Sharia

Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī (Arabic: يَعْقُوبُ بْنُ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ, lit. 'Jacob, son of Abraham, the Ansari': ; 729-798), commonly known as Abū Yūsuf (Arabic: أَبُو يُوسُفَ, lit. 'Father of Joseph'), was a prominent Muslim jurist and one of the foremost authorities of the early Hanafi school of Islamic law.

Abu Muhammad Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib ibn Hazn al-Makhzumi (Arabic: سعید بن المسیب, romanized: Saʿīd ibn al-Musayyib; 637-715) was one of the foremost authorities of jurisprudence (fiqh) among the taba'een (generation succeeding the companions of Muhammad who are referred to as the sahaba).

موسى بن عياض اليحصبي السبتي), better known as Qāḍī Iyāḍ (Arabic: قاضي عياض) (1083-1149), was a Sunni polymath and considered the leading scholar in Maliki fiqh and hadith in his time.

He was considered a leading Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist.

Abū Ḥanīfa Ali ibn al-Nuʿmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Manṣūr ibn Aḥmad ibn Ḥayyūn al-Tamīmiyy (Arabic: علي بن النعمان بن محمد بن منصور بن أحمد بن حيون التميمي), generally known as al-Qāḍī al-Nu‘mān (القاضي النعمان) or as ibn Ḥayyūn (ابن حيون) (died 974 CE/363 AH) was an Isma'ili jurist, hadith scholar and the official historian of the Fatimid Caliphate.

The Imam, a leading authority on kalam and usul, the transmitter of Al-Ash`ari's school, an expert in Arabic language, grammar and poetry, an orator, a jurist, and a hadith master from the Shafi'i Madhhab in 10th century.

He is considered the leading specialist in fiqh, usul al-fiqh, hadith, usul al-hadith, tafsir, ulum al-Qur'an (Qur'anic sciences), Qu'ranic recitation, grammar, linguistic, rhetoric, philology, history, literature, genealogy, kalam (Islamic theology), logic and Sufism.

بن حسين بن علي بن موسی خسروجردی بيهقی, 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.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Qurṭubī (Arabic: أبو عبدالله القرطبي; 1214-29 April 1273) was an Arab Andalusian Sunni Muslim polymath, Maliki jurisconsult, mufassir, muhaddith and an expert in the Arabic language.

He was a prominent Hanbali jurist, traditionist, historian, theologian and preacher.

known by his titles, Sultan al-'Ulama/ Sulthanul Ulama, Abu Muhammad al-Sulami, was a famous mujtahid, Ash'ari theologian, jurist and the leading Shafi'i authority of his generation.

al-Din al-'Iraqi (Arabic: زين الدين العراقي or shortly Al-Ḥāfiẓ al-ʿIrāqī (Arabic: ابن الملقن; 725-806 AH/ 1325-1403 CE) was an Egyptian-Kurdish Islamic scholar.

He is considered one of the greatest Shafi'i jurisconsult and hadith scholar of his time.

In 1390 he returned to Medina, where he professed adherence to Maliki Islam and became qāḍa (judge).

He was an influential jurist, hadith specialist, historian, muhaqqiq (researcher), and well-versed in the Arabic language.

Al-Ḥasan ibn ʻAlī al-Barbahārī was a Hanbali Sunni Muslim theologian from Iraq.

He was an Islamic theologian and a Hanbali jurist based in Baghdad, Iraq.

Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn ʿUmar b. al-Ḥusayn al-Makkī, also known as Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Makkī (Arabic: ضياء الدين المالكي) was a well-known Ash'arite theologian and Shafi'i jurist.

He was a faqīh (jurist) and a muhaddith (scholar of hadith).

He was a student of Al-Ghazali and was responsible for spreading his teachings of Shafite Law in Nishapur.

He excelled in hadith, grammar, philology, history, literature, poetry and Islamic jurisprudence.

Ibn al-Samʿānī (Arabic: إبن السمعاني, 1113-1166), full name Abū Saʿd ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn Abi ʾl-Muẓaffar Manṣūr al-Tamīmī al-Marwazī al-Shafiʿī al-Samʿānī, nicknamed Tāj al-Islām (Crown of Islam) and Qiwām al-Dīn (Support of the Faith), was an Arab Muslim scholar of biography, history, hadith, Shafi'i jurisprudence and scriptural exegesis.

