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Sunni Islam Sunni Islam () is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims. Its name comes from the word '' Sunnah'', referring to the tradition of Muhammad. The differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims arose from a disagre ...

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Kitāb al-Fihrist The ''Kitāb al-Fihrist'' ( ar, كتاب الفهرست) (''The Book Catalogue'') is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn Al-Nadim (c.998). It references approx. 10,000 books and 2,000 authors.''The ...

Ibn Al-Nadim Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm ( ar, ابو الفرج محمد بن إسحاق النديم), also ibn Abī Ya'qūb Isḥāq ibn Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Warrāq, and commonly known by the ''nasab'' (patronymic) Ibn al-Nadīm ...

The Qur'an and its translations (in English)

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The Meaning of the Glorious Koran ''The Meaning of the Glorious Koran'' (1930) is an English Language translation of the Quran with brief introductions to the Surahs by Marmaduke Pickthall. In 1928, Pickthall took a two-year sabbatical to complete his translation of the meaning ...

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Marmaduke Pickthall Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (born Marmaduke William Pickthall; 7 April 187519 May 1936) was an English Islamic scholar noted for his 1930 English translation of the Quran, called ''The Meaning of the Glorious Koran''. His translation of the Qur ...

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Abdullah Yusuf Ali Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, MA, LL.M, FRSA, FRSL (; ur, عبداللہ یوسف علی‎; 14 April 1872 – 10 December 1953) was an Indian-British barrister who wrote a number of books about Islam including an exegesis of the Qur'an. A sup ...

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Hadith

Six Canonical Books of Hadith Collection

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Sahih Bukhari Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...

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Muhammad al-Bukhari Muhammad ( ar, مُحَمَّد; 570 – 8 June 632 Common Era, CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Muhammad in Islam, Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet Divine inspiration, di ...

(d. 870 A.D. / 256 AH) :# ''

Sahih Muslim Sahih Muslim ( ar, صحيح مسلم, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim), group=note is a 9th-century ''hadith'' collection and a book of '' sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj (815–875). It is one of the most valued bo ...

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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Abū al-Ḥusayn ‘Asākir ad-Dīn Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshādh al-Qushayrī an-Naysābūrī ( ar, أبو الحسين عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشاذ ...

(d. 875 A.D. / 261 AH) :# '' Sunan Ibn Majah'' of

Ibn Majah Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yazīd Ibn Mājah al-Rabʿī al-Qazwīnī ( ar, ابو عبد الله محمد بن يزيد بن ماجه الربعي القزويني; (b. 209/824, d. 273/887) commonly known as Ibn Mājah, was a medieval sch ...

(d. 887 A.D. / 273 AH) :# '' Sunan Abu Dawud'' of

Abu Dawood 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 ...

(d. 889 A.D. / 275 AH) :# ''

Jami` at-Tirmidhi Jami at-Tirmidhi ( ar, جامع الترمذي), also known as Sunan at-Tirmidhi, is one of "the six books" ('' Kutub al-Sittah'' - the six major hadith collections). It was collected by Al-Tirmidhi. He began compiling it after the year 250 A.H. ...

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Al-Tirmidhi Abū ʿĪsā Muḥammad ibn ʿĪsā as-Sulamī aḍ-Ḍarīr al-Būghī at-Tirmidhī ( ar, أبو عيسى محمد بن عيسى السلمي الضرير البوغي الترمذي; fa, , ''Termezī''; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 - 2 ...

(d. 892 A.D. / 279 AH) :# ''

Al-Sunan al-Sughra ''Al-Sunan al-Sughra'' ( ar, السنن الصغرى), also known as ''Sunan al-Nasa'i'' ( ar, سنن النسائي), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadiths), and was collected by al-Nasa'i (214 – 303 AH; c. 829 – 915 CE). Descr ...

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Al-Nasa'i Al-Nasāʾī (214 – 303 AH; 829 – 915 CE), full name Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Aḥmad ibn Shuʿayb ibn ʿAlī ibn Sīnān al-Nasāʾī, (variant: Abu Abdel-rahman Ahmed ibn Shua'ib ibn Ali ibn Sinan ibn Bahr ibn Dinar Al-Khurasani ...

(d. 915 A.D. / 303 AH)

Primary Sources of Hadith Collections (Original Collections)

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Al-Fiqh al-Akbar ''Al-Fiqh al-Akbar'' (Arabic: الفقه الأكبر ) or "The Greater Knowledge" is a popular early Islamic text attributed to the Muslim jurist Abu Hanifa. It is one of the few surviving works of Abu Hanifa. It outlines the foundational arti ...

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Imam Abu Hanifa Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( ar, نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان; –767), commonly known by his '' kunya'' Abū Ḥanīfa ( ar, أبو حنيفة), or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Musl ...

(d. 767 A.D.) :# '' Al-Muwatta'' of Imam Malik ibn Anas (d. 795 A.D.) :# '' Musnad'' of Imam Shafi‘i (d. 820 A.D.) :# ''

Musannaf Musannaf hadīth collections are defined by their arrangement of content according to topic and constitute a major category within the class of all such works. Etymologically, ''musannaf'' is the passive particle of the Arabic verb ''sannafa'', ...

'' of ‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani (d. 826 A.D.) :# ''Musannaf'' of

Ibn Abi Shaybah Ibn Abī Shaybah or Imām Abū Bakr Ibn Abī Shaybah or Abū Bakr ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Ibn Abī Shaybah Ibrāhīm ibn ʿUthmān al-ʿAbasī al-Kūfī (Arabic: امام أبو بكر عبد الله بن محمد بن أبي شيبة إب� ...

(d. 849 A.D.) :# '' Musnad'' of Ishaq Ibn Rahwayh (d. 853 A.D.) :# '' Musnad'' of Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 855 A.D.) ''( Sahifah Ibn Munabbih of

Hammam ibn Munabbih Hammam ibn Munabbih ibn Kamil al-Yamani ( ar, همام ابن منبه ابن كامل اليمني, translit=Hammām ibn Munnabih ibn Kāmil al-Yamanī) was an Islamic scholar, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith. Biogr ...

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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 ...

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Al-Adab al-Mufrad ''Al-adab al-mufrad'' ( ar, الأدب المفرد) is a topical book of hadiths collected by Muhammad al-Bukhari addressing the question of perfecting Muslim manners. Description The book has hadith about the manners of Islamic prophet Muha ...

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(d. 870 A.D.) :# '' Musnad'' of Abu Bakr Ahmad al-Bazzar (d. 905 A.D.) :# ''Musnad'' of Abu Ya'la al-Mawsili (d. 919 A.D.) :# ''

Tahdhib al-Athar ''Tahdhīb al-Āthār'' ( ar, تهذيب الآثار) is a collection of hadith by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Al-Kattani described it as one of al-Tabari's amazing works, although, he did not complete it. Description Al-Tabari compiled this ...

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Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari ( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari i ...

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Sahih Hadith terminology ( ar, مصطلح الحديث, muṣṭalaḥu l-ḥadīth) is the body of terminology in Islam which specifies the acceptability of the sayings (''hadith'') attributed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad by other early Islamic fig ...

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Ibn Khuzaymah Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah ( ar , أبو بكر محمد بن إسحاق بن خزيمة, 837 CE/223 AH – 923 CE/311 AH) was a prominent Muslims, Muslim Hadith studies#Muhaddith: scholar of hadith, Muhaddith and Shafi'i school, ...

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Ibn Hibban Muḥammad ibn Hibbān al-Bustī () (c. 270–354/884–965) was a Muslim Arab scholar, Muhaddith, historian and author of well-known works, “Sheikh of Khorasan”. Biography Ibn Hibban was born in 270 AH (884 CE) in Bust or Bost in present-da ...

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al-Tabarani Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī (Arabic: أبو القاسم سليمان بن أحمد بن أيوب بن مطير اللَّخمي الشامي الطبراني) (AH 260/c. 87 ...

(d. 970 A.D.) :# '' Sunan'' of

Al-Daraqutni Abu Hasan Ali ibn Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Daraqutni (, 918 CE — 995 CE) was a 10th-century ''muhaddith'' best known for compiling the hadith collection '' Sunan al-Daraqutni''. He was celebrated later by Sunni hadith scholars such as the ...

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Al-Mustadrak ala al-Sahihayn ''Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn'' ( ar, المستدرك على الصحيحين) or ''Mustadrak Al Hakim'' ( ar, مستدرك الحاكم) is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishapuri (Nishapur is located in Iran). He wrot ...

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Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri ( fa, أبو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالله الحاكم النيسابوري; 933 - 1014 CE), also known as ''Ibn al-Bayyiʿ'', was a Persian Sunni scholar and the leadin ...

