We are working to restore the Unionpedia app on the Google Play Store
OutgoingIncoming
🌟We've simplified our design for better navigation!
Instagram Facebook X LinkedIn
Your own Unionpedia with your logo and domain, from 9.99 USD/month
Create my Unionpedia

List of biographies of Muhammad

Index List of biographies of Muhammad

This is a chronological listing of biographies of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad, from the earliest traditional writers to modern times. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 136 relations: Aban ibn Uthman, Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi, Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan, Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, Abu Bakr, Abu Hurayra, Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Abul A'la Maududi, Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi, Adil Salahi, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ahmad Sirhindi, Ahmed Deedat, Al-Baghawi, Al-Baladhuri, Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Dimyati, Al-Khasa'is al-Kubra, Al-Mawardi, Al-Qastallani, Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa, Al-Suhayli, Al-Suyuti, Al-Tabari, Al-Tirmidhi, Al-Walid I, Al-Waqidi, Alfred Guillaume, Ali al-Sallabi, Aloys Sprenger, Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum, Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji, Ashraf Ali Thanwi, Asma bint Abi Bakr, Banu Thaqif, Companions of the Prophet, Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Erzurum, Fath al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nas, Genealogy, Gustav Weil, Hadith, Hammam ibn Munabbih, Hijri year, History of the Prophets and Kings, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr, Ibn Abbas, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ibn Dihya al-Kalby, ... Expand index (86 more) »

  2. Biographies of Muhammad

Aban ibn Uthman

Abu Sa'id Aban ibn Uthman ibn Affan al-Umawi (died 105 AH/723 CE) was a Muslim historian and traditionalist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Aban ibn Uthman

Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi

‘Abd al-Ghanī ibn ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Jammā’īlī al-Maqdisi (عبدالغني المقدسي) (1146-1203 CE) was a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent Hadith master.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ibn al-Hakam (translit; July/August 644 or June/July 647 – 9 October 705) was the fifth Umayyad caliph, ruling from April 685 until his death in October 705.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam (translit; May 624October/November 692) was the leader of a caliphate based in Mecca that rivaled the Umayyads from 683 until his death.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr

Abu Bakr

Abd Allah ibn Abi Quhafa (23 August 634), commonly known by the kunya Abu Bakr, was the first caliph, ruling from 632 until his death in 634.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abu Bakr

Abu Hurayra

Abū Hurayra ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr al-Dawsī al-Zahrānī (أبُو هُرَيْرَة عَبْد ٱلرَّحْمَٰن بْن صَخْر ٱلدَّوْسِيّ ٱلزَّهْرَانِيّ; –679), commonly known as Abū Hurayra (أبُو هُرَيْرَة), was a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the most prolific hadith narrator in Sunni Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abu Hurayra

Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani

Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani (full name:, أبو معشر نجيح بن عبد الرحمن السندي المدني), d. 787, was a Muslim historian and hadith scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abu Ma'shar Najih al-Sindi al-Madani

Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani

Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (أبـو نـعـيـمالأصـفـهـانـي.; full name: Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī (or al-Asfahānī) al-Ahwal al-Ash`arī al-Shāfi`ī, died 1038 CE / AH 430) was a medieval Persian Shafi'i scholar and one of the leading hadith scholars of his time.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani

Abul A'la Maududi

Abul A'la al-Maududi (ابو الاعلی المودودی|translit.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abul A'la Maududi

Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi (also known as Ali Miyan; 5 December 1913 – 31 December 1999) was a leading Islamic scholar, thinker, writer, preacher, reformer and a Muslim public intellectual of 20th century India and the author of numerous books on history, biography, contemporary Islam, and the Muslim community in India, one of the most prominent figure of Deoband School.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Abul Hasan Ali Hasani Nadwi

Adil Salahi

Adil Salahi is a scholar, author and translator, who has written or translated into English various books on Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Adil Salahi

Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (translit; November 780 – 2 August 855) was a Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, theologian, traditionist, ascetic and eponym of the Hanbali school of Islamic jurisprudence—one of the four major orthodox legal schools of Sunni Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ahmad ibn Hanbal