He was a Baghdad-educated Shafi'ite legal scholar who had also studied under al-Ash'ari, the theologian in Basrah.

تاج الدين أبو الفضل أحمد بن محمد بن عبد الكريم بن عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن أحمد بن عيسى بن الحسين بن عطاء الله الجذامي السكندري) was an Egyptian Maliki jurist, muhaddith and the third murshid (spiritual "guide" or "master") of the Shadhiliyya Sufi order after his teacher Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi.

is one of the most important authors in the field of Maliki common law. He is the author of the well-known Lamiyat al- Zaqqaq (the po

lit. 'Fatwa of the Alamgir'), is a 17th-century sharia based compilation on statecraft, general ethics, military strategy, economic policy

Capital punishment in Islam is traditionally regulated by sharia, which is derived from the Quran and ahadith

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْزَة ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ; 716-778 CE / 97-161 AH), commonly known as Sufyān al-Thawrī (Arabic: سُفْيَان ٱلثَّوْرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, ascetic, tr

Dāwūd ibn ʿAlī ibn Khalaf al-Ẓāhirī (Arabic: دَاوُدُ بنُ عَلِيِّ بنِ خَلَفٍ الظَّاهِرِيُّ; 815-883 CE / 199-269 AH) was a Persian Sunnī Muslim scholar, jurist, and theologian during the Islamic Golden Age, specialized in the study of Islamic law (sharīʿa) and the fields of hermeneutics, biographical evaluation, and historiograph

Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Yūsuf ibn ʿAli ibn al-Muṭahhar al-Ḥillī (Arabic: جمال الدين الحسن بن يوسف بن علي بن مطهّر الحلي; December 1250 - December 1325), commonly known as al-Allāmah al-Ḥillī (Arabic: العلامة الحلي, "The Sage of Hillah"), was a Twelver Shi'a Muslim scholar and theologian of Iraqi Arab descent.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad al-Shaybānī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن الحسن بن فرقد الشيباني; 749/750-805), commonly known as Imam Muḥammad al-Shaybānī, was an Arab Muslim jurist, legal theorist, and a leading authority of the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Burhān al-Dīn Abu’l-Ḥasan ‘Alī bin Abī Bakr bin ‘Abd al-Jalīl al-Farghānī al-Marghīnānī (Arabic: برهان الدين المرغيناني) (1135-1197) was an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of jurisprudence.

Abū ʿAmr ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAmr al-Awzāʿī (Arabic: أَبُو عَمْرو عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن بْن عَمْرو ٱلْأَوْزَاعِيّ; 707-774) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and the chief representative and eponym of the Awza'i school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Al-Layth ibn Saʿd ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Fahmī al-Qalqashandī (Arabic: الليث بن سعد بن عبد الرحمن الفهمي القلقشندي) was an Egyptian and the chief representative, imam, and eponym of the Laythi school of Islamic Jurisprudence.

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839-923 CE / 224-310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (Arabic: ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.

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 (Arabic: البغوي) was a Persian Sunni Muslim scholar based in Khorasan.

Qadi Baydawi (also known as Naṣir ad-Din al-Bayḍawi, also spelled Baidawi, Bayzawi and Beyzavi; d.

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.

Burhān ad-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ḥalabī (Arabic: برهان الدين ٳبراهيم بن محمد بن ٳبراهيم الحلبى) was an Islamic jurist (faqīh) who was born around 1460 in Aleppo, and who died in 1549 in Istanbul.

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Shihāb ad-Dīn Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥallī (Arabic: جلال الدين أبو عبد الله محمد بن شهاب الدين أحمد بن كمال الدين محمد بن إبراهيم بن أحمد بن هاشم العباسي الأنصاري المحلّي; commonly known as Al-Maḥallī (Arabic: المحلي; 1389-1459 CE) was an Egyptian Sunni scholar.