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Shuab ul Iman ''Shuab ul Iman'', ( ar, شعب الايمان), is a Hadith book compiled by Imam Al-Bayhaqi (384 AH – 458 AH). The author provides an exhaustive textual commentary relating to foundations of faith and its branches. Description It is one of ...

'' of Al-Bayhaqi (d. 1066 A.D.) :# '' Sunan al-Kubra'' of Al-Bayhaqi (d. 1066 A.D.) :# ''Sunan al-Wusta'' of Al-Bayhaqi (d. 1066 A.D.)

Secondary Hadith Collections (Compilations made from Original Collections)

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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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At-Targhib wat-Tarhib ''At-Targhib wat-Tarhib'' ( ar, الترغيب والترهيب) or ''Targhib wal Tarhib'', ( en, Reward and Terror) is one of the Hadith books compiled by Hafiz Zaki-ud-deen Abdul Azeem Al Munzari (d.656 AH) in the 7th century of Islamic History ...

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Riyadh as-Saaliheen ''Riyad as-Salihin'' or ''The Meadows of the Righteous'', also referred to as ''The Gardens of the Righteous'' (Arabic: رياض الصالحين ''Riyāḍ aṣ-Ṣāliḥīn''), is a compilation of verses from the Quran supplemented by hadith ...

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Mishkat al-Masabih ''Mishkāt al-Maṣābīḥ'' ( ar, مشكاة المصابيح, lit=The Niche of Lanterns) by Walī ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Khaṭīb at-Tibrīzī (d.1248) is an expanded and revised version of al-Baghawī's '' ...

'' by Khatib Al-Tabrizi (d. 1340 A.D.) ''(An improved version of Masabih al-Sunnah of

Al-Baghawi Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī ( Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), born 1041 or 1044 (433 AH or 436 AH) died 1122 (516 AH) was a renowned Persian Muslim mufassir, h ...

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al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historia ...

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Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain ''Al-Mustadrak 'ala al-Sahihayn'' ( ar, المستدرك على الصحيحين) or ''Mustadrak Al Hakim'' ( ar, مستدرك الحاكم) is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishapuri (Nishapur is located in Iran). He wrot ...

Hakim al-Nishaburi Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishapuri ( fa, أبو عبدالله محمد بن عبدالله الحاكم النيسابوري; 933 - 1014 CE), also known as ''Ibn al-Bayyiʿ'', was a Persian Sunni scholar and the leadi ...

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Majma al-Zawa'id ''Majmu' al-Zawa'id wa Manba' al-Fawa'id'' ( ar, مجمع الزوائد ومنبع الفوائد) is a secondary Sunni hadith collection written by Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami (1335–1404 CE/735–807 AH). It compiles the 'unique' ha ...

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Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami Nur al-Din `Ali ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Hasan al-Haythami (735AH 1335 CE– 807AH 1404 CE) was a Sunni Shafi`i Islamic scholar from Cairo, whose father had a shop on a desert road. He was born in the month of Rajab in 735 H. corresp ...

(d. 1404 A.D.) :# '' Bulugh al-Maram'' by Ibn Hajar Asqalani (d. 1448 A.D.) :# ''

Al-Jami' as-Saghir Al-Jami' as-Saghir ( ar-at, الجامع الصغير , lit=The little collection, ') is a Sunni hadith collection authored by the Islamic scholar Jalaluddin al-Suyuti (1445 – 1505 CE/ 849 - 911 H). Description Al-Jami' al-Kabir As-Saghir is ...

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Al-Suyuti Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti ( ar, جلال الدين السيوطي, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī) ( 1445–1505 CE),; (Brill 2nd) or Al-Suyuti, was an Arab Egyptian polymath, Islamic scholar, historian, Sufi, and jurist. From a family of Persian or ...

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Kanz al-Ummal Kanz al-Ummal Fee Sunan al-Aqwal wa al-Af'al ( ar-at, كنز العمال في سنن الأقوال والأفعال, '), known in English as Treasures of the Doers of Good Deeds, is a Sunni hadith collection, collected by the Islamic scholar ...

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Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi ‘Ala al-Din ‘Ali ibn ‘Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi al-Hindi (1472 - 1567 CE/888 - 975 AH) was a Sunni Islamic scholar who is known for writing Kanz al-Ummal.dhikr.html" ;"title="l. of "dhikr">l. of "dhikr" ‘Ali al-Muttaqī soon af ...

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Commentaries (Sharh) & Revision of Hadith Collections

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Fath al-Bari ''Fatḥ al-Bārī fī Sharḥ Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī'' ( ar-at, فتح الباري, lit=Grant of the Creator) is a multi-volume commentary on the Sunni hadith collection ''Sahih al-Bukhari'', composed by Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani Shafi. Conside ...

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Umdat al-Qari Sahih al-Bukhari ( ar, صحيح البخاري, translit=Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī), group=note is a ''hadith'' collection and a book of ''sunnah'' compiled by the Persian scholar Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī (810–870) around 846. Al ...

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Badr al-Din al-Ayni Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni ( ar, بدر الدين العيني, Badr al-ʿAynī; born 762 AH/1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi ...

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al-Qastallani Shihāb al-Dīn Abu'l-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī al-Qutaybī al-Shāfi‘ī ( ar, أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي بكر ابن عبد الملك بن أحمد بن حسين بن علي القسطلاني ...

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Awn ad-Din ibn Hubayra Awn al-Din Abu'l-Muzzafar Yahya ibn Hubayra al-Shaybani al-Duri al-Baghdadi (; 1105-1165), commonly referred to as Ibn Hubayra, was a 12th-century Iraqi Arab official and a Hanbali jurist, who served for sixteen years as vizier of the Abbasid Cali ...

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Al Minhaj bi Sharh Sahih Muslim Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim or Sahih Muslim bi sharh al-Nawawi is a book by Islamic scholar Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi, a commentary on Sahih Muslim. See also *List of Sunni books This is a list of significant books in the doctrines of Su ...

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al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

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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 ...

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Ibn Rajab Imam Abd Al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Rajab (736-795 AH/1335–1393 CE), best known as ''Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali'' and also ''Ibn Rajab'', which was a nickname he inherited from his grandfather who was born in the month of Rajab, was a Muslim scholar. B ...

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Ibn Daqiq al-'Id Ibn Daqiq al-'Id (; 1228–1302), born in Yanbu into the Arab tribe of Banu Qushayr. He is accounted as one of Islam's great scholars in the fundamentals of Islamic law and belief, and was an authority in the Shafi'i legal school. Although Ibn ...

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and As-Sindi :# ''Annotations Sunan Abi Dawood'' by Al-Suyuti :# ''Silsalat al-Hadith ad-Da'ifah'' by

Muhammad Nasiruddin 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), ...

Collections of Fabricated Narrations

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Ibn al-Jawzi ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Abu 'l-Faras̲h̲ b. al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (Arabic: ابن الجوزي, ''Ibn al-Jawzī''; ca. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, or reverentially as ''Imam Ibn al-Jawzī'' by ...

Hadith studies & Terminologies

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Ibn Qutaybah Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muslim ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī al-Marwazī better known simply as Ibn Qutaybah ( ar-at, ابن قتيبة, Ibn Qutaybah; c. 828 – 13 November 889 CE / 213 – 15 Rajab 276 AH) was an Islamic scholar of Persian ...

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Qadi Ayyad ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) ( ar, القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī ...

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Ibn al-Salah Abū ‘Amr ‘Uthmān ibn ‘Abd il-Raḥmān Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn al-Kurdī al-Shahrazūrī () (c. 1181 CE/577 AH – 1245/643), commonly known as Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ, was a Kurdish Shafi'i hadith specialist and the author of the seminal ''Introdu ...

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Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī or ''Ibn Ḥajar'' ( ar, ابن حجر العسقلاني, full name: ''Shihābud-Dīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Nūrud-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī al-Kināni'') (18 February 1372 – 2 Febru ...

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Al-Sakhawi Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī ( ar, شمس الدين محمد بن عبدالرحمن السخاوي, 1428/831 AH – 1497/902 AH) was a reputable Shafi‘i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cair ...

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Tafsir (Exegesis of the Qur'an)

Authentic Classical Tafsir

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Tafsir al-Tabari ''Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān'' (, also written with ''fī'' in place of ''ʿan''), popularly ''Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī'' ( ar, تفسير الطبري), is a Sunni ''tafsir'' by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (8 ...

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Al-Tabari ( ar, أبو جعفر محمد بن جرير بن يزيد الطبري), more commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (), was a Muslim historian and scholar from Amol, Tabaristan. Among the most prominent figures of the Islamic Golden Age, al-Tabari ...

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Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Maḥmūd al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī al-Samarḳandī ( fa, أبو منصور محمد بن محمد بن محمود الماتریدي السمرقندي الحنفي; 853–944 CE), often referred t ...

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Tafsir al-Thalabi ''Al-Kashf wa-l-bayān ʿan tafsīr al-Qurʾān'' ( ar, الكشف والبيان عن تفسير القرآن), commonly known as the ''Tafsir al-Thalabi'', is a classical Sunni ''tafsir'', or commentary on the Quran, by eleventh-century Islamic s ...

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Al-Tha'labi Al-Tha''ʿ''labi (''Abū Isḥāḳ Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nīsābūrī al-Thaʿlabī'' ; died November 1035) was an eleventh-century Islamic scholar of Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically ...

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Tafsir al-Baghawi ''Tafsīr al-Baghawī'' ( ar, تفسير البغوي), also known as ''Ma‘ālim al-Tanzīl'', is a classical Sunni tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis) by Husayn b. Mas'ūd al-Baghawī (d. 1122), written as an abridgement of ''Tafsir al-Thalabi'' by al ...

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Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi or, in full Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdallāh ibn al-ʿArabī al-Maʿāfirī al-Ishbīlī ( ar, أبو بكر محمّد ابن عبدالله ابن العربى المعافرى الأسفلى) born in Sevilla in 1076 ...

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Al-Tafsir al-Kabir ''Mafatih al-Ghayb'' (), usually known as ''al-Tafsir al-Kabir'' (), is a classical Islamic tafsir book, written by the twelfth-century Islamic theologian and philosopher Fakhruddin Razi (d.1210). The book is an exegesis and commentary on the Qu ...

'' (also known as: ''Mafatih al-Ghayb'') by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi :# ''Al-Taysir fi al-Tafsir'' by Abu Hafs Umar an-Nasafi :# '' Al-Jami' li-Ahkam al-Qur'an'' by

Al-Qurtubi Imam Abū ʿAbdullāh Al-Qurṭubī or Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Anṣārī al-Qurṭubī ( ar, أبو عبدالله القرطبي) (121429 April 1273) was an Andalusian jurist, Islamic scholar and muhaddith. He ...

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Tafsir al-Baydawi ''Anwar al-Tanzil wa-Asrar al-Ta'wil'' ( ar, أنوار التنزيل وأسرار التأويل, lit=The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation), better known as ''Tafsir al-Baydawi'' ( ar, تفسير البيضاوي), is o ...

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Al-Baydawi Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d. June 1319, Tabriz) was a Persian jurist, theologian, and Quran commentator. He lived during the post-Seljuk and early Mongol era. Many commenta ...

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Abu Hayyan al-Gharnati Abū Ḥayyān Athīr ad-Dīn al-Gharnāṭī ( ar, أَبُو حَيَّان أَثِير ٱلدِّين ٱلْغَرْنَاطِيّ, November 1256 – July 1344 CE / 654 - 745 AH), whose full name is Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf bin ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf ...

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Tafsir ibn Kathir ''Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm'' better known as ''Tafsir Ibn Kathir'' is the tafsir by Ibn Kathir (died 774 AH). It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran. It also includes jurisprud ...

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Tafsir al-Jalalayn ''Tafsīr al-Jalālayn'' ( ar, تفسير الجلالين, lit=Tafsir of the two Jalals) is a classical Sunni interpretation (tafsir) of the Qur'an, composed first by Jalal ad-Din al-Maḥalli in 1459 and then completed after his passing by Jala ...

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Al-Mahalli Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shihāb al-Dīn Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī ( ar, جلال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن شهاب الدين أحمد بن كمال الدين محمد بن إبراهيم بن أحمد بن ها ...

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Dur al-Manthur ''Al-Durr Al-Manthur Fi Tafsir Bil-Ma'thur'' ( ar, الدر المنثور في التفسير بالماثور, lit=The Scattered Pearls: Intertextual Exegesis) is a Sunni Islam, Sunni tafsir (exegesis or commentary of the Qur'an, the holy book o ...

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Authentic Modern-age Tafsir

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Ruh al-Ma'ani ''Rūh al-Ma'ānī fī Tafsīri-l-Qur'āni-l-'Aẓīm wa Sab'u-l-Mathānī'' ( ar, روح المعاني في تفسير القرآن العظيم والسبع المثاني) is a 30-volume tafsir of the Qur'an, authored by the 19th-century Iraqi ...

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Mahmud al-Alusi Abū al-Thanā’ Shihāb ad-Dīn Sayyid Maḥmūd ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Ḥusaynī al-Ālūsī al-Baghdādī ( ar, أبو الثناء شهاب الدين سيد محمود بن عبد الله بن محمود الحسيني الآلوسي الب� ...

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Bayan Ul Quran ''Bayan Ul Quran'' (Urdu language, Urdu: بیان القرآن) is a three volume ''tafsir'' (exegesis) of the Quran written by Indian Ulama, Islamic scholar, Ashraf Ali Thanwi (d.1943). Originally written in Urdu, it is the most prominent work o ...

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Ashraf Ali Thanwi Ashraf Ali Thanwi (often referred as Hakim al-Ummat and Mujaddid e Millet; 19 September 1863 – 20 July 1943) was a late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Sunni Islam, Sunni scholar, jurist, thinker, Mujaddid, reformist and the revival of classic ...

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Maariful Quran ''Ma'ariful Qur'an'' ( ur, ) is an eight-volume ''tafsir'' (exegesis) of the Quran written by Islamic scholar Mufti Muhammad Shafi (1897–1976). Originally written in Urdu, it is the most prominent work of its author. Background About the ...

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Mufti Muhammad Shafi Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī ( ur, ; ar, محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي, ''Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī''; ...

:# ''Tafsir Tibyan-ul-Qur'an'' by Ghulam Rasool Saeedi :# ''Tafsir-ul-Qur’an'' (also known as: ''Tafsir-e-Majidi'') by Maulana

Abdul Majid Daryabadi 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 20th century. He was as one of the most influential Indian Mus ...

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Tafhim-ul-Quran ''Tafhim-ul-Quran'' ( ur, تفہيم القرآن, lit=Towards Understanding the Qur'an, Tafheem-ul-Quran) is a 6-volume translation and commentary of the Qur'an by the Pakistani Islamist ideologue and activist Syed Abul Ala Maududi. Maududi beg ...

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Abul A'la Maududi Abul A'la al-Maududi ( ur, , translit=Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī; – ) was an Islamic scholar, Islamist ideologue, Muslim philosopher, jurist, historian, journalist, activist and scholar active in British India and later, following the parti ...

:# '' Anwar Ul Bayan'' by Mufti Muhammad Ashiq Ilahi Bulandshahri :# ''A Thematic Commentary on the Qur'an'' by

Muhammad al-Ghazali Sheikh Mohammed al-Ghazali al-Saqqa (1917–1996) ( ar, الشيخ محمد الغزالي السقا ), was an Islamic scholar whose writings "have influenced generations of Egyptians". The author of 94 books, he attracted a broad following wit ...

:# ''Zubdat al-itqān fī ‘ulūm al-Qur’ān'' by Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki :# ''The Meanings of the Noble Qur’an (with Explanatory Notes)'' by Mufti

Muhammad Taqi Usmani Muhammad Taqi Usmani (born 5 October 1943) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and former judge who is the current president of the Wifaq ul Madaris Al-Arabia and the vice president and Hadith professor of the Darul Uloom Karachi. An intellectual ...

Aqidah (Theology)

Abu Hanifa Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān ( ar, نعمان بن ثابت بن زوطا بن مرزبان; –767), commonly known by his '' kunya'' Abū Ḥanīfa ( ar, أبو حنيفة), or reverently as Imam Abū Ḥanīfa by Sunni Mus ...

(d. 150 AH) :# Al-Risala by

Al-Shafi'i Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī ( ar, أَبُو عَبْدِ ٱللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ ٱلشَّافِعِيُّ, 767–19 January 820 CE) was an Arab Muslim theologian, writer, and schola ...

(d. 204 AH) :# Kitab al-Iman by Abu Bakr Ibn Abi Shaybah (d. 235 AH) :# Usul al-Sunnah by

Ahmad Ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...

(d. 241 AH) :# Al-Radd 'ala al-Jahmiyyah wa al-Zanadaqah by

(d. 241 AH) :# Nawadir al-Usul by

Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī ( ar, الحكيم الترمذي; ), full name Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Hasan ibn Bashir al-Tirmidhi (d. c. 869) was a Persian Sunni jurist (''faqih'') and traditionist (''muhaddith'') of Khorasan, but is ...

