shawkānī (1759–1834) was a prominent Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, theologian and reformer. Shawkani was one of the most influential proponents of Athari theology and is revered as one of their canonical scholars by S ...

* Siddiq Hasan Khan * Rashid Rida

References

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