Muwaffaq al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Qudāma al-Maqdisī (Arabic: ابن قدامة المقدسي; January-February 1147 - 7 July 1223), commonly known as Ibn Qudāma, was a Sunni Islamic scholar, jurist, Athari theologian, and ascetic of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Abū Naṣr Tāj al-Dīn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn ʻAbd al-Kāfī al-Subkī (Arabic: تاج الدين عبد الوهاب بن علي بن عبد الكافي السبكي);, or Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī (Arabic: تاج الدين السبكي); or simply Ibn al-Subki (1327-1370) was a preeminent Sunni Islamic scholar based in Egypt and the Levant.

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn ʿAlī al-Rāzī (Arabic: أبو بكر أحمد بن علي الرازي), widely known as al-Jaṣṣāṣ (Arabic: الجصاص; 370-305 AH/ 917-981 CE), was a leading Hanafi jurist and Qurʾān exegete in Baghdad of his time.

al-Ḥasan Imām al-Din Abū al-Qāsim al-Rāfi'i al-Qazwini, who was better known as Abū al-Qāsim al-Rāfi'i (Arabic: أبو القاسم الرافعي) was a Sunni Muslim scholar based in Qazvin.

Abd al-Ghaffar al-Ījī (1281-1356), better known as Aḍud al-Din al-Ījī (Arabic: عضد الدين الإيجي) was an Islamic scholar from the Ilkhanate period.

Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī (Arabic: أَبُو جَعْفَر أَحْمَد ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī) (853 - 5 November 933), commonly known as at-Tahawi (Arabic: ٱلطَّحَاوِيّ, romanized: aṭ-Ṭaḥāwī), was an Egyptian Arab Hanafi jurist and Traditionalist theologian.

Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn Mūsā al-Shāṭibī (720-790 AH/1320 - 1388 C.E.) was an Andalusí Sunni Islamic scholar.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ṭayyib al-Bāqillānī (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْر مُحَمَّد بْن ٱلطَّيِّب ٱلْبَاقِلَّانِيّ; 950 - 5 June 1013), was a Sunni Muslim scholar and polymath who specialized in speculative Islamic theology, jurisprudence, logic, and hadith.

Abū Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn Aḥmad ibn Mūsā Badr al-Dīn al-ʿAynī, often quoted simply as al-'Ayni (Arabic: بدر الدين العيني, romanized: Badr al-ʿAynī; born 26 Ramadan 762 AH/30 July 1360 CE, died 855 AH/1453 CE) was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab and the Shadhili tariqa.

Ibn Abī Zayd (Arabic: ابن أبي زيد القيرواني; 922-996), fully Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Nafzawī ibn Abī Zayd al-Qayrawanī, was a Maliki scholar from Kairouan in Tunisia and was also an active proponent of Ash'ari thought.

Sadr ad-Dīn Abu'l Ḥasan ʿAlī Ibn Abī al-ʻIzz (Arabic: صَدرُ الدين أبو الحسن عليُّ بن علاءِ الدين الدمشقي الصالحيَّ) was a 14th-century Arab Muslim scholar.

He was an Ash'arī theologian, Mālikī jurist, Sufi saint and mufti centred in Tlemcen.

al-Khaṭṭāb Abū Sulaymān al-Khaṭṭābī, al-Bustī, commonly known as Al-Khaṭṭābī (Arabic: الخطابي), was a Sunni Islamic scholar from Sijistan.

Jamāl al-Dīn abū ʿAmr ʿUthmān ibn ʿUmar ibn Abī bakr al-Mālikī (died in 1249 in Alexandria), known as Ibn al-Ḥājib, was a Kurdish grammarian and jurist who earned a reputation as a prominent Maliki faqīh.

Shams al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Shirbani al-Khatib also known as al-Khaṭīb ash-Shirbīniy (الخطيب الشربيني, was an Egyptian Sunni scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i jurisprudence, legal theory, Qu'ran exegesis, and Arabic language.

He was a prominent Shafi'i jurist and considered a leading legal theoretician and Ash'arite theologian of his day.

Abd al-Karīm al-Barzanjī (1716-1764) was a Kurdish Sunni Shafi'i jurist who served as the Shafi'i Mufti of Medina.