Ahmad Sirhindi

Ahmad Sirhindi (1564 – 1624/1625) was an Indian Islamic scholar, Hanafi jurist, and member of the Naqshbandī Sufi order who lived during the era of Mughal Empire.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ahmad Sirhindi

Ahmed Deedat

Ahmed Husein Deedat (અહમદ હુસેન દીદત; احمد حسین دیدات;; 1 July 1918 – 8 August 2005), was a South African and Indian self-taught Muslim thinker, author, and orator on Comparative Religion.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ahmed Deedat

Al-Baghawi

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥusayn ibn Masʻūd ibn Muḥammad al-Farrā' al-Baghawī (Persian/Arabic:ابو محمد حسین بن مسعود بغوی), born 1041 or 1044 (433 AH or 436 AH) died 1122 (516 AH) was a renowned Persian Muslim mufassir, hadith scholar, and Shafi‘i faqih, best known for his major work Maʻālim at-Tanzīl.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Baghawi

Al-Baladhuri

ʾAḥmad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Jābir al-Balādhurī (أحمد بن يحيى بن جابر البلاذري) was a 9th-century Muslim historian.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Baladhuri

Al-Bayhaqi

Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Mūsā al-Khusrawjirdī al-Bayhaqī (أبو بكر أحمد بن حسين بن علي بن موسى الخسروجردي البيهقي, 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.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Bayhaqi

Al-Dimyati

al-Dimyāṭī, ʿAbd al-Muʾmin b. K̲h̲alaf S̲h̲araf al-Dīn al-Tūnī al-Dimyāṭī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī (الدمياطي), commonly known as Al-Dimyāṭī was regarded as the leading traditionist in Egypt in the 13th century.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Dimyati

Al-Khasa'is al-Kubra

Kifayat al-Talib al-Labib fi Khasa'is al-Habib (كفاية الطالب اللبيب في خصائص الحبيب) shortly known as al-Khasa'is al-Kubra (الخصائص الكبرى) is an Islamic book written by Egyptian Muslim scholar Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (1445–1505 CE). List of biographies of Muhammad and al-Khasa'is al-Kubra are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Khasa'is al-Kubra

Al-Mawardi

Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Habib (–1058), commonly known by the nisba al-Mawardi, was a Sunni polymath and a Shafi'i jurist, legal theoretician, muhaddith, theologian, sociologist and an expert in political science. He is considered to be an eminent scholar of his time who wrote on numerous subjects, including Qur'anic interpretations, religion, government, public and constitutional law, language, ethics and belles-letters.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Mawardi

Al-Qastallani

Shihāb al-Dīn Abu'l-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr al-Qasṭallānī al-Qutaybī al-Shāfi‘ī (أحمد بن محمد ابن أبي بكر ابن عبد الملك بن أحمد بن حسين بن علي القسطلاني المصري الشافعي), also known as Al-Qasṭallānī was a Sunni Islamic scholar who specialized in hadith and theology.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Qastallani

Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa

Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa, (الشفا بتعريف حقوق المصطفى, The Remedy by the Recognition of the Rights of the Chosen One), of Qadi Ayyad (d. 544H / 1149CE) is perhaps the most frequently used and commented upon handbook in which Muhammad's life, his qualities and his miracles are described in every detail. List of biographies of Muhammad and al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Shifa bi Ta'rif Huquq al-Mustafa

Al-Suhayli

Abu al-Qasim (and Abu Zayd) Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Suhayli (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Suhayli

Al-Suyuti

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī; 1445–1505), or al-Suyuti, was an Egyptian Sunni Muslim polymath of Persian descent. Considered the mujtahid and mujaddid of the Islamic 10th century, he was a leading muhaddith (hadith master), mufassir (Qu'ran exegete), faqīh (jurist), usuli (legal theorist), sufi (mystic), theologian, grammarian, linguist, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian, who authored works in virtually every Islamic science.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Suyuti

Al-Tabari

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

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Tabari

Al-Tirmidhi

Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi (translit; 824 – 9 October 892 CE / 209 - 279 AH), often referred to as Imām at-Termezī/Tirmidhī, was an Islamic scholar, and collector of hadith from Termez (early Khorasan and in present-day Uzbekistan).

