8th-century Arab people

The first imam of Ibadis, muhaddith and faqih

Kuthayyir ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥman () (c. 660 – c. 723), commonly known as Kuthayyir ‘Azzah () was an Arab 'Udhri poet of the Umayyad period from the tribe of Azd. He was born in Medina and resided in Hijaz and Egypt. In his poems he was occupied with his unfulfilled love to a married woman named 'Azza. Favorite topics in his poetry are love and panegyrics. He made acquaintance of the governor Abd al-Aziz ibn Marwan and the caliphs Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz and Yazid II. He is mentioned as one of the followers of the now-extinct Kaysaniyya sect of Shi'ism, which held that A

Mid-8th century Umayyad governor of al-Andalus

Abu ‘Amr Hafs Ibn ‘Umar Ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz al-Baghdadi, better known as Al-Duri (767-860 CE; 150-246 AH), was a significant figure in the transmission of the Qira'at, or methods of reciting the Qur'an. Of the seven canonical reciters, al-Duri was a transmitter for two entirely separate methods: that of Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' and that of Al-Kisa'i. He was a direct disciple of the latter and an indirect disciple of the former due to a generational gap. al-Duri transmits Abu 'Amr's recitation through Abu Muhammad Yahya ibn al-Mubarak ibn a-Mughirah al-Yazidi (d. 202 AH). Learned men were said to ha

Umayyad poet

8th-century Abbasid Governor of Medina

Abbasid provincial governor (740–789)

8th-century Abbasid military commander

8th-century Umayyad provincial governor

Mother of Shia Imam

Alid religious leader (died c.716)

Umayyad general

eldest son of Ja'far al-Sadiq (died 766)

Yemeni Arabic language grammarian (died 735 CE)

Abbasid general and governor

Abbasid general and provincial governor (750–812)

umayyad princess and Consort

Medinan historian, Jurist and traditionalist

astronomer, literary and linguist

8th C. Umayyad general and governor of Iraq

Abbasid Prince and heir presumptive (born c.789)

8th-century Umayyad prince and general

Umayyad provincial governor and military leader (died 750)

grammarian

11th-century poet

Umayyad governor of Egypt from 709 to 715

Heir apparent of the Abbasid Caliphate

Descendant of Hasan ibn Ali

Arab military commander (died 741)

8th-century Islamic scholar, theologian and hadith narrator

umayyad governor of Al Andalus

governor of Egypt for the Umayyad caliphate from 727 to 735 CE

Hadith narrator and grandson of caliph Umar

Umayyad Governor of Khurasan from 723 to 724

Arab ruler of Ifriqiya (North Africa) from 745 to 755

early scholar of Islam

9th-century self-declared Caliph of the Muslims

8th-century Abbasid commander and governor

governor of Egypt for the Umayyad Caliphate

8th-century Alid and Zaydi leader

leader of Kharijite rebellion in Iraq (died 746)

Iraqi poet

umayyad Provincial governor in 720s

8th-century Arab military general

8th–9th-century Abbasid prince and governor

8th-century Umayyad general and governor

Abbasid provincial governor (died 792)

Bedouin Arab administrator and military leader of the Umayyad Caliphate, in Egypt

official of the Umayyad Caliphate

hadith scholar from Medina (668–763)

Abbasid general and governor (died 766)

Egyptian Umayyad official

umayyad Commander and statesman

Abu Bakr Shu‘bah Ibn ‘Ayyash Ibn Salim al-Asadi al-Kufi an-Nahshali (, 95-193 AH/713-808 CE), more commonly known as '''Shu'bah''', is a significant figure in the history of Qur'an readings as well as a hadith narrator. Like Hafs, Shu'bah narrated one of seven conical readings of the Quran from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud, though the reading of Hafs is more well known in the Muslim world today.

Chief judge of Abbasid Caliphate

abbasid Provincial governor

Iraqi poet

Abbasid prince and governor (771–810/11)