Jamāl al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Raḥīm ibn al-Ḥasan al-Umawī al-Qurashī al-Isnawī al-Shāfiʿī al-Miṣrī (Arabic: جمال الدين أبو محمد عبد الرحيم الحسن الأموي القرشي الإسنوي الشافعي), commonly known as Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi (Arabic: جمال الدين الإسنوي), was a Sunni Egyptian scholar who specialized in the Shafi'i school of jurispru

ʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي), more commonly known as Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (Arabic: أبو الليث السمرقندي‎), was a renowned Hanafi jurist and Qur'anic exegete from Samarqand in Transoxiana (modern-day Uzbekistan).

Najm ad-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ 'Umar ibn Muḥammad an-Nasafī (Arabic: نجم الدين أبو حفص عمر بن محمد النسفي‎; 1067-1142) was a Muslim jurist, theologian, mufassir, muhaddith and historian.

Abu'l Qāsim ʿAbd ar-Raḥman bin ʿAbdullah bin ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (Arabic: أبو القاسم عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله بن عبد الحكم), generally known simply as Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam (ابن عبد الحكم; 801 AD - 257 AH / 871 AD) was a Sunni Muslim historian and jurist from Fustat, Egypt.

Abū Ibrāīm Ismā'īl ibn Yahyā Ibn Ismā'īl Ibn 'Amr Ibn Muslim Al-Muzanī Al-Misrī (791-878 AD/ 174-264 Hijri) was an Islamic jurist and theologian and one of leading member of Shafi'i school.

Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi (Arabic: علي بن أحمد السمهودي), better known as Nur al-Din al-Samhudi (Arabic: نور الدين السمهودي) was an Arab Sunni Islamic scholar from the 15th century.

Abu al-Walid al-Baji, full name Sulayman ibn Khalaf ibn Saʿd (or Saʿdun) ibn Ayyub al-Qadi Abu al-Walid al-Tujibi al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi (28 May 1013 - 21 December 1081), was a Sunni scholar from Beja in al-Andalus.

Shihāb al-Dīn Abu ’l-Abbās Aḥmad ibn Abi ’l-ʿAlāʾ Idrīs ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Yallīn al-Ṣanhājī al-Ṣaʿīdī al-Bahfashīmī al-Būshī al-Bahnasī al-Miṣrī al-Mālikī (Arabic: شهاب الدين القرافي) (also known as simply known as Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qarāfī or al-Qarāfī, 1228-1285), was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Sanhaja Berber

Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ibn ʿAlī ibn Naṣr ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥusayn ibn Hārūn ibn Malik ibn Tawk al-Taghlibī (Arabic: القاضي عبد الوهاب بن علي بن نصر بن أحمد بن الحسين بن هارون بن مالك بن طوق التغلبي); commonly known as Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (Arabic: القاضي عبد الوهاب; 422-362 AH/ 973-1035 CE) was an Iraqi Sunni scholar.

Abu Bakr al-Khassaf (Arabic: أبو بكر الخصاف,Abu Bakr Al-Ḫaṣṣāf ) (died 874, full name Abu-Bakr Ahmad Ibn-Amru ash-Shaybani al-Khassaf) was a Hanafite law scholar (Qadi) at the court of the 14th Abbasid caliph al-Muhtadi.

Abān was an early Sunni Islamic scholar who followed the Hanafi madhhab.

Sayyidi ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣaghīr ibn Muḥammad ibn Sayyidi ʿĀmir al-Akẖḍarī al-Bīsīkrī (Arabic: سيدي عبد الرحمن بن محمد الصغير بن محمد بن سيدي عمرو الأخضري; 1512-1575), better known as Al-Akẖḍari (Arabic: الأخضري), was an Arab poet, logician, astronomer and Maliki jurist.

Abu ʾl-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Khalaf al-Maʿāfirī al-Qābiṣī (935-1012) was a leading Ifrīqiyan scholar (uṣūlī) of the Mālikī school of Islamic jurisprudence (fiḳh).

1597-1672) was a Sunni Muslim scholar and jurist of the Hanbali school.

Al-Juwayni, `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn `Abd Allah ibn Yusuf ibn Muhammad ibn Hayyuya, Rukn al-Din Abu Muhammad al-Ta'i al-Sinbisi al-Naysaburi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari, also known as Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni (Arabic: أبو محمد الجويني), was a Sunni scholar based in Khorasan.

Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf ibn Saʿāda al-Mursī (1103-1170) was an Andalusī Muslim judge and scholar with Ṣūfī tendencies.

Ḥalīm al-Bukhārī al-Jurjānī al-Shāfiʿī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله الحليمي القاضي الحسين بن الحسن بن محمد بن حليم البخاري الجرجاني الشافعي) also known as Al-Halimi (Arabic: الحليمي; 403-338 AH/ 949-1012 CE), was a highly influential Sunni scholar and regarded as the

Shihāb ad-Dīn Abū ’l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn Raslān al-Maqdisī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī al-Ṣūfī (Arabic: شهاب الدين أبو العباس أحمد بن حسين بن رسلان المقدسي الشافعي الصوفي), commonly known as Ibn Raslān (Arabic: ابن رسلان; 771-843 AH/ 1371-1440 CE) was a Palestinian Sunni scholar in the late medieval Islamic period.

Badr al-Dīn Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Jamaʿah (1241-1333) was a Shafi'i jurist of Mamluk Sultanate (now Egypt) and a member of the Banu Jumah clan.

Abū Ṭāhir al-Multānī was a 14th/15th century Hanafi jurist and the author of a widely used treatise on Hanafi jurisdiction in Persian, 'Umdat al-Islam.

Aḥmad ibn ʽAlī al-Rifāʽī (Arabic: أَحْمَد ابْن عَلِي ٱلرِّفَاعِي) was a Sunni Muslim preacher, ascetic, mystic, jurist, and theologian, known for being the eponymous founder of the Rifaʽi tariqa (Sufi order) of Islam.

Al-Sabuni, Ismail bin Abdal-Rahman bin Ahmad bin Ismail bin Ibrahim bin Amir, Abu Uthman al-Sabuni al-Shafi'i also known as Abu Uthman al-Sabuni (Arabic: أبو عثمان الصابوني), was a Sunni scholar known for being the leading hadith expert in Khorasan, a jurist of great authority particularly in the Shafi'i school, a Qur'anic exege

He was a prominent Maliki jurist, traditionist, grammarian, linguist, poet, litterateur, and a bibliographer.

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Khalaf ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Baṭṭāl al-Bakrī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن خلف بن عبد الملك بن بطال البكري القرطبي المالكي), better known as Ibn Baṭṭāl (Arabic: اابن بطال) was an Andalusian Islamic scholar primarily known for his expertise in Hadith and Islamic jurisprudence.

Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Murādī al-Ḥaḍramī (Arabic: أبو بكر محمد بن الحسن المرادي الحضرمي) or el Mûradi Al Hadrami or al-shaykh al imâm Al Hadrami was an 11th-century North African Islamic theologian and jurist.

Ḍiyā’ al-Dīn Abu ‘Abdallah Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahid al-Sa‘di al-Hanbali (Arabic: ضياء الدين المقدسي) (AH 569-643; AD 1173−1245) was a Hanbali Islamic scholar.

ibn Muḥammad al-Ṣādiq; c. 702-765) was a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the sixth and last agreed-upon Shia Imam amongst Tw

al-Shaʿthāʾ Jābir ibn Zayd al-Yaḥmadī al-ʾAzdī) was an Islamic scholar, theologian and one of the founding figures of the Ibadis, the t

الخلال) better known as Abū Bakr al-Khalāl, was a Medieval Muslim jurist. Al-Khallal was a student of five of Ahmad ibn Hanbal's direct stu

Al-Zayla'i (died 1342) was a 14th-century Islamic scholar, theologian and jurist from Zeila in modern-day Somaliland.

محمد بن احمد بن ابي سهل ابو بكر الأنصاري السرخسي), was a Sunni Muslim jurist and also an Islamic scholar of the Hanafi school of thought.

Ibn al-Mughallis (Arabic: ابن المغلس), was a medieval Arab Muslim theologian and jurist.

Abdullah `Ubaidullah ibn Muhammad ibn Battah al-Ukbari al-Hanbali, simply known as Ibn Battah al-`Ukbari was a Hanbali theologian and juri

(Arabic: أبو إسحاق الإسفراييني) was a renowned Sunni scholar, jurisconsult, legal theoretician, hadith expert, Qur'anic exegete

Amah al-Wahid (died 988) was a mid 10th-century female mufti and Islamic jurist during later Abbasid Era.

ibn Mohammed Abu Abdallah Ibn al-Hajj al-Abdari al-Maliki al-Fassi; Arabic: إبن الحاج العبدري الفاسي) also known simply as Ibn al-H

was a Maghrebi scholar in the field of history, Islamic law, Arabic philology and mathematics. He was born in Meknes from Banu U

الأحول الكوفي) commonly known as Yahya Ibn Adam was an Islamic scholar, Hafiz, Quran Reciter and a jurist of Persian origins born and r

al-Damiri (Arabic: كمال الدين محمد بن موسى الدميري), was a Shafi'i Sunni scholar, jurist, traditionist, theologian, and expert in Arabic fr

Abu Muhammad Ruwaym bin Ahmad was an early Muslim jurist, ascetic, saint and reciter of the Qur'an. He was one of the second generation of p

بْن أَنَس, romanized: Mālik ibn ʾAnas; c. 711-795) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Ma

ibn al-ʿAwwām al-ʾAsadī; c. 644-713) was an early Muslim traditionist, widely regarded as a founding figure in the field of histor

Imam al-Maziri and Imam al-Mazari, was an important Arab Muslim jurist in the Maliki school of Sunni Islamic Law. He was one of the most

Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Shihab al-Zuhri (Arabic: أَبُو بَكْرٍ مُحَمَّدُ بنُ مُسْلِمَ بنِ عُبَیْدِ ٱلل

إبراهيم بن المنذر بن الجارود النيسابوري) was a student of Shafi'i scholar al-Rabi' ibn Sulayman who was in turn a direct student of al-Sha

(Arabic: شقرون الوجديجي التلمساني) was a prominent Maliki jurist originally from Tlemcen. Born around c. 1503 and died c. 1574 in F

al-Barr (Arabic: ابن عبد البر) was an eleventh-century Maliki scholar and Athari theologian who served as the Qadi of Lisbon. He died i

AH/1310-1362 CE), was one of the leading authorities in Hanbali Law and one of the most prolific writers of the Ḥanbalī school of his pe

Ishaq ibn Rahwayh (romanizated: Ishāq ibn Rāhawayh) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, exegete, and theologian. A close friend

أبو محمد يحيى بن أكثم, died 857) was a ninth century Arab Islamic jurist. He twice served as the chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate, fro

بن خزیمه نیشاپوری) (838-924 AH) was a prominent Persian Muslim muhaddith scholar and Shafi'i jurist. He is best known for his hadith col

(Arabic: الماوردي, romanized: al-Māwardī), was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian,

Ghulām al-Khallāl (898-973) was an Islamic scholar and jurist of the Hanbali school. His real name was ‘Abd al-‘Azīz. Al-Khallal was a close

Abd Allah Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Abd al-Hadi al-Maqdisi al-Hanbali (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الهادي المقدسي) better known as Ibn Abd al-Hadi (Da

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Dāwūd al-Iṣbahānī, also known as Avendeath, was a medieval theologian and schol

Abū 'Abd-Allāh Ibn al-Azraq (Arabic: ابن الأزرق) was a Muslim jurist born in Málaga, Al Andalus in 1427. Educated in law in Málaga and Grana

al-Arabi (Arabic: أبو بكر بن العربى; c. 1076-1148) was a Muslim qadi and scholar of Maliki law from al-Andalus. Like Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abba

b. 1430 or 1431 in Ouarsenis, d. 1508 in Fez) was a Berber Muslim theologian and jurist of the Maliki school around the time of the fall of

an eighth-century tabi'i faqīh, exegete and transmitter of hadith. A student of early Meccan jurist Ata ibn Abi Rabah, Ibn Jurayj became a

in Aglu near Tiznit, in present-day Morocco) was a Maliki scholar and jurist who lived in the 11th century. He was a disciple of Ab

c. 750-806) was a prominent early jurist in the Maliki school from Egypt. He was one of Malik's main companions and had a tremen

