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1.	سيدنا ومولانا العارف بالله الشيخ محمد أبو الهدى اليعقوبي الحسني Sayyidi Sh. Muḥammad Al-Yaʿqūbī Al-Ḥasanī Al-Idrisī may Allah preserve him for the

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Bio: ‘Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak

أبو عبد الرحمن عبد الله بن المبارك
b. 118 H. in Merv – d. 181 H. in Hit (736 -797 CE)
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, Scholars of Hadith

Bio: ‘Amr ibn al-‘As

عمرو بن العاص
d. ? H. in Egypt
radiya Allah anhu

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Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, English, Sahaba, Türkçe, عربي

Bio: Abu al-Bayan

أبو البيان نبأ بن محمد بن محفوظ القرشي الدمشقي
d. 551 H. in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

Nabâ ibn Muhammad ibn Mahfûzh al-Qurashi al-Dimashqi
Scholar of language and fiqh, murshid. He used to study shafi`i fiqh together with Sheikh Rislan in a mosque in the grand suq near Bab

Abu al-Bayan, Biography, Bionotes, English, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Abu al-Ma`ali al-Nisaburi

أبو المعالي النيسابوري
d. 578
radiya Allah anhu

أبو المعالي نسعود بن محمد بن مسعود النيسابوري
orator, preacher, shafi`i scholar, lived in damascus, buried in the sufi graveyard

References: [Ziarat al-Sham p.334-5] – Damas Cultural Society ©

Abu al-Ma`ali al-Nisaburi, Biography, Bionotes, English, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Abu Ayyub al Ansari

أبو أيوب الأنصاري
d. 54 H. in Istanbul, Turkey (674 CE) sahaba
radiya Allah anhu

Biography, Bionotes, City: Istanbul, Country: Turkey, English, Map, Sahaba, Scholars of Hadith, Scholars of Islam, Türkçe, عربي

Bio: Abu Bakr al-`Arudiki

born 584 – d. .. H. in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

Of Ahl al-mahabba wa al-tawhid.
Buried at the foot of Qasiun on the western side [Ziarat al-Sham]

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Biography, Bionotes

Bio: Abu Darda

أبو الدرداء الأنصاري الخزرجي
d. 32 H. (653 CE) in Damascus (sahabi)
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, Sahaba

Bio: Abu Dharr al-Ghafari

أبو ذر الغفاري
d. 32 H. in Rabdha, near Madina
radiya Allah anhu

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Abu Dharr al-Ghifari, Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, English, Sahaba, Türkçe, عربي

Bio: Abu Muslim al-Khawlani

“The inburnable”
d. 62 H. in Daria, Damascus
أبو مسلم الخولاني
radiya Allah anhu

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Bionotes, Damascus History, Early Sufis

Bio: Abu Nu’aym Al-Asbahani

أبو نعيم الأصبهاني
b. 336 – d. 430
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, English, Scholars of Hadith

Bio: Abu Shamah al-Maqdisi

b. 599 – d. 665 in Damascus (1202-1267 CE)
الإمام عبد الرحمان بن إسماعيل بن إبراهيم عثمان المقدسي ثم الدمشقي، المعروف بأبي شامة
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, Scholars of Hadith, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Abu Shayba al Khudri

أبو شيبة الخدري
d. 49 H. in Istanbul, Turkey (670 CE) sahabi
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, City: Istanbul, Country: Turkey, English, Map, Sahaba, Scholars of Hadith, Scholars of Islam, Türkçe, عربي

Bio: Abu Sulayman al-Darani

أبو سليمان عبد الرحمن بن عطية الداراني
(d. 215 H. in Dara near Damascus)
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography in Al-Risala al-Qushayriyya – t.b.d.

Biografi Abu Sulayman al-Darani ur al-Qusayri’s

Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, Early Sufis

Bio: Abul Dahdâh al-Salihi

أبو الدحداح، أحمد بن محمد بن إسماعيل التيمي الدمشقي الصالحي
d. 328 in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, Damascus Ziyarat, Scholars of Hadith

Bio: Al-Farazdaq

الفرزدق : أبو فراس همام بن غالب بن صعصعة الدارمي التميمي
b. 38 – d. 114 H. in Basra (641 – 732 CE)
rahimahu Allah

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Arabic poet. A creator of the panegyrical qasida in medieval Arabic poetry.
His work is a

Biography, Bionotes, Poets

Bio: Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi

أبو عبد الله محمد بن علي بن الحسين الترمذي
d. 320 H.
may Allah be pleased with him

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A great sufi

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صحب أبو عبد الله بن الجلاء وأحمد

Biography, Bionotes, Book, Books by Author, Early Sufis

Bio: Al-Harith al-Muhasibi

أبو عبد الله الحارث بن أسد البغدادي المحاسبي
b. 165 H. in Basrah – d. 243 H. in Baghdad
may Allah be pleased with him

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Biography, Bionotes, Early Sufis, English, عربي

Bio: Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi

b. 392 – d. 463 in Baghdad
الخطيب البغدادي‎‎
radiya Allah anhu

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English

By Dr. G.F. Haddad

“Truly, hadith pleases the virile among men, while the effeminate among them hate it.”
Al-Zuhri.