(d. 255 AH) :# Khalq Afal al-Ibad by al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH) :# al-Ikhtilāf fī al-Lafz wa al-Radd ‘alā al-Jahmiyyah wal-Mushabbiha by

(d. 276 AH) :# Kitab al-Sunnah by Harb Ibn Ismail al-Kirmani (d. 280 AH) :# Kitab al-Sunnah by Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 290 AH) :# Kitab at-Tawheed by

(d. 311 AH) :# Al-Ha'iyah by Ibn Abi Dawud (d. 316 AH) :# Kitab al-Shariah by

Abu Bakr al-Ajurri Imam al-Ajurri was an Islamic scholar from 10th century (4th century AH). He came from Darb al-Ajurr in western Baghdad, after studying with many scholar in Iraq he moved to Mecca and start teaching there. He lived in Mecca for 30 years until he ...

(d. 320 AH) :#

Al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah Al-'Aqida al-Tahawiyya ( ar, العقيدة الطحاوية ) or ''bayān 'ittiqād ahl al-sunnah wal jamā'ah'' ( ar, بيان اعتقاد أهل السنة والجماعة) is a popular exposition of Sunni Muslim doctrine written by the te ...

Al-Tahawi Abu Ja'far Ahmad al-Tahawi ( ar, أبو جعفر الطحاوي, translit=Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (843 – 5 November 933), or simply aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: ), was an Egyptians, Egyptian Arabs, Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditiona ...

(d. 321 AH) :# Al-Maqālat al-Islamiyyīn by

Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī (; full name: ''Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Ashʿarī''; c. 874–936 CE/260–324 AH), often reverently referred to as Imām al-Ashʿarī by Sunnī Muslims, was an Arab Muslim scholar ...

(d. 324 AH) :# Al-Ibanah an Usul al-Diyanah by

Al-Ash'ari Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī (; full name: ''Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Isḥāq al-Ashʿarī''; c. 874–936 CE/260–324 AH), often reverently referred to as Imām al-Ashʿarī by Sunnī Muslims, was an Arab Muslim scholar ...

Kitab al-Tawhid ''Kitab al-Tawhid'' ( ar, كتاب التوحيد, lit=The Book of Monotheism), is the main Sunni theological book, and the primary source of the Maturidi school of thought; written by the Hanafi scholar Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (d. 333/944). Kitab ...

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Al-Sawad al-A'zam Al-Radd 'ala Ashab al-Hawa ( ar, الرد على أصحاب الهوى, lit=Refutation of those holding heretical views), better known as ''al-Sawad al-A'zam 'ala Madhhab al-Imam al-A'zam Abi Hanifa'' ( ar, السواد الأعظم على مذهب ...

by Al-Hakim al-Samarqandi (d. 342 AH) :# Kitab al-Thiqat by

(d. 354 AH) :# Al-Sunnah by

Al-Tabarani Abū al-Qāsim Sulaymān ibn Aḥmad ibn Ayyūb ibn Muṭayyir al-Lakhmī al-Shāmī al-Ṭabarānī (Arabic: أبو القاسم سليمان بن أحمد بن أيوب بن مطير اللَّخمي الشامي الطبراني) (AH 260/c. 87 ...

(d. 360 AH) :# Al-Shari'ah by

Abu Bakr Al-Ajurri Imam al-Ajurri was an Islamic scholar from 10th century (4th century AH). He came from Darb al-Ajurr in western Baghdad, after studying with many scholar in Iraq he moved to Mecca and start teaching there. He lived in Mecca for 30 years until he ...

(d. 360 AH) :# Al-Mutalif wa al-Mukhtalif by

(d. 385 AH) :# Al-Risala al-Qayrawaniyya by

Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani Ibn Abī Zayd () (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.Herbert J ...

(d. 386 AH) :# Al-Ibaanah by Ibn Battah (d. 387 AH) :# Al-Sunnah by

Ibn Manda Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad bin Isḥāq Ibn Manda (d. 395/1004–5) was an eminent Isfahani Sunni Hadith scholar of Persian origin. Overview of the Ibn Manda Family In classical ''hadīth'' literature, the name "Ibn Manda" may refer to vari ...

(d. 395 AH) :# Al-Iman by

(d. 395 AH) :# I'tiqad Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama'ah by Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah al-Lalakai (d. 418 AH) :#

Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq is a book by the Shafi'i scholar Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi (d. 1037 CE) outlining the doctrinal positions of various sects and schisms in Islam. Written as an explanation of the hadith regarding the division of the Muslim umma ...

by Abu Mansur Al-Baghdadi (d. 429 AH) :# Hilyat al-awliya by

Abu Nu`aym Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (; full name: ''Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī'' (or ''al-Asfahānī'') ''al-Ahwal al-Ash`arī al-Shāfi`ī'', died 1038 CE / AH 430) was a medieval Persian S ...

(d. 430 AH) :# Al-Arba`in ala Madhhab al-Mutahaqqiqin min al-Sufiyya by Abu Nu`aym (d. 430 AH) :# Aqidah al-Salafi Ahl al-Hadith by Al-Sabuni (d. 449 AH) :# Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat by Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH) :# Al-Durrah fi ma Yazibu Itiqaduhu by Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi :# Al-I'tqaad alaa Madhabis-Salaf Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah by Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH) :# Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor by Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH) :# Al-Ishara ila Madhhab Ahl al-Haqq by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi :#

Kashf ul Mahjoob The ( fa, کشف المحجوب , lit=Revelation of the Hidden) was the first formal treatise on Sufism, compiled in the 11th-century by the Persian scholar Ali al-Hujwiri. The work contains a complete system of Sufism with its doctrines and pra ...

Ali Hujwiri Abu 'l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿUthmān b. ʿAlī al-Ghaznawī al-Jullābī al-Hujwīrī (c. 1009-1072/77), known as ʿAlī al-Hujwīrī or al-Hujwīrī (also spelt Hajweri, Hajveri, or Hajvery) for short, or reverentially as Shaykh Syed ʿAlī al- ...

(d. 465 AH) :# Al-Irshad 'ila Qawati' al-Adilla fi Usul al-I'tiqad by

Al-Juwayni Dhia' ul-Dīn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Yūsuf al-Juwaynī al-Shafi'ī ( fa, امام الحرمین ضیاءالدین عبدالملک ابن یوسف جوینی شافعی, 17 February 102820 August 1085; 419–478 AH) was a Persian Sunni Shafi'i j ...

(d. 478 AH) :# Al-Aqida al-Nizamiyya by

(d. 478 AH) :# Ihya' Ulum al-Din by

Al-Ghazali Al-Ghazali ( – 19 December 1111; ), full name (), and known in Persian-speaking countries as Imam Muhammad-i Ghazali (Persian: امام محمد غزالی) or in Medieval Europe by the Latinized as Algazelus or Algazel, was a Persian polymat ...

(d. 505 AH) :# Al-Iqtisad fi al-I'tiqad by

(d. 505 AH) :# Iljam al-Awwam fi Ilm al-Kalam by Al-Ghazali (d. 505 AH) :# Tabsirat al-Adilla by

Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi ( uz, Абул-Муин ан-Насафи; ar, أبو المعين النسفي), was considered to be the most important Central Asian Hanafi theologian in the Maturidite school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur ...

(d. 508 AH) :# Al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya by Umar Ibn Muhammad al-Nasafi (d. 537 AH) :#

Al-Milal wa al-Nihal ''Kitāb al–Milal wa al-Nihal'' (Arabic: كتاب الملل والنحل, ''The Book of Sects and Creeds''), written by the Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Shahrastani (d. 1153 CE), is a non-polemical study of religious communities and philosophies ...

Al-Shahrastani Tāj al-Dīn Abū al-Fath Muhammad ibn `Abd al-Karīm ash-Shahrastānī ( ar, تاج الدين أبو الفتح محمد بن عبد الكريم الشهرستاني; 1086–1153 CE), also known as Muhammad al-Shahrastānī, was an influenti ...

(d. 548 AH) :# Tartib al-Madarik wa takrib al-Masalik by

(d. 554 AH) :# al-I`lam bi Hudud Qawa'id al-Islam by Qadi Ayyad (d. 554 AH) :# Daqa`iq al-akhbar fi dhikr al-janna wa-l-nar by Qadi Ayyad (d. 554 AH) :# Al-Ghunya li-Talibi Tariq al-Haqq by Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH) :# Al-Fath ar-Rabbani by Shaykh Abdul Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH) :# Al-Baz al-Ashhab by

(d. 597 AH) :# Lum'ah al-I'tiqad by

Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi 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 ...

(d. 620 AH) :# Al-Aqīdah Al-Wasitiyyah by

Ibn Taymiyyah 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 � ...

