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Current Ummah of Islam (Ummah of Muhammad) Aṣ-ḥāb Muḥammad (Arabic: أَصْحَاب مُحَمَّد, Companions of Muhammad) Anṣār (Muslims of Medina who helped Muhammad and his Meccan followers, literally 'Helpers') Muhājirūn (Emigrants from Mecca to Medina) Ḥizbullāh (Arabic: حِزْبُ ٱلله, Party of God) People of Mecca
There are many Biblical figures which the Qur'an names. Some, however, go unnamed in the Qur'an, but are referenced or referred to in the hadiths, tafsirs, literature or seerah. Other figures are mentioned elsewhere in tradition and in the sunnah and sayings of Muhammad. Such figures which are not mentioned by name in the Qur'an, are included ...
Islamic tradition holds both Joachim and Amram are named the same, though the Quran only refers to Joachim with the name of Amram and calls Mary the sister of Aaron, [10] Muslims see this as connecting the two women from two prophetic households in spirit.
Oftentimes the names of these women are confused, however, the general scholarly consensus is that Noah's wife was Amzura while Lot's wife was Wā'ila. [2] This continual reversal of the two names underscores exactly how both women have ultimately served the same purpose in Islamic scriptural interpretation.
Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa (Arabic: الوفاء بأسماء النساء, romanized: al-wafāʿ bi-ʿasmāʿ an-nisāʿ, lit. 'Loyalty with the Names of Women') is a 43-volume Arabic biographical compendium that documents the lives of women who participated in the narration of hadiths or played crucial roles in their dissemination.
A Pakistani court sentenced a Muslim woman to life in prison after finding her guilty of burning pages of Islam's holy book, a prosecutor said Friday. ... A Christian woman with the same name was ...
The Bible then continues "And the firstborn bare a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites unto this day. And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben-ammi: the same is the father of the children of Ammon unto this day". [48] The biblical story of Lot ends here.
Yusuf and Zulaikha (the English transliteration of both names varies greatly) is a title given to many tellings in the Muslim world of the story of the relationship between the prophet Yusuf and Potiphar's wife. Developed primarily from the account in Sura 12 of the Qur'an, a distinct story of Yusuf and Zulaikha seems to have developed in ...