Al-Shafi'i (Arabic: الشَّافِعِيّ, romanized: al-Shāfiʿī; IPA: [a(l) ʃaːfiʕiː] ;767-820 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, muhaddith, traditio

al-'Absi al-Qaysi (Arabic: عبدالله القيسي) was an early Muslim jurist and theologian.

ibn Shadhan (d. 260 AH/873 AD) was a prominent Twelver Shia Muslim theologian (mutakallim), traditionist and jurist in the 9th century,

known as Ibn al-Rif'ah was regarded as the leading Shafi'i jurist in Mamluk Egypt. He was praised by a number of people for his unp

or reverentially as Shaykh ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Jīlānī by Sunni Muslims, was a Persian Sunni Muslim Hanbali theologian, jurist, traditiona

Jalal al-Tilimsani (in Arabic: ابن جلال التلمساني) was a Muslim scholar born in Tlemcen around 1502-1503 and died in Fez around 1573-1574

بن محمد الحطاب الرعيني), more commonly referred to in Islamic scholarship as al-Hattab or Imam al-Hattab, was a 16th-century CE Muslim

al-Mubārak; c. 726-797) was an 8th-century traditionalist Sunni Muslim scholar and Hanafi jurist. Known by the title Amir al-Mu'minin fi a

أبو طالب المكي; died 386 AH/996 AD in Baghdad), was a hadith scholar, Shafi'i jurist, and Sufi mystic.

محمد ابن الإمام; d. 845 AH/ c. 1441) was a Tlemcen-born Maliki jurist and polymath from the prominent Awlad al-Imam (“Sons of the Imam”)

al-Hasan ibn Bashir al-Tirmidhi (d. c. 869) was a Persian Sunni jurist (faqih) and traditionist (muhaddith) of Khorasan, but is mostly rem

Al-Humaydi (died 834) was a Shafi'i . jurisprudence scholar and Shaykh of the al-Haram. He studied under Imam Shafi'i himself in his majlis.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Arabic: أحمد ابن حنبل, romanized: Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal; 780-855) was an Arab jurist and founder of the Hanbali school who is widely recognized as the scholar who memorized the most Hadiths in Islamic history.

Muhammad ibn Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Layla (Arabic: محمد بن عبد الرحمن بن أبي ليلى, romanized: Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā; 693-765), also known as Ibn Abi Layla, was an early Muslim jurist who served as the qadi (judge) of Kufa from c. 733 until his death.

Asad Ibn Al-Furat (Arabic: أسد بن الفرات; ca. 142/759, ca. 213/828) was a Muslim jurist and theologian in Ifriqiya, who played an important role in the Arab conquest of Sicily.

Abu Hanifa (Arabic: أَبُو حَنِيفَة, romanized: Abū Ḥanīfa; 5 September 699-18 June 767 CE) was a Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, and ascetic, and the founder and eponym of the Hanafi school of Sunni jurisprudence.

Al-Ghazali (Persian: ابو حامد محمد ابن محمد غزالی طوسی, romanized: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ghazālī Ṭūsi; c. 1058-19 December 1111), latinized as Algazelus, was a Shafi'i Sunni Muslim Persian scholar and polymath.

Abdul Qadir Gilani (c. 1077 or 1078, c. 1166) was a Hanbali scholar, preacher, and Sufi mystic leader who was the eponym of the Qadiriyya, one of the oldest Sufi orders.

Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi (Arabic: يحيى بن شرف النووي, romanized: Yaḥyā ibn Sharaf al-Nawawī) (October 1233-21 December 1277) was a jurist and hadith scholar, better known for authoring The Meadows of the Righteous and Sharh Sahih Muslim.

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (Arabic: تقي الدين أبي الطيب محمد بن أحمد الفاسي, 8 September 1373, in Mecca, Hejaz, 6 July 1429, in Mecca, Hejaz) was an Arab Muslim scholar, muhaddith (hadith scholar), faqih (jurist), historian, genealogist and a Maliki qadi (judge) in Mecca.

Sayf al-Din al-Amidi or Muhammad al-Amidi (b. 1156; Diyarbakır, d. 1233 in Damascus) was an influential Muslim jurist.