(d. 728 AH) :# Kitab al-Iman by Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728 AH) :# Nur al-Mubin by Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi al-Gharnati al-Maliki :# Kitab ar-Ruh by

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb al-Zurʿī l-Dimashqī l-Ḥanbalī (29 January 1292–15 September 1350 CE / 691 AH–751 AH), commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya ("The son of the principal of he school ...

(d. 751 AH) :# Sharh al-Aqaid al-Nasafiyya by

al-Taftazani Sa'ad al-Din Masud ibn Umar ibn Abd Allah al-Taftazani ( fa, سعدالدین مسعودبن عمربن عبداللّه هروی خراسانی تفتازانی) also known as Al-Taftazani and Taftazani (1322–1390) was a Muslim Persian po ...

(d. 791 AH) :# Sharh Al-Aqīdah At-Tahawiyyah by Ibn Abi al-Izz al-Hanafi (d. 792 AH) :# Al-Aqidah al-Sanusiyya by Al-Sanusi (d. 795 AH) :# Kitab al-Tawhid by Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (d. 795 AH) :# Sharh Fiqh al-Akbar by Mulla Ali Al-Qari al-Hanafi (d. 1014 AH) :# Maktubat Imam Rabbani by Shaykh Ahmad Sirhindi (Mujaddid Alf-e-Saani) (d. 1034 AH) :# Akhbar al-Akhyar by Shaykh Abdul-Haqq Muhaddith Dehlavi (d. 1052 AH) :# Takmīl al-Iman by Shaykh Abdul-Haqq Muhaddith Dehlavi (d. 1052 AH) :# Hujjat Allah al-Baligha by

Shah Waliullah Dehlawi Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ‎; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...

(d. 1176 AH) :# Taqwiyatul Iman by

Shah Ismail Dehlvi Shah Ismail Dehlvi (26 April, 1779 – 6 May, 1831) was an Indian Islamic scholar and Salafi-oriented Sufi reformer. He was an active member in the jihad proclaimed by Sayyid Ahmad of Raebareilly with the support of Pashtun tribes against ...

:# Al-Kharida al-Bahia by Ahmad al-Dardir (d. 1201 AH) :# Nayl al-Awtar by

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 ...

(d. 1250 AH) :#

Risale-i Nur The Risale-i Nur Collection ( tr, Risale-i Nur Külliyatı, ota, رساله نور كلیاتی) is a tafsir (exegesis) on the Qur'an written by Said Nursî, an Islamic Scholar from Bitlis region of Turkey between the 1910s and 1950s. The comme ...

by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi (d. 1379 AH)

Fiqh (Jurisprudential Theory)

Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named aft ...

:# ''Usul al-fiqh'' by

Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari () better known as Abu Yusuf ( ar, أبو يوسف, Abū Yūsuf) (d.798) was a student of jurist Abu Hanifa (d.767) who helped spread the influence of the Hanafi school of Islamic law through his writings and the gove ...

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Muhammad al-Shaybani Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad ash-Shaybānī ( ar, أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/50 – 805), the father of Muslim international law, was an Arab jurist and a di ...

:# '' Uṣūl ash-Shashi'' by Nizham ad-Din ash-Shashi :# ''

Al-Hidayah ''Al-Hidayah fi Sharh Bidayat al-Mubtadi'' (d. 593 AH/1197 CE) ( ar, الهداية في شرح بداية المبتدي, ''al-Hidāyah fī Sharḥ Bidāyat al-Mubtadī''), commonly referred to as ''al-Hidayah'' (lit. "the guidance", also spelle ...

'' by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani (d. 593 AH) :# ''Kanz ul-Daqaiq'' by

Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi Abu al-Barakat al-Nasafi ( ar, أبو البركات النسفي), was an eminent Hanafi scholar, Qur'an exegete (mufassir), and a Maturidi theologian. He is perhaps best known for his Tafsir ''Madarik al-Tanzil wa Haqa'iq al-Ta'wil'' ( ar, مد� ...

(d. 710 AH) :# ''Multaqa al-Abḥur'' by Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (d. 956 AH) :# ''Al-Bahr al-Raiq Sharh Kanz ul-Daqaiq'' by Ibn Nujaim al-Hanafi (d. 969 AH) :# ''Tuḥfat al-Mubtadī'' by Ibrāhīm bin Ḥasan al-Mullā al-Aḥsāʿī (d. 1048 AH) :# ''Fath Ar-Rahman Fi Isbat-e-Madhhab an-Nu'man'' by Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi (d. 1052 AH) :# ''Nur al-Idah'' by Abul-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan ash-Shurunbulālī (d. 1069 AH) :# ''Marāqī as-Saʿādāt'' by Abul-Ikhlāṣ Ḥasan ash-Shurunbulālī :# '' Durr ul-Mukhtar'' by Muhammad Ala ad-Din Haskafi (d. 1088 AH) :# ''

Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar Radd al-Muhtār 'ala al-Durr al-Mukhtār ( ar, رد المحتار على الدر المختار) is a book on Islamic jurisprudence (''fiqh'') by 18th century Islamic scholar, Ibn 'Abidin, whose title translates to "Guiding the Baffled to ''The ...

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Ibn Abidin Ibn 'Abidin ( ar, ابن عابدين, Ibn ʿᾹbidīn; full name: ''Muḥammad Amīn ibn ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Aḥmad in ʿAbd ar-Raḥīm ibn Najmuddīn ibn Muḥammad Ṣalāḥuddīn al-Shāmī'', died 1836 CE / AH 1252), known in ...

(d. 1252 AH) :# ''Iṣlāḥ ʿIlm al-Ḥāl'' by Amīn Jundī :# '' Majallah al-Aḥkām al-ʿAdlīyah'' :# ''Hukuki İslamiye ve Istılahı Fıkhiyye Kamus'' by Ömer Nasuhi Bilmen

Compilation of Fatwa (Edicts)

:# '' Fatawa Aziz'' by

Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi Shah Abdul Aziz Muhaddith Dehlavi (11 October 1746 – 5 June 1824; ) was Muhaddith (scholar of Hadith) and Mujadid Sufi and reformer from India. He was of the Naqshbandi Sufism, Sufi order which emerged from a tradition of violent backlash again ...

:# '' Fatawa-e-Alamgiri'' commissioned by the Mughal Emperor

Aurangzeb Muhi al-Din Muhammad (; – 3 March 1707), commonly known as ( fa, , lit=Ornament of the Throne) and by his regnal title Alamgir ( fa, , translit=ʿĀlamgīr, lit=Conqueror of the World), was the sixth emperor of the Mughal Empire, ruling ...

:# '' Fatawa-e-Razvia'' by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

Shafi'i The Shafii ( ar, شَافِعِي, translit=Shāfiʿī, also spelled Shafei) school, also known as Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, is one of the four major traditional schools of religious law (madhhab) in the Sunnī branch of Islam. It was founded by ...

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Kitab al-Umm The ''Kitāb al-Umm'' (Arabic: كـتـاب الأم) is the first exhaustive compendium of Islamic code of law that is used as an authoritative guide by the Shafi'i school of ''fiqh'' (Islamic jurisprudence) within the Sunni branch of Islam. The ...

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ash-Shafi'i Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī ( ar, أَبُو عَبْدِ ٱللهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ ٱلشَّافِعِيُّ, 767–19 January 820 CE) was an Arab Muslim theologian, writer, and schola ...

:# ''Mukhtaṣar al-Muzanī'' by

Al-Muzani Abū Ibrāīm Ismā'īl ibn Yahyā Ibn Ismā'īl Ibn 'Amr Ibn Muslim Al-Muzanī Al-Misrī (791/2 – 878) was an Islamic jurist and theologian and one of leading member of Shafi'i school. A native of Cairo, he was a close disciple and companion o ...

:# ''Mukhtaṣar al-Buwayṭi'' by Al-Buwayti :# ''Al-Mabsūṭ'' by Al-Bayhaqi :# ''Maʿrifah as-Sunan wal-Athar'' by Al-Bayhaqi :# ''Al-Tanbih fi al-Fiqh al-Shafi'i'' by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi :# ''Al-Muhadhdhab fi Fiqh al-Imam al-Shafi'i'' by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi :# ''Al-Luma' fi Usul al-Fiqh'' by Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi :# ''Nihayat al-Matlab fi Dirayat al-Madhhab'' by

:# ''Talkhis Fi Usul al-Fiqh'' by Al Juwayni :# ''Al-Wajiz Fi Al-Fiqh As-Shafi'i'' by

:# ''Al Muntakhab Mina al-Mahsul fi Usul-al-Fiqh'' by Fakhr al-Din al-Razi :# ''Al-Ghayah fi Ikhtisar al-Nihayah'' by

Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam Abū Muḥammad ʿIzz al-Dīn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz bin ʿAbd al-Salām bin Abī al-Qāsim bin Ḥasan al-Sulamī al-Shāfiʿī ( ar, أبو محمد عز الدين عبد العزيز بن عبد السلام بن أبي القاسم بن حسن ا ...