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr Ahmad

Biography, Bionotes, Scholars of Hadith, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Al-Qurtubi

أبو الوليد الأندلسي القرطبي
b. 403 – d. 474 H.
radiya Allah anhu

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English

By Dr. G.F. Haddad

Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa`d or Sa`id or Sa`dun ibn Ayyub, al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujaybi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Baji al-Tamimi

Biography, Bionotes, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Al-Qutb Abu Madyan Shu`ayb – القطب أبو مدين شعيب

Abu Madyan Shu`ayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Tilimsani

b. 509 H. in Cordoba, Andalus - d. 594 H. in Tlimsan, Algeria - radiya Allah anhu
القطب أبو مدين شعيب بن الحسن الأندلسي التلمساني - رضي الله عنه

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Abu Madyan, Biography, Bionotes, Great Sufi Masters, More about Sufism

Bio: Aws b. Aws al-Thaqafi

أوس بن أوس الثقفي
d. towards the end of the caliphate of `Uthman (r)
radiya Allah anhu

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Biography, Bionotes, Sahaba

Bio: Bilal ibn Ribâh al-Habashî

بلال بن رباح الحبشي القرشي التيمي
d. 20 or 18 or 19 H. in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

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Sahabi, buried in Maqbara Bab Saghir in Damascus

English

Freed slave of sayyiduna Abu Bakr,

Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, Sahaba

Bio: Darar b. al-Azwar al-Asadi

ضرار بن الأزور الأسدي
d. 14 or 18 H. (636/640 CE)
radiya Allah anhu

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A great hero before and after Islam. He was present when the Muslims opened Damascus under Khalid ibn al-Walid (in 14 H) and died there. (Zsh)

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Bio: Dihya al-Kalbi

(sahabi d. 45 H. in Damascus)
radiya Allah anhu

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He was one of the Companions of the Prophet (s), whose form Jibril (s) would adopt when he appeared as a person, and who carried the Prophet’s letter to the Roman emperor.

Biography, Bionotes, Dihya al-Kalbi, English, Sahaba

Habib ibn Mohammad al-‘Ajami al-Basri, a Persian settled at Basra, was a noted hadith narrator who transmitted from al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Sirrin, and other authorities. His conversion from a life of ease and self-indulgence was brought about by al-Hasan’s eloquence; he was a frequent attendant at his

Biography, Bionotes, Early Sufis, English, Habib al-`Ajami

Bio: Ibn `Asakir al-Dimashqi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari

b. 499 – d. 571 in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

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The famous historian and greatest hadith scholar of his time. He travelled and heard hadith from over 1000 narrators. Authored several encyclopedic works, among them Tarikh Dimashq.

Biography, Bionotes, Damascus History, Damascus Ziyarat, Scholars of Hadith

Bio: IMAM ABU AL-HASAN AL-ASH`ARI

b. 1244 – d. 1306 H. in Damascus
radiya Allah anhu

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Aqida, Biography, Bionotes, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Imam Abu Hanifa

الأمام الأعظم أبو حنيفة النعمان بن ثابت الكوفيّ
d. 150 in Baghdad
radiya Allah anhu

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English

The Greatest Imam Abu Hanifa

By Dr. G.F. Haddad

Al-Nu`man ibn Thabit al-Taymi, al-Imam

Biography, Bionotes, Scholars of Hadith, Scholars of Islam

Bio: Imam Abul Hasan al-Shadhili

سيدي الإمام أبو الحسن الشاذلي الحسني
b. 593 – d. 656 H in Humaythira. Egypt
qaddasa Allah sirrahu

‘Ali ibn ‘ Abd Allah ibn ‘ Abd al- Jabbar ibn Tamim ibn Hurmuz ibn Hatim ibn Qusay ibn Yusuf ibn Yusha ‘ ibn Ward ibn Battal ibn Idris ibn Muhammad ibn

Biography, Bionotes, Great Sufi Masters, Scholars of Islam, Shadhili, Shadhili Silsila

Bio: Imam Ahmad Raza Khan

d. 1340 H. (1921 CE.) in Bareilly, India

Imam Ahmad Raza Khan
By Mohammad Monawwar Ateeq

Imam Ahmad Raza Khan (d.1921), conventionally known as a leader of the twentieth century Ahl-e Sunnat wa Jama’at tradition (people of the Sunna and the majority) to its followers and to others as

Biography, Bionotes, English, Scholars of Islam, Sh. Ahmad Rada Khan