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The first person of Ba 'Alawi sada to acquire the surname al-Haddad (The Ironsmith) was Imam al-Haddad's ancestor, Sayyid Ahmad bin Abu Bakr. The Sayyid, who lived in the ninth century of the Hijra , took to sitting at the ironsmith’s shop in Tarim much of the time, hence he was called Ahmad al-Haddad (Ahmad the Ironsmith).
Ash'aris are those who adhere to Imam Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari in his school of theology. Ashʿarism or Ashʿarī theology [1] (/ æ ʃ ə ˈ r iː /; [2] Arabic: الأشعرية: al-ʾAshʿarīyah) [3] is one of the main Sunnī schools of Islamic theology, founded by the Arab Muslim scholar, Shāfiʿī jurist, and scholastic theologian Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī in the 9th–10th century.
His father, Qazi Imam al-Din Abu al-Qasim 'Umar bin al-Sa'id Fakhr ad-Din Abdullah al-Baydawi was a disciple of Sufi Saint, Abu Talib 'Abd al-Mohsin bin Abi al-'Umaid al-Shafi', al-Khafifi al-Abhari (d. 624/1227) who was well versed in religious laws and was illustrious Muslim scholar in the last 6th and early 7th century A.H. [13] [14]
Although Imam Ismail predeceased his father, he (i.e., Isma'il ibn Jafar) had in his own right designated his son Muhammad ibn Ismail as the next hereditary Imam who was to follow after him. In direct opposition to this belief, the Twelvers believe that Imam Ismail's younger brother Musa al Kadhim was from the beginning the rightful successor ...
Aḥmad al-Wāḥidī al-Naysābūrī, who was better known as Al-Wāḥidī (Arabic: الواحدي), was a prominent grammarian and philologist of the Classical Arabic and a Quran scholar who wrote several classical exegetical works. [2] [3] He is considered one of the leading Quranic exegete and literary critics of the medieval Islamic world.
Al-Asma' wa al-Sifat (Arabic: الأسماء والصفات, romanized: Divine names and attributes), is a major classic of Islamic theology authored by Al-Bayhaqi. It was said such a book had never existed like this before and for this reason the author was considered a pioneer in this field.
Al-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, Translated by Ezzeddin Ibrahim, Islamic Texts Society; New edition (1997) ISBN 0-946621-65-9; The Forty Hadith of al-Imam al-Nawawi, Abul-Qasim Publishing House (1999) ISBN 9960-792-76-5; The Complete Forty Hadith, Ta-Ha Publishers (2000) ISBN 1-84200-013-6; The Arba'een 40 Ahadith of Imam Nawawi with Commentary, Darul ...
Az-Zarkashī studied hadīth (one of various reports describing the words, actions, or habits of the prophet Muhammad) in Damascus with Imād al-Dīn Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), fiqh and usūl in Aleppo with Shihāb ud-Dīn Al-Adhra`I (d. 1381), and Quran and fiqh in Cairo with the head of the Shafi’i school in Cairo at the time, Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi.