People from Medina

Jamal Ahmad Hamza Khashoggi was a Saudi journalist, dissident, author, columnist and editor. Khashoggi was assassinated at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October 2018 by agents of the Saudi government at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Umayyad caliph from 685 to 705

Umayyad caliph

Umayyad caliph

Arab hagiographer and historian (704–767)

an Islamic term that literally means "helpers" and denotes the Medinan citizens that helped Muhammad and the Muhajirun on the arrival to the city after the migration to Medina

eleventh of the Twelve Shia Imams

Companion and the standard-bearer of Muhammad

Alid political and religious leader (c.695–740)

Granddaughter of the Islamic prophet Muhammad

Arabic scribe and Qur'anic collator (c.610-c.660)

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Waqid al-Aslami () ( – 207 AH; commonly referred to as al-Waqidi (Arabic: ; c. 747 – 823 AD) was an early Arab Muslim historian and biographer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specializing in his military campaigns. His surname is derived from his grandfather's name Waqid, and thus he became famous as al-Imam al-Waqidi. He served as a judge (qadi) for the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. Several of al-Waqidi's works are known through his scribe and student (in the field of the al-maghazi genre), Ibn Sa'd.

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

anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center

Saudi imam

poet of the Ummayad clan

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one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qira'at (689–785)

Sahabah

Indian hadith scholar and ideologist of Tablighi Jamaat (1898–1982)

son of Zayd ibn Ali

Islamic theologian and jurist (c.670–714 CE)

Rashidun army leader and a companion of Muhammad

Pakistani actress and model

10th-century Arab religious leader; founder of the Zaydi Imamate

companion of Muhammad

Saudi imam

Saudi imam (died 2022)

preacher and scholar with Indonesian nationality (1976-2021)

Muslim military leader and governor (died 678/679)

Leading Arab Muslim historian and genealogist

Iranian poet

companion of Muhammad

8th-century Islamic scholar, theologian and hadith narrator

Mukhayriq ibn al-Nadir () was an Arabian Jewish rabbi who belonged to the Banu Qainuqa' tribe of Medina and fought alongside Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Battle of Uhud on 19 March 625.

Son of the tenth Shia Imam (c. 840–885)

Arabian Qiyan-courtesan musician, singer and poet.

Zaydi Shia imam (785-860)

8th-century Muslim mystic and Sufi

Arabic poet of the Umayyad period

Pakistani actress

Turkish banker and statesperson (1913–1994)

Nashit ( derived from ; ) was a singer of Persian origin, acquired as a slave by Abd Allah b. Dja'far b. Abi Talib, and who flourished in the second half of the 1st century A.H. in Medina.

poet

Sheikh of the Imams of Haramayn

emir of Tabaristan, Zaydi Imam

Late 7th-century Arab commander and rebel

Umayyad general and military governor of Khurasan (died c.680)

Arab poet of Abbasid period

arabian political figure

Leader of revolt against Abbasid Caliphate (716–763)

8th-century Sindhi Muslim scholar of hadith

Arabic poet, musician and singer of Abbasid period

Arab commander of mojaheds in Chechnya, North Caucasus

Saudi Arabian journalist and columnist

Iranian composer and writer (8th century)

Saudi Arabian news publisher (1931–2006)

notable man in medieval Medina

7th-century notable of the Quraysh in Medina