:# ''Al Qawa'id al-Kubra'' by Izz al-Din ibn 'Abd al-Salam :# ''Al-Maqāṣid'' by

Al-Nawawi Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī ( ar, أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي;‎ (631A.H-676A.H) (October 1230–21 December 1277), popularly known as al-Nawawī or Imam Nawawī, was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and ...

:# ''Minhāj aṭ-Ṭalibīn'' by Al-Nawawi :# ''Tabaqat ash-Shafi'iyah'' by

Taj al-Din al-Subki Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (), or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī ()or simply Ibn al-Subki was a leading Islamic scholar, a faqīh, a muḥaddith and a historian from the celebrated al-Subkī family ...

:# ''Al-Ashbaahu Wan-Nadhaair'' by

:# ''Tuhfah AL-Muhtaj Bi Sharh Al-Minhaj'' by

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī al-Anṣārī known as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Makki ( ar, ابن حجر الهيتمي المكي) was an Egyptian Arab muhaddith and theologi ...

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Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik (''Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper'', also commonly known by its shorter title ''Reliance of the Traveller'') is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. T ...

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Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik (''Reliance of the Traveller and Tools of the Worshipper'', also commonly known by its shorter title ''Reliance of the Traveller'') is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence. T ...

:# ''Fatḥ al-Muʿīn'' by Zayn ad-Din Ahmed al-Malibari

Maliki The ( ar, مَالِكِي) school is one of the four major schools of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary ...

:# Al Mudawanna by

Sahnun Sahnun ibn Sa'id ibn Habib at-Tanukhi () (c. 776/77 – 854/55) (160 AH – 240 AH ) was a jurist in the Maliki school from Qayrawan in modern-day Tunisia. Biography His original name was Abdu Salaam Ibn Said Ibn Habib () He gained the nickna ...

:# Al Risalah by

Ibn Abi Zayd Al-Qayrawani Ibn Abī Zayd () (922–996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.Herbert J ...

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Ibn 'Abd al-Barr Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar al-Namarī al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī, commonly known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr ( ar, ابن عبد البر)

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:# Bidayat al-Mujtahid wa Nihayat al-Muqtaṣid by

Ibn Rushd Ibn Rushd ( ar, ; full name in ; 14 April 112611 December 1198), often Latinized as Averroes ( ), was an Andalusian polymath and jurist who wrote about many subjects, including philosophy, theology, medicine, astronomy, physics, psychology, ...

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Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī () (also known as simply known a ...

:# Al-Madkhal by Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari :#

Mukhtasar Mukhtaṣar ( ar, المختصر), in Islamic law, refers to a concise handbook of legal treatises, characterized by neatness and clarity. ''Mukhtasar''s originated during the Abbasid caliphate and were created as a method to facilitate the quick ...

Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi Khalil ibn Ishaq al-Jundi (died ), also known as ''Sidi'' Khalil, was an Egyptian jurisprudent in Maliki Islamic law who taught in Medina and Cairo. His Mukhtasar, known as the "''Mukhtasar'' of Khalil", is considered an epitome of shariah law ac ...

:# Al-Muwafaqaat fi Usool al-Sharia by Al-Shatibi

Hanbali The Hanbali school ( ar, ٱلْمَذْهَب ٱلْحَنۢبَلِي, al-maḏhab al-ḥanbalī) is one of the four major traditional Sunni schools (''madhahib'') of Islamic jurisprudence. It is named after the Arab scholar Ahmad ibn Hanbal ...

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Ahmad ibn Hanbal Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...

(d. 241 AH) :# ''Wadih fi Uṣūl al-Fiqh'' by

Ibn Aqil Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi (1040–1119) was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. He was trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (''madhab'') for eleven years under scholars such as the Qadi Abu Ya'la. Despite this, I ...

(d. 513 AH) :# ''Futūh al-Ghayb'' by Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH) :# ''Muthīr al-Gharām al-Sākin ilā Ashraf al-Amākin'' by

(d. 597 AH) :# ''ʿUmdat al-Fiqh'' by

Ibn Qudamah 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 ...

(d. 620 AH) :# ''al-Muqniʿ'' by Ibn Qudamah :# ''Al-Mughnī'' by Ibn Qudamah :# ''

Al-Kaafi ''Al-Kaafi fi fiqh al-Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal'' is a book of Hanbali Fiqh written by Imaam Ibn Qudamah. Description Al-Kaafi is one of the marvels of Islamic literature. It is from the series of literal accomplishments offered by the author, al- ...

'' by Ibn Qudamah :# ''Kitab al-Furu'' by Ibn Muflih (d. 763 AH) :# ''Zād al-Mustaqniʿ'' by Al-Hajjawi (d. 968 AH) :# ''Dalīl al-Ṭālib'' by Marʿī bin Yūsuf al-Karmī (d. 1033 AH) :# ''Muntahā al-Irādāt'' by al-Bahūtī (d. 1051 AH) :# ''ʿUmdat al-Ṭālib'' by al-Bahūtī :# ''Kashshāf al-Qināʿ'' by al-Bahūtī :# ''Akhṣar al-Mukhtaṣarāt'' by Ibn Balban (d. 1083 AH) :# ''Bidāyat al-ʿĀbid'' by ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān al-Ba’lī (d. 1110 AH) :# ''Al-Ajwibat al-Jaliyyah'' by Mūsā al-Qaddumi (d. 1265 AH)

Seerah (Prophetic biography)

:# ''Sīrat Rasūl Allāh'' by

Ibn Ishaq Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār (; according to some sources, ibn Khabbār, or Kūmān, or Kūtān, ar, محمد بن إسحاق بن يسار بن خيار, or simply ibn Isḥaq, , meaning "the son of Isaac"; died 767) was an 8 ...

:# '' Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah'' by Ibn Hisham :# '' Ash-Shifa'' by Qadi Ayyad :# ''Al-Rawḍ al-unuf'' by Al-Suhayli (''a commentary of Al-Sirah Al-Nabawiyyah'') :# ''Al-Wafa bi Ahwal al-Mustafa'' by

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Zad al-Ma'ad ''Zad al-Ma'ad Fi Hadyi Khair Al 'Ibaad'' ( ar, زاد المعاد في هدي خير العباد) is a 5-volume book, translated as Provisions of the Hereafter in the Guidance of the Best of Servants, written by the Islamic scholar Ibn al-Qayyim. ...

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Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr ibn Ayyūb al-Zurʿī l-Dimashqī l-Ḥanbalī (29 January 1292–15 September 1350 CE / 691 AH–751 AH), commonly known as Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya ("The son of the principal of he school ...

:# ''Al-Sīrah al-Nabawīyyah'' (4 Volume Set) by

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Al-Khasa'is al-Kubra Kifayat al-Talib al-Labib fi Khasa'is al-Habib ( ar, كفاية الطالب اللبيب في خصائص الحبيب) shortly known as al-Khasa'is al-Kubra ( ar, الخصائص الكبرى) is an Islamic book written by Egyptian Muslim scholar ...

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Al-Muwahib al-Ladunniyyah Al-Muwahib al-ladunniyya bi al-minah al-Muhammadiyya is a book by Islamic scholar Al-Qastallani. The book was commented in Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah (8 volumes) by Muhammad al-Zurqani Muhammad al-Zurqani (1645–1710 CE ) ( ar, محم� ...

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Al-Qastallani Shihāb al-Dīn Abu'l-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī al-Qutaybī al-Shāfi‘ī ( ar, أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي بكر ابن عبد الملك بن أحمد بن حسين بن علي القسطلاني ...

:# ''Al-Naimat-ul-Kubra Ala al-Alam'' by

:# ''Sharh al-Shifa'' by Ali al-Qari (''a commentary of Ash-Shifa'') :# ''Madarij an-Nabuwwat'' by 'Abd al-Haqq al-Dehlawi :# ''Seerat E Rasool'' by

:# '' Seeratul Mustafa'' by

Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi Muḥammad Idrīs ibn Muḥammad Ismā‘īl Ṣiddīqī Kāndhlawī ( ur, ‎; 20 August 189928 July 1974) was a Deobandi Islamic scholar particularly known as a scholar of hadith and tafsir (exegesis of the Qur'an). He held the post of Sh ...

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Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum ''Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum'' ( ar, الرحيق المختوم; ), is a seerah book, or biography of the Prophet, which was written by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri. This book was awarded first prize by the Muslim World League in a worldwide competitio ...

