Hadith scholars

Sunni Islamic scholar (778–849)

Eighth-century Meccan Islamic scholar

Islamic theologian and historian

10th-century Persian scholar

Firuzabadi ( ; 1329–1414), whose proper name was '''Abu 'l-Ṭāhir Muḥammad ib Yaʿqūb ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm Majd al-Dīn al-Shāfiʿī al-Shīrāzī' (), was a Persian Sunni Muslim polymath. He excelled in hadith, grammar, philology, history, literature, poetry and Islamic jurisprudence. He was a revered narrator and preserver of Prophetic traditions. Regarded as a major linguist and one of the prominent scholars of the 15th century. He was one of the leading lexicographers in the medieval Islamic world. He was the compiler of Al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ "The Encompassing Ōkeanós''", a comprehensive Arabic di

Iranian Shia cleric (1877–1941)

The Great Islamic Scholar (1829-1905)

Muslim scholar of medieval period

Islamic scholar

Arab philologist

Muslim jurist, theologian and historian (1067–1142)

Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Sakhāwī (, 1428/831 AH – 1497/902 AH) was a Shafi‘i Muslim hadith scholar and historian who was born in Cairo. Al-Sakhawi refers to the village of Sakha in Egypt, where his relatives belonged. He was a prolific writer that excelled in the knowledge of hadith, tafsir, literature, and history. His work was also anthropological. For example, in Egypt he recorded the marital history of 500 women, the largest sample on marriage in the Middle Ages, and found that at least a third of all women in the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt and the Bilad al-Sham married m

Egyptian theologian

Egyptian scholar and Sharia judge (1892–1958)

10th century Islamic theologian, muhaddith and faqih from Baghdad

9th-century Persian hadith scholar

Syrian Islamic Scholar (1256–1341 CE)

Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia (1933–2025)

Islamic scholar

Afghan Islamic philosopher and scholar (died 1605/06)

'''Abu 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn al-Sulami al-Shafi'i (), commonly known as al-Sulami''' (947-1034), was a Shafi'i muhaddith (Hadith Master), muffassir (Qur'anic commentator), shaykh of the Awliya, Sufi hagiographer, and a prolific writer. Al-Dhahabi said of him: "He was of very high status."

Indian-born Saudi Arabian hadith scholar (1930–2017)

'''Abu Abd Allah Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn 'Urfa ibn Sulayman ibn al-Mughira ibn Habib ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abi Sufra al-Azdi () better known as Niftawayh''', was a Medieval Muslim scholar. He was considered to be the best writer of his time, in addition to an expert in Muslim prophetic tradition and comparative readings of the Qur'an.

Sunni Imam

Islamic studies scholar

Ottoman Grand Mufti of Mecca (1816–1886)

Islamic studies scholar (1933–2001)

Muslim scholar (1325-1404)

18th-century Islamic scholar

Iraqi mufassir and traditionalist

'''Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani (1492/3–1565, AH 898–973, full name ') was a highly influential Egyptian scholar. He was an eminent jurist, traditionist, historian, mystic and theologian. He was one of the Islamic revivalists and scholastic saints of the sixteenth century. He is credited for reviving Islam and is one of the most prolific writers of the early Egyptian-Ottoman period. His legal, spiritual, and theological writings are still widely read in the Muslim world today. He is regarded as "one of the last original thinkers in Islam." He was the founder of an Egyptian order of Su

Harari Islamic scholar

12th-century Islamic scholar

Muslim historian

Shafi'i Islamic scholar (1284–1355)

،Kurdish poet and historian

Hanbali Islamic scholar (1173–1245)

Indian Islamic scholar and author

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khallād al-Rāmahurmuzī () (?–before 971 CE/360 AH), commonly referred to in medieval literature as Ibn al-Khallād, was a Persian hadith specialist and author who wrote one of the first comprehensive books compiled in hadith terminology literature, al-Muḥaddith al-Fāṣil bayn al-Rāwī wa al-Wāʻī.

Islamic scholar

Muslim scholar

Syrian-Albanian scholar (1928–2016)

Syrian Islamic scholar

Iraqi collector of hadith (750/1-819/20)

Indian Muslim scholar and community leader (1832–1890)

Hadith scholar of Mosul

Sunni scholar, Hadith master

Muḥammad ibn Ali ibn Muḥammad ibn Abd Allah, better known as al-Shawkani () (11 July 1759–30 October 1834) was a prominent Yemeni Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, theologian and reformer. Al-Shawkani was one of the most influential proponents of Athari theology and is respected as one of their canonical scholars by Salafi Muslims. His teachings played a major role in the emergence of the Salafi movement. Influenced by the teachings of the medieval Hanbali scholar Ibn Taymiyya, al-Shawkani became noteworthy for his staunch stances against the practice of Taqlid (imitation to legal schools), calls

Muhammad Zahid ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī (; –1952), commonly known by the al-Kawthari (), was an Islamic scholar and theologian. A prolific author of over 40 works, al-Kawthari followed the Hanafi school of jurisprudence and championed the Maturidi school of theology.

Andalusian traditionalist and biographer

Shafi'i Islamic scholar

Islamic scholar

astronomer

Indian Sunni Muslim scholar and author

Hadith scholar and narrator

9th-century Persian Muslim scholar

Hadith Master (Hafidh), the Hanbali Legal Jurist (Faqih), and an ascetic

Moorish scholar

Indian Islamic Hanafi scholar (1848–1886)

14th-century Islamic scholar