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Tirmidhi

Al-Walid I

Al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan (al-Walīd ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Marwān; – 23 February 715), commonly known as al-Walid I (الوليد الأول), was the sixth Umayyad caliph, ruling from October 705 until his death in 715.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Walid I

Al-Waqidi

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn Waqid al-Aslami (Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ibn Wāqid al-Aslamī) (– 207 AH; commonly referred as commonly referred to as al-Waqidi (Arabic: الواقدي; c. 747 – 823 AD) was an early Muslim historian and biographer of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specializing in his military campaigns.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Al-Waqidi

Alfred Guillaume

Alfred Guillaume (8 November 1888 – 30 November 1965) was a British Christian Arabist, scholar of the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Alfred Guillaume

Ali al-Sallabi

Ali Muhammad al-Sallabi, or al-Salabi (علي محمد الصلابي; born 1963 in Benghazi) is a Muslim historian, religious scholar and Islamist The Telegraph, 10 November 2011.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ali al-Sallabi

Aloys Sprenger

Aloys Sprenger (born 3 September 1813, in Nassereith, Tyrol; died 19 December 1893 in Heidelberg) was an Austrian Orientalist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Aloys Sprenger

Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum

Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum (italic), is a seerah book (biography of Muhammad) by Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri. List of biographies of Muhammad and ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum

Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji

Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji (أسعد محمد سعيد الصاغرجي) was a Syrian Islamic scholar specializing in the field of Hanafi Fiqh, who lived in Damascus, Syria.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Asad Muhammad Saeed as-Sagharji

Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Ashraf Ali Thanwi (often referred as Hakimul Ummat and Mujaddidul Millat (19 August 1863 – 20 July 1943) was a late-nineteenth and twentieth-century Sunni Muslim scholar, jurist, thinker, reformist and the revival of classical Sufi thought from Indian subcontinent during the British Raj, one of the chief proponents of Pakistan Movement.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ashraf Ali Thanwi

Asma bint Abi Bakr

Asmāʾ bint Abī Bakr (أسماء بنت أبي بكر; 595/594 – 694-695CE) nicknamed Dhat an-Nitaqayn (meaning she with the two belts) was one of the companions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and half-sister of his third wife Aisha.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Asma bint Abi Bakr

Banu Thaqif

The Banu Thaqif (Banū Thaqīf) is an Arab tribe which inhabited, and still inhabits, the city of Ta'if and its environs, in modern Saudi Arabia, and played a prominent role in early Islamic history.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Banu Thaqif

Companions of the Prophet

The Companions of the Prophet (lit) were the disciples and followers of Muhammad who saw or met him during his lifetime, while being a Muslim and were physically in his presence.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Companions of the Prophet

Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān

The Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān (abbreviated EQ) is an encyclopedia dedicated to Quranic Studies edited by Islamic scholar Jane Dammen McAuliffe, and published by Brill Publishers.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān

Erzurum

Erzurum is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Erzurum

Fath al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nas

Muhammad bin Muhammad al-Ya'mari, better known as Fatḥ al-Dīn Ibn Sayyid al-Nās, was a Medieval Egyptian theologian who specialized in the field of Hadith, or the recorded prophecies and traditions of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Fath al-Din Ibn Sayyid al-Nas

Genealogy

Genealogy is the study of families, family history, and the tracing of their lineages.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Genealogy

Gustav Weil

Gustav Weil (25 April 1808 – 29 August 1889) was a German orientalist and one of the earliest academic practitioners of Quranic studies.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Gustav Weil

Hadith

Hadith (translit) or Athar (أثر) is a form of Islamic oral tradition containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the prophet Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Hadith

Hammam ibn Munabbih

Hammam ibn Munabbih (همامابن منبه) was an Islamic scholar, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Hammam ibn Munabbih