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Proofs of Prophethood

:# ''Dala'il al-Nubuwwah'' by Al-Bayhaqi

Shama'il

:# Al-Shama'il al-Muhammadiyya by

History

:# ''Jamharah Ansāb al-ʿArab'' by

Hisham ibn al-Kalbi Hishām ibn al-Kalbī ( ar, هشام بن الكلبي), 737 AD – 819 AD/204 AH, also known as Ibn al-Kalbi (), was an Arab historian. His full name was Abu al-Mundhir Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib ibn Bishr al-Kalbi. Born in Kufa, he spent ...

(d.819 AD) :# ''

Book of Idols __NOTOC__The ''Book of Idols'' ('), written by the Arab scholar Hisham ibn al-Kalbi (737–819), describes gods and rites of pre-Islamic Arab religions. The text is critical of pre-Islamic Arabian religion and decries the state of religious corrupt ...

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(d.819 AD) :# '' Kitāb aṭ-Tabaqāt al-Kabīr'' by

Ibn Sa'd Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd ( ar, ابن سعد) and nicknamed ''Scribe of Waqidi'' (''Katib al-Waqidi''), was a scholar and Arabian biographer. Ibn Sa'd was born in 784/785 C ...

(d.845 AD) :# ''Kitab Ma'rifat al-Sahaba'' by Al-Madini (d.849 AD) :# ''Kitab al-Fada'il Sahaba'' by

(d.855 AD) :# '' The Great History'' by

(d.870 AD) :# '' Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa'' by

(d.889 AD) :# '' Fath al-Buldan'' by

Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري) was a 9th-century Muslim historian. One of the eminent Middle Eastern historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and ...

(d.892 AD) :# '' Genealogies of the Nobles (book)'' by

Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī ( ar, أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري) was a 9th-century Muslim historian. One of the eminent Middle Eastern historians of his age, he spent most of his life in Baghdad and ...

(d.892 AD) :# '' Tarikh at-Tabari'' by

(d.923 AD) :# ''Tarikh E Masoodi'' by

Al-Masudi Al-Mas'udi ( ar, أَبُو ٱلْحَسَن عَلِيّ ٱبْن ٱلْحُسَيْن ٱبْن عَلِيّ ٱلْمَسْعُودِيّ, '; –956) was an Arab historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus ...

(d.956 AD) :# ''Works'' of

Ahmad ibn Fadlan Aḥmad ibn Faḍlān ibn al-ʿAbbās ibn Rāšid ibn Ḥammād, ( ar, أحمد بن فضلان بن العباس بن راشد بن حماد; ) commonly known as Ahmad ibn Fadlan, was a 10th-century Muslim traveler, famous for his account of his ...

(d.960 AD) :# ''Al-Kāmil fi Ḍuʿafāʾ ar-Rijāl'' by Ibn 'Adi al-Jurjani (d.976 AD) :# ''

Tabaqat al-Hanabilah Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥanābilah ( en, History of the Hanbalites) ( ar, طبقات الحنابلة, lit=Generations of Hanbalis) is a biographical dictionary covering Hanbali scholars, written by Ibn Abi Ya'la (d. 1131 AD). The book starts from t ...

'' by Al-Qadi Abu Ya'la (d.1066 AD) and Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (d.1393 AD) :# ''Tarikh-e-Baghdad'' by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d.1071 AD) :# '' Al-Istiʿāb'' by Ibn Abd-al-Barr (d.1071 AD) :# ''Tareekh-e-Damishq'' by Ibn `Asakir (d.1176 AD) :# '' Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal'' by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi (d.1203 AD) :# ''

Chach Nama ''Chach Nama'' ( sd, چچ نامو; ur, چچ نامہ; "Story of the Chach"), also known as the ''Fateh nama Sindh'' ( sd, فتح نامه سنڌ; "Story of the conquest of Sindh"), and as ''Tareekh al-Hind wa a's-Sind'' ( ar, تاريخ اله� ...

'' by Kazi Ismail al-Thakafi & Ali bin Ḥamid Kufi (written in 1226 AD) :# ''

Mu'jam Al-Buldan Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) ( ar, ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine Greek ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th-13th centuries). He is known for ...

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Yaqut al-Hamawi Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) ( ar, ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine Greek ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th-13th centuries). He is known fo ...

(d.1229 AD) :# ''

The Complete History ''The Complete History'' (, ''al-Kāmil fit-Tārīkh)'', is a classic Islamic history book written by Ali ibn al-Athir. Composed in ca. 1231AD/628AH, it is one of the most important Islamic historical works. Ibn al-Athir was a contemporary and memb ...

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Ali ibn al-Athir Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Din (Arabic), Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī ( ar, علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري) lived 1160–1233) was an Arab people, ...

(d.1233 AD) :# ''

Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah ''Usd al-ghabah fi marifat al-Saḥabah'' ( ar, أسد الغابة في معرفة الصحابة, lit= The Lions of the Forest and the knowledge about the Companions), commonly known as ''Usa al-Gabah'', is a book by scholar Ali ibn al-Athir. W ...

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Tabaqat-i Nasiri ''Tabaqat-i Nasiri'' ( fa, ), named for ''Sultan'' Nasir-ud-Din, is an elaborate history of the Islamic world written in Persian by Minhaj-i-Siraj Juzjani and completed in 1260. Consisting of 23 volumes and written in a blunt straightforward st ...

Minhaj-i-Siraj Minhaj-al-Din Abu Amr Othman ibn Siraj-al-Din Muhammad Juzjani (born 1193), simply known as Minhaj al-Siraj Juzjani, was a 13th-century Persian historian born in the region of Ghur. In 1227, Juzjani migrated to Ucch then to Delhi. Juzjani was ...

(written in 1260 AD) :# ''Ar Riyadh un Nadhra'' by Muhibuddin Tabri (d.1295 AD) :# ''Minah al-madh'' by

Fatḥ al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nās Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ya'mari, better known as Fatḥ al-Dīn Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, was a Medieval Egyptian theologian who specialized in the field of Hadith, or the recorded prophecies and traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. He was well ...

(d.1334 AD) :# ''

Mizan al-Itidal ''Mizan al-Itidal'' ( ar, لميزان الاعتدال) or ''Mizan al-I'tidal fi Naqd ar-Rijal'' ( ar, لميزان الاعتدال) is one of the most important works of ''Ilm al-Rijal'' (Science of Narrators or Biographical evaluation) writte ...

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(d.1348 AD) :# '' al-Bidayah wan-Nihayah'' by

(d.1373 AD) :# '' Qisas Al-Anbiya'' by

(d.1373 AD) :# ''

Muqaddimah The ''Muqaddimah'', also known as the ''Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun'' ( ar, مقدّمة ابن خلدون) or ''Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena'' ( grc, Προλεγόμενα), is a book written by the Arab The Arabs (singular: Arab; singular ...

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Ibn Khaldun Ibn Khaldun (; ar, أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, ; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732-808 AH) was an Arab The Historical Muhammad', Irving M. Zeitlin, (Polity Press, 2007), p. 21; "It is, of ...

(d.1406 AD) :# ''

Tahdhib al-Tahdhib ''Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal'' ( ar, الكمال في أسماء الرجال) is a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation by the 12th-century Islamic scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdi ...

Ibn Hajar al-'Asqalani Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī or ''Ibn Ḥajar'' ( ar, ابن حجر العسقلاني, full name: ''Shihābud-Dīn Abul-Faḍl Aḥmad ibn Nūrud-Dīn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī al-Kināni'') (18 February 1372 – 2 Febru ...

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History of the Caliphs ''History of the Caliphs'' () is a book written by al-Suyuti (c. 1445-1505), the classic Sunni scholar. It was published in English in 1881 in Calcutta and republished in English at Oriental Press in 1970. The book covers several periods: * R ...

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(d.1505 AD) :# '' Wafa al-Wafa'' by Ali ibn Ahmad al-Samhudi (d.1533 AD) :# ''

Habib al-Siyar Habib ( ar, حبيب, ''ḥabīb''; ), sometimes written as Habeeb, is an Arabic masculine given name, occasional surname, and honorific, with the meaning "beloved" or "my love", or "darling". It also forms the famous Arabic word ‘''Habibi’'' ...

'' by Ghiyās̲ ad-Dīn Khvāndamīr (d. 1534-37 AD) :# '' Tarikh Khamis'' by Husayn ibn Muhammad Diyarbakri (d.1559 AD) :# ''Tarikh-i Firishta'' by Muhammad Qasim Firishta (d.1620 AD) :# ''

Sirat al-Halbiya Sirat al-Halbiya is a book about the history of Islam in six volumes Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi (d.1642 AD) :# ''Al Insaf fi Bayan Asbab Al Iktikaaf'' by

(d.1762 AD) :# '' Sirush Shahadhathayn'' by Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi (d.1824 AD)

Biographies

:# ''Hilyat al-awliya'' by

(d. 430 AH) :# ''Ṣifat al-Ṣafwah'' by

(d. 597 AH) :# by

Al-Dhahabi Shams ad-Dīn adh-Dhahabī (), also known as Shams ad-Dīn Abū ʿAbdillāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn ʿUthmān ibn Qāymāẓ ibn ʿAbdillāh at-Turkumānī al-Fāriqī ad-Dimashqī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was an Islamic historia ...

