Hadith scholars

Persian Islamic scholar (810-870)

Arab Muslim hadith scholar (821–875)

Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, jurist, philosopher and theologian (994–1064)

companion of Muhammad (594–656)

companion of Muhammad

Syrian Islamic historian, exegete and scholar (c.1300–1373)

Muslim theologian (874–936)

Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi (; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209–279 AH), often referred to as Imām at-Termezī/Tirmidhī, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez (early Khorasan and in present-day Uzbekistan). He wrote al-Jami` as-Sahih (known as Jami` at-Tirmidhi), one of the six canonical hadith compilations in Sunni Islam. He also wrote ''Shama'il Muhammadiyah (popularly known as Shama'il at-Tirmidhi''), a compilation of hadiths concerning the person and character of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. At-Tirmidhi was also well versed in Arabic grammar, favoring the school of

Arab hagiographer and historian (704–767)

Islamic historian, theologian and geographer (1160–1232/3)

Egyptian Islamic scholar (1372–1449)

Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi () (October 1233 – 21 December 1277) was a Sunni Shafi'ite jurist and hadith scholar. Al-Nawawi died at the relatively early age of 45. Despite this, he authored numerous and lengthy works ranging from hadith, to theology, biography, and jurisprudence that are still read to this day. Al-Nawawi, along with Abu al-Qasim al-Rafi'i, are leading jurists of the earlier classical age, known by the Shafi'i school as the Two Shaykhs (al-Shaykhayn).

Persian Hadith compiler (824–886)

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (; 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science. For this reason, he was honoured one of the most prestigious and rarest titles: Shaykh al-Islām.

Shams ad-Dīn Al Dhahabī (5 October 1274 – 3 February 1348) was a Syrian Sunni Muslim historian, biographer, and hadith scholar. He authored major biographical and historical works including ''Siyar A'lam al-Nubala, Tadhkirat al-Huffaz, and Tarikh al-Islam''.

Persian Muslim theologian (853–944)

Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani (born Muhamed Nasirudin Nexhati; 16 August 19143 October 1999), commonly known as al-Albani, was an Albanian Islamic hadith scholar (muhaddith), regarded as one of the prominent figures of modern Salafism. He was known for his rigorous re-evaluation of hadith literature and for rejecting adherence to traditional schools of jurisprudence. Al-Albani became a controversial yet-influential reformer within Sunni Islam.

Indian muslim scholar

Arab Muslim preacher and scholar (c.1116–1201)

Islamic scholar and founder of Thawri Madhhab (716–778)

13th century Muslim scholar and author

islamic hadith Scholar and jurist (726–797)

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī () (853 – 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian. He studied with his uncle al-Muzani and was a Shafi'i jurist, before then changing to the Hanafi school. He is known for his work al-'Aqidah al-Tahawiyyah, a summary of Sunni Islamic creed which influenced Hanafis in Egypt.

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (, 994–1066), also known as Imām al-Bayhaqī, was a Sunni scholar widely known for being the foremost leading hadith master in his age, leading authority in the Shafi'i school, leading authority on the foundation of doctrine, meticulous, a devoted ascetic and one of the notable defenders of the Ash'ari school. Al-Dhahabi said: "Unequalled in his age, unrivalled amongst his peers, and the Ḥāfiẓ of his time."

Arab scholar, biographer and historian (784/5-845)

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib (; –1058), commonly known by the nisba al-Mawardi (), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian, sociologist and an expert in political science. He is considered to be an eminent scholar of his time who wrote on numerous subjects, including Qur'anic interpretations, religion, government, public and constitutional law, language, ethics and belles-lettres.

muhaddith, historian and Hafiz

Medina-based Muslim scholar (642–715)

Iranian historian

Arab jurist, scholar and traditionist (677/78-741/42)

Islamic scholar and historian (1105–1176)

Companion of Muhammad

thumb | right | alt=Books of the people of the Sunnah and the community. | Books of the people of the Sunnah and the community. A muhaddith () is a scholar specialized in the study, collection, and interpretation of hadiths, which are the recorded sayings, actions, and approvals of the Prophet Muhammad. The role of a muhaddith is central to the science of hadith (ʻilm al-ḥadīth), a key field for understanding and preserving Islamic teachings and laws. Muhaddith can either disseminate the hadiths or compile them into an ahadith.

Arab Muslim scholar and Jurist (1147–1223)

Sunni scholar

Hadith compiler

Indian freedom struggle leader and scholar

Indian Muslim scholar (1863–1943)

'''Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), also known as al-Baghawī' () was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar based in Khorasan. He was a prominent Quran exegete (mufassir), traditionist (muhaddith''), and Shafi'i jurist (faqih). He best known for his two major works, Maʻālim at-Tanzīl and Masabih as-Sunnah.

Moorish scholar

muhaddith and Hafiz (0778-0853)

Muslim historian

Iranian Twelver Shi'a cleric (c.1627 – 1699)

Islamic scholar

Fakhr-un-Nisa Shuhdah Umm Muhammad al-Baghdadiyyah or Shuhdah al-Baghdadiyyah (died 1112) was a Kurdish scholar, muhaddith and a calligrapher. Shuhdha was called "the calligrapher, the pride of womanhood, a muhaddithah (female of muhaddith) of Iraq with a high Isnad."

Arab scholar of Maliki fiqh (1083–1149)

Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Darimi (; 797–869 CE) was a Muslim scholar and Imam of Arab or Persian ancestry. His best known work is Sunan al-Darimi, a book collection of hadith, considered one of the Nine Books (Al-Kutub Al-Tis’ah).

Muslim Arab scholar of Islam

Arab poet and linguist

Sunni Hanafi Islamic scholar (1360–1453 CE)

16th-century Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar

Muslim Scholar

Arab grammarian

Abū Abdullāh Badr ad-Dīn Mohammed bin Abdullah bin Bahādir az-Zarkashī (1344–1392/ 745–794 AH), better known as Az-Zarkashī, was a fourteenth-century Islamic scholar. He primarily resided in Mamluk-era Cairo. He specialized in the fields of law, hadith, history, and Shafi'i legal jurisprudence (fiqh). He left behind thirty compendia, but the majority of these are lost to modern researchers, and only the titles are known. One of his most famous works that has survived is ''al-Burhān fī 'Ulūm al-Qur'ān'', a manual of the Qur'anic sciences.

Moorish scholar

Al-Damiri (1341–1405), the common name of Kamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Musa al-Damiri (), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic from late medieval Cairo. He was best known for his writing on Muslim jurisprudence and natural history. He wrote the first known systematic work on zoological knowledge in Arabic, the Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā, 1371.

11th century Islamic scholar

Ali ibn Umar al-Daraqutni (; 918–995 CE / 306–385 AH), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and traditionist best known for compiling the hadith collection Sunan al-Daraqutni. He is commonly celebrated in Sunni tradition with titles such as "Imam" and "Amir al-Mu'minin fi al-Hadith".

Meccan Islamic religious scholar (725–814)

Muslim Imam