Biography Of Al-Layth ibn As-Sa’ad (d. 175AH)
Name, Lineage, and Background Al-Layth ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Abū al-Ḥārith al-Fahmī, was the imām, ḥāfiẓ, and chief scholar…
The Salaf As Salihin (Righteous Predecessors)
ISHAQ. K Biography Of Hammad ibn Salamah (d. 167AH)
Name, Lineage, and Titles Ḥammād ibn Salamah ibn Dīnār, Abū Salamah al-Baṣrī, was an imām, a model of piety and…
Biography Of The Great Imam Sufyan ath-Thawri (d. 161AH)
Early Life And Lineage Sufyan ibn Saʿid ibn Masruq ibn Habib al-Thawri traced his lineage back to ʿAdnan. Some narrations…
Biography Of Ibn Al-Majishun (d. 164AH)
Name and background His full name was ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Salamah. His nickname was al-Mājishūn. He…
Biography Of Ibn Jurayj (d. 150AH)
Name and background His full name was ʿAbd al-Malik ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAziz ibn Jurayj. He was an imam, scholar, memoriser,…
Biography Of Al-‘Amash (d. 148AH)
Name and lineage Al-Aʿmash was Sulaiman ibn Mihran, an imam and Shaykh al-Islam, and a leading teacher of reciters and…
Biography Of Jafar as-Sadiq (d. 148AH)
Name and Lineage Jaʿfar ibn Muhammad ibn ʿAli ibn al-Husayn ibn ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, the Imam, known as as-Sadiq.…
Biography Of Yunus ibn Ubayd (d. 139AH)
Name and Status Yunus ibn Ubayd ibn Dinar, known as Abu Abdullah al-ʿAbdi, was a freedman of the ʿAbd al-Qays…
Biography Of Zayd ibn Aslam (d. 136AH)
Name and Status Zayd ibn Aslam al-ʿAdawi al-ʿUmari al-Madani was the imam, jurist, and role model, known as Abu Abdullah.…
Biography Of Muhammad ibn Al-Munkadir (d. 131AH)
Full Name, Lineage, and Background Muhammad ibn al-Munkadir was the son of Abdullah ibn al-Hudayr ibn Abd al-ʿUzza al-Qurashi al-Taymi…