(d.748 AH)

Tazkiyyah (Purification of Heart)

Basics

:# ''Risalah al-Mustarshidin'' (Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance) by

Harith al-Muhasibi al-Muḥāsibī () was an Arab philosopher, and considered to be the founder of the Baghdad School of Islamic philosophy, and a teacher of the Sufi masters Junayd al-Baghdadi and Sirri Saqti. His full name is Abu Abdullah Harith bin Asad bin ...

(d. 243 AH)

Spiritual Diseases and their Cures

:# ''ʿUyūb al-nafs wa adwiyātuhā'' (Infamies of The Soul And Their Treatments) by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad al-Sulamī al-Nīshāpūri (d. 412 AH) :# ''Ṭibb al-Rūḥāni'' by

(d. 597 AH) :# ''Tanbih al-Mughtarin'' by Al-Sha'rani (d. 973 AH) :# ''Maṭharat al-Qulūb'' by Muḥammad al-Mawlūd (d. 1323 AH)

Dhikr ''Dhikr'' ( ar, ذِكْر}, , also spelled ''Zikr'', ''Thikr'', ''Zekr'', or ''Zikar'', literally meaning "remembrance, reminder" or "mention") is a form of Islamic meditation in which phrases or prayers are repeatedly chanted in order to reme ...

:# ''Al-Da'awat al-Kabir'' by Al-Bayhaqi :# ''Hizb al-Bahr'' by

Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili ( ar, أبو الحسن الشاذلي) (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī) also known as Sheikh al-Shadhili (593–656 AH) (1196–1258 AD ...

:# ''Kitab al-Adhkar'' by

:# '' Al-Wabil al-Sayyib'' by

:# ''

Dala'il al-Khayrat ''Dalāil al-khayrāt wa-shawāriq al-anwār fī dhikr al-ṣalāt alá al-Nabī al-mukhtār'' ( ar, دلائل الخيرات وشوارق الأنوار في ذكر الصلاة على النبي المختار, translation=Waymarks of Benefit ...

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Muhammad al-Jazuli Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī () (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint. He is best known for compiling the '' Dala'il al-Khayrat'', an ext ...

:# ''Al-Hizb ul-Azam'' by Ali al-Qari

Adab (Manners)

:# ''Al-Adab al-Mufrad'' of Muhammad al-Bukhari (d. 256 AH) :# ''Al-Akhlāq wa al-Siyar'' by

Ibn Hazm Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ( ar, أبو محمد علي بن احمد بن سعيد بن حزم; also sometimes known as al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī; 7 November 994 – 15 August 1064Ibn Hazm. ' (Preface). Tr ...

(d. 456 AH) :# ''Fuṣul al-Adab wa Makarim al-Akhlaq al-Mashruʿah'' by

(d. 513 AH)

Zuhd (Asceticism)

:# '' Kitab az-Zuhd wa al-Raqa'iq'' by Ibn al-Mubarak (d. 189 AH) :# ''Kitab al-Zuhd'' by

:# ''Al-Zuhd al-Kabir'' by Al-Bayhaqi

Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, r ...

:# ''al-Arba'in fi 'l-tasawwuf'' by Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Muḥammad al-Sulamī al-Nīshāpūri :# ''Qut al-qulub'' (Sustenance of the Hearts) by

Abu Talib al-Makki Abu Talib Muhammad ibn Ali al-Makki (; died 386 AH/996 AD in Baghdad), was a hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and Sufi mystic. Biography He was born in the Abbasid province of Jibal in the early 3rd AH / 9th AD centuries. Al-Makki grew up in Mecca ...

(d. 386 AH) :# ''Al-Arba`in ala Madhhab al-Mutahaqqiqin min al-Sufiyya'' by

(d. 430 AH) :# ''

Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya fi 'Ilm al-Tasawwuf ( ar, الرسالة القشيرية في علم التصوف, lit=The Qushayriyyan Epistle on the Science of Sufism), mostly known as al-Risala al-Qushayriyya (The Treatise of al-Qushayri), is one of ...

'' by Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465 AH) :# ''

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(d. 465 AH) :# ''Maktubat Imam Rabbani'' by Mujaddid Alf-e-Saani Ahmad Sirhindi (d. 1034 AH)

Islamic Ethics and Philosophy

:# ''Hayat ul Anbiya fi Quboor'' by Al-Bayhaqi (d. 458 AH) :# '' Ihya Ulum al-Din'' by

(d. 505 AH) :# ''

Kimiya-yi sa'ādat ) , translator = Muhammad Mustafa an-Nawali, Claud Field, Jay Crook , image = Alchemy of Happiness.png , caption = Cover of a 1308 Persian copy held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France , author = Al- ...

'' by Al-Ghazali (d. 505 AH) :# ''Al-Fath ar-Rabbani'' by Shaykh Abdul-Qadir Gilani (d. 561 AH) :# '' Al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya'' by

Ibn Arabi Ibn ʿArabī ( ar, ابن عربي, ; full name: , ; 1165–1240), nicknamed al-Qushayrī (, ) and Sulṭān al-ʿĀrifīn (, , 'Sultan of the Knowers'), was an Arab Andalusian Muslim scholar, mystic, poet, and philosopher, extremely influenti ...

(d. 638 AH)

Islamic Economics

:# '' The Economic System In Islam'' by Taqiuddin al-Nabhani :# '' An Introduction to Islamic Finance'' by Muhammad Taqi Usmani :# ''Our Socio-Economic Order'' by Muhammad Taqi Usmani :# ''Present Financial Crisis Causes & Remedies'' by Muhammad Taqi Usmani :# ''The Historic Judgment on Interest'' by Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Islamic Politics

:# ''Kitab al-Kharaj'' by Imam

:# ''Zakhirat al-Muluk'' by

Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani ( fa, میر سید علی همدانی; CE) was a Persian scholar, poet and a Sufi Muslim saint of the Kubrawiya order. He was born in Hamadan, Iran and preached Islam in Central Asia and Kashmir as he travelled to p ...

:# '' Khilafat o Malukiyat'' by Abul Ala Maududi

Poetry

Qasida (Ode)

:# diwan-al Hassan by

hassan Ibn Sabit Ḥassān ibn Thābit ( ar, حسان بن ثابت) (born c. 563, Medina died 674) was an Arabian poet and one of the Sahaba, or companions of Muhammad, hence he was best known for his poems in defense of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He was b ...

Qasidat al-Burdah by

Imam al-Busiri Al-Būṣīrī ( ar, ابو عبد الله محمد بن سعيد بن حماد الصنهاجي البوصيري, Abū ʿAbdallāh Muhammad ibn Saʿīd al-Ṣanhājī al-Būṣīrī; 1212–1294) was a Sanhaji Berber Muslim poet belong ...

Hadaiq-e-Bakhshish by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi Khushbu e Adeeb by Adeeb Raipuri

Critique

Qadiyaniat

:# ''Saife Chishtiyai'' by

Meher Ali Shah Meher Ali Shah ( ur, پیر مہر على شاه‬; 14 April 1859 – May 1937), was a Sufi scholar and a mystic Punjabi poet from Punjab, British India (present-day Pakistan) belonging to the Chishti order. He is known as a Hanafi scholar lea ...

:# ''Signs of Qiyamah and the Arrival of Maseeh'' by Muhammad Shafi :# ''Finality of the Prophethood'' by Muhammad Shafi :# ''Mirza And Yalesh'' by Fuad Al-Attar

Shi'a Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest Islamic schools and branches, branch of Islam. It holds that the Prophets and messengers in Islam, Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, Muhammad designated Ali, ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his S ...

:# Al-Awasim min al-Qawasim by

:# Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah by

:# Taufa Ithna Ashari by Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi

Others

Kitab al-Miraj The ''Kitab al-Mi'raj'' (Arabic: كتاب المعراج "Book of the Ascension") is a book by al-Qushayri (died 1072) concerning the ''Isra and Mi'raj, Miraj'', that is, Muhammad's ascension into Heaven following his miraculous one-night journey f ...

by Abu'l-Qasim al-Nisapuri (alleged); ''A Muslim book concerned with Muhammad's ascension into Heavens (known as the Miraj).''

References

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