Hijri year

The Hijri year (سَنة هِجْريّة) or era (التقويمالهجري at-taqwīm al-hijrī) is the era used in the Islamic lunar calendar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Hijri year

History of the Prophets and Kings

The History of the Prophets and Kings (تاريخ الرسل والملوك Tārīkh al-Rusul wa al-Mulūk), more commonly known as Tarikh al-Tabari (تاريخ الطبري) or Tarikh-i Tabari or The History of al-Tabari (تاریخ طبری) is an Arabic-language historical chronicle completed by the Muslim historian Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (225–310 AH, 838–923 AD) in 915 AD.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and History of the Prophets and Kings

Ibn 'Abd al-Barr

Yūsuf ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Barr, Abū ʿUmar al-Namarī al-Andalusī al-Qurṭubī al-Mālikī, commonly known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (ابن عبد البر) was an eleventh-century Maliki scholar and Athari theologian who served as the Qadi of Lisbon.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn 'Abd al-Barr

Ibn Abbas

ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās (عَبْد ٱللَّٰه ٱبْن عَبَّاس; c. 619 – 687 CE), also known as Ibn ʿAbbās, was one of the cousins of the prophet Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Abbas

Ibn al-Jawzi

Abū al-Farash ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn al-Jawzī, often referred to as Ibn al-Jawzī (ابن الجوزي; c. 1116 – 16 June 1201) for short, was a Muslim jurisconsult, preacher, orator, heresiographer, traditionist, historian, judge, hagiographer, and philologist who played an instrumental role in propagating the Hanbali school of orthodox Sunni jurisprudence in his native Baghdad during the twelfth-century.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn al-Jawzi

Ibn Dihya al-Kalby

Umar bin al-Hasan bin Ali bin Muhammad bin al-Jamil bin Farah bin Khalaf bin Qumis bin Mazlal bin Malal bin Badr bin Dihyah bin Farwah, better known as Ibn Dihya al-Kalbi (ابن دحية الكلبي) was a Moorish scholar of both the Arabic language and Islamic studies.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Dihya al-Kalby

Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (ابن حجر العسقلاني; 18 February 1372 – 2 February 1449), or simply ibn Ḥajar, was a classic Islamic scholar "whose life work constitutes the final summation of the science of hadith." He authored some 150 works on hadith, history, biography, exegesis, poetry, and the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence, the most valued of which being his commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, titled Fath al-Bari.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami

Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn Ḥajar al-Haytamī al-Makkī al-Anṣārī known as Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Makki (ابن حجر الهيتمي المكي) was a renowned Sunni Egyptian scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Hajar al-Haytami

Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hazm (November 994 – 15 August 1064) was an Andalusian Muslim polymath, historian, traditionist, jurist, philosopher, and theologian, born in the Córdoban Caliphate, present-day Spain.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Hazm

Ibn Hibban

Muḥammad ibn Hibbān al-Bustī (c. 270–354/884–965) was a Muslim polymath and a prominent Shafi'i traditionist, ḥadith critic, evaluator of rijal, compiler and interpreter of hadith.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Hibban

Ibn Hisham

Abu Muhammad Abd al-Malik ibn Hisham ibn Ayyub al-Himyari (translit; died 7 May 833), known simply as Ibn Hisham, was a 9th-century Muslim historian and scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Hisham

Ibn Ishaq

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (translit; –767), known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Ishaq

Ibn Jurayj

Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Jurayj (translit, 80 AH/699 CE - 150 AH/767 CE) was an eighth-century faqīh, exegete and hadith transmitter from the Taba' at-Tabi'in.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Jurayj

Ibn Kathir

Abu al-Fida Isma'il ibn Umar ibn Kathir al-Dimashqi (translit), known simply as Ibn Kathir, was an Arab Islamic exegete, historian and scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Kathir

Ibn Sa'd

Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Sa‘d ibn Manī‘ al-Baṣrī al-Hāshimī or simply Ibn Sa'd (ابن سعد) and nicknamed Scribe of Waqidi (Katib al-Waqidi), was a scholar and Arabian biographer.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Sa'd

Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri

Muhammad ibn Muslim ibn Ubaydullah ibn Abdullah ibn Shihab az-Zuhri (translit; died 124 AH/741-2 CE), also referred to as Ibn Shihab or az-Zuhri, was a ''tabi'i'' Arab jurist and traditionist credited with pioneering the development of sīra-maghazi and hadith literature.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri

Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Islam

Ismail al-Faruqi

Ismaʻīl Rājī al-Fārūqī (إسماعيل راجي الفاروقي;; January 1, 1921 – May 27, 1986) was a Palestinian-American philosopher known for his contributions to Islamic studies and interfaith dialogue.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ismail al-Faruqi

Isnad

In the Islamic study of hadith, an isnād (chain of transmitters) refers to a list of people who passed on a tradition, from the original authority to whom the tradition is attributed to, to the present person reciting or compiling that tradition.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Isnad

Jamal Badawi

Jamal A. Badawi (جمال بدوي) is an Egyptian-Canadian author, preacher and speaker on Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Jamal Badawi

Jami

Nūr ad-Dīn 'Abd ar-Rahmān Jāmī (نورالدین عبدالرحمن جامی; 7 November 1414 – 9 November 1492), also known as Mawlanā Nūr al-Dīn 'Abd al-Rahmān or Abd-Al-Rahmān Nur-Al-Din Muhammad Dashti, or simply as Jami or Djāmī and in Turkey as Molla Cami, was a Sunni poet who is known for his achievements as a prolific scholar and writer of mystical Sufi literature.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Jami

Joel Hayward

Joel Hayward (born 1964) is a New Zealand-born British scholar, academic and writer.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Joel Hayward

Karam Shah al-Azhari

Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari (1 July 1918 – 7 April 1998) was an Islamic scholar of Hanafi jurisprudence, Sufi, and Muslim leader.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Karam Shah al-Azhari

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Karen Armstrong

Khalid Masud

Allama Khalid Masud (16 December 1935 – 1 October 2003), was a Muslim scholar of Pakistan.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Khalid Masud

Kutub al-Sittah

(), also known as (lit) are the six canonical hadith collections of Sunni Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Kutub al-Sittah

Latin biographies of Muhammad

A number of biographies of Muhammad were written in Latin during the 9th to 13th centuries. List of biographies of Muhammad and Latin biographies of Muhammad are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Latin biographies of Muhammad

Lesley Hazleton

Lesley Adele Hazleton (September 20, 1945 – April 29, 2024) was a British-American author and journalist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Lesley Hazleton

List of hadith books

The following is a list of hadith collections compiled by traditionists, which are sources that contain the words, actions and silent approvals ascribed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. List of biographies of Muhammad and list of hadith books are islam-related lists.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and List of hadith books

List of Islamic texts

This is a list of Islamic texts. List of biographies of Muhammad and list of Islamic texts are islam-related lists.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and List of Islamic texts

List of Muslim historians

The following is a list of Muslim historians writing in the Islamic historiographical tradition, which developed from hadith literature in the time of the first caliphs. List of biographies of Muhammad and list of Muslim historians are islam-related lists.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and List of Muslim historians

Mahomet and His Successors

Mahomet and His Successors is a book written by American author Washington Irving, and published in 1850 and a follow-up to his previous book Life of Mahomet. List of biographies of Muhammad and Mahomet and His Successors are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Mahomet and His Successors

Malik ibn Anas

Malik ibn Anas (translit; –795) was an Islamic scholar and traditionalist who is the eponym of the Maliki school, one of the four schools of Islamic jurisprudence in Sunni Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Malik ibn Anas

Martin Lings

Martin Lings (24 January 1909 – 12 May 2005), also known as Abū Bakr Sirāj ad-Dīn, was an English writer, Islamic scholar, and philosopher.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Martin Lings

Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes

Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes (15 December 1862 – 12 August 1957) was a French Arabist, a specialist in Islam and the history of religions.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes

Maxime Rodinson

Maxime Rodinson (French pronunciation:; 26 January 191523 May 2004) was a French historian and sociologist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Maxime Rodinson

Málaga

Málaga is a municipality of Spain, capital of the Province of Málaga, in the autonomous community of Andalusia.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Málaga

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad

Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad (12 January 1889 – 8 November 1965) was the second caliph (خليفة المسيح الثاني, khalīfatul masīh al-thāni), leader of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and the eldest son of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad from his second wife, Nusrat Jahan Begum.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad

Mohammed Hussein Heikal

Mohammed Hussein Heikal (محمد حسين هيكل; August 20, 1888 – December 8, 1956) was an Egyptian writer, journalist, politician.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Mohammed Hussein Heikal

Mu'awiya I

Mu'awiya I (Muʿāwiya ibn Abī Sufyān; –April 680) was the founder and first caliph of the Umayyad Caliphate, ruling from 661 until his death.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Mu'awiya I

Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad

Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki

Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan bin ‘Alawi bin ‘Abbas bin ‘Abd al-‘Aziz (1944–2004), also known as Muhammad ibn Alawi al-Maliki, was one of the foremost traditional Sunni Islamic scholar of contemporary times from Saudi Arabia.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki

Muhammad al-Zurqani

Muhammad al-Zurqani (1645–1710 CE) (محمد الزرقاني) was a Sunni Maliki Islamic scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad al-Zurqani

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib

Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib (মুহম্মদ আসাদুল্লাহ আল-গালিব; born 15 January 1948) is a Bangladeshi reformist Islamic scholar and former professor of Arabic at the University of Rajshahi.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib

Muhammad at Mecca

Muhammad at Mecca is a book about the Islamic prophet Muhammad, specifically about the first phase of his public mission, which concern his years in Mecca until the hijra to Medina. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad at Mecca are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad at Mecca

Muhammad at Medina

Muhammad at Medina is a book about early Islam written by the non-Muslim Islamic scholar W. Montgomery Watt. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad at Medina are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad at Medina

Muhammad Hamidullah

Muhammad Hamidullah (translit; 19 February 1908 – 17 December 2002) was a Deccani polymath,He was a student of Jamia Nizamia Hyderabad he received several special degrees Moulvi,Aalim, Faazil before the partition of India His master advised to travell another countries and he travelled many countries he learned many languages,academic and an Islamic scholar of hadiths (muhaddith) and law (faqih).

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Hamidullah

Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti

Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti(محمد ابراہیممیر سیالکوٹی; 1874 AD12 January 1956 AD, 1291 AH - 25 Jumada al-awwal 1375 AH)Role of Ahl-i Hadith scholar in Tehreek-e-Pakistan page 379 also known as Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti was Ahl-i Hadith scholar, Islamic scholar, muhaddith, khatib, historian, journalist, writer, religious activist and activist of Tehreek-e-Pakistan.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti

Muhammad Shafi Deobandi

Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn ‘Us̱mānī Deobandī (محمد شفیع بن محمد ياسین عثمانی دیوبندی; محمد شفيع بن محمد ياسين العثماني الديوبندي, Muḥammad Shafī‘ ibn Muḥammad Yāsīn al-‘Uthmānī ad-Diyūbandī; 25 January 18976 October 1976), often referred to as Mufti Muhammad Shafi, was a Pakistani Sunni Islamic scholar of the Deobandi school of Islamic thought.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Shafi Deobandi

Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansoorpuri

Qazi Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansurpuri also referred to as Qazi Muhammad Sulaiman Salman or Qazi Muhammad Suleman Mansoorpuri (قاضی محمد سلیمان سلمان منصورپوری; Born: 1867 AD, Mansurpur, Patiala State30 May 1930, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia AD, 1284 AH - 02 Muharram 1349 AH) was an Islamic scholar, biographer and historian.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansoorpuri

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri (محمد طاہر القادری‎; born 19 February 1951) is a Pakistani–Canadian Islamic scholar and former politician who founded Minhaj-ul-Quran International and Pakistan Awami Tehreek.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait

Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait is a biography of Muhammad by Mohamad Jebara, which was released on November 16, 2021. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet is a biography of Muhammad by the British religion writer and lecturer Karen Armstrong, published by Gollancz in 1991. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet

Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Muhammad: A Prophet For Our Time is a 2006 non-fiction book by the British writer Karen Armstrong. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources is a 1983 biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by Martin Lings. List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources

Musa ibn ʿUqba

Musa ibn 'Uqba al-Asadī (موسى بن عقبة; 665–758), known with his honorific as Mūsā ibn ʿUqba, was an early Arab historian and traditionalist, and pupil of Imam Zuhri and was a slave of the family of Zubair.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Musa ibn ʿUqba

Muwatta Imam Malik

The Muwaṭṭaʾ (الموطأ, "well-trodden path") or Muwatta Imam Malik (موطأ الإماممالك) of Imam Malik (711–795) written in the 8th-century, is one of the earliest collections of hadith texts comprising the subjects of Islamic law, compiled by the Imam, Malik ibn Anas.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Muwatta Imam Malik

Naeem Siddiqui

Maulana Naeem Siddiqui (1916 – 25 September 2002) was a Pakistani Islamic scholar, writer and politician.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Naeem Siddiqui

Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib

Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib (نشر الطيب فى ذكر النبى الحبيب ﷺ) is a biography of Muhammad written by Ashraf Ali Thanwi during 1911–1912, amidst a pandemic outbreak in India. List of biographies of Muhammad and Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib

Nur al-Din al-Samhudi

Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي) was a 15th-century Shafi'i Islamic scholar of the Mamluk Era.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Nur al-Din al-Samhudi

Prophets and messengers in Islam

Prophets in Islam (translit) are individuals in Islam who are believed to spread God's message on Earth and serve as models of ideal human behaviour.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Prophets and messengers in Islam

Qadi Iyad

ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā (1083–1149) (القاضي عياض بن موسى, formally Abū al-Faḍl ʿIyāḍ ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn ʿAmr ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Mūsā ibn ʿIyāḍ al-Yaḥṣubī al-Sabtī (أبو الفضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض بن عمرو بن موسى بن عياض بن محمد بن عبد الله بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبي السبتيCamilo Gómez-Rivas, Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists, p 324.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Qadi Iyad

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri (Pdf); See at Author's Autobiography page in Lincage part; his full name mentioned.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih

(صحيفة همامبن منبه),, is a hadith collection compiled by the Yemeni Islamic scholar Hammam ibn Munabbih. It is sometimes quoted as one of the earliest surviving works of its kind.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih

Sīrah

Al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya, commonly shortened to Sīrah and translated as prophetic biography, are the traditional Muslim biographies of the Islamic prophet Muhammad from which, in addition to the Quran and Hadiths, most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived. List of biographies of Muhammad and Sīrah are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sīrah

Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya

Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya (سیرت خاتمالانبیاء ﷺ) is a prophetic biography authored by Shafi Usmani in Urdu, initially published in 1925. List of biographies of Muhammad and Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Seyyed Hossein Nasr (سید حسین نصر, born April 7, 1933) is an Iranian-American philosopher, theologian and Islamic scholar.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Shamsuddin Azeemi

Khawaja Shamsuddin Azeemi (خواجه شمس الدين عظيمي; born 17 October 1927) is a Pakistani Islamic scholar and a master in the field of Tassawuf, with Ijazah and authorization from his Murshid Muhammad Azeem Barkhiya, the founder and the Shaykh of Silsila Azeemia.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Shamsuddin Azeemi

Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah

Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah is an eight volumes collection authored by Islamic scholar Muhammad al-Zurqani, a commentary of Al-Qastallani's Al-Muwahib al-Ladunniyyah.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah

Shibli Nomani

Shibli Nomani (4 June 1857 – 18 November 1914) was an Islamic scholar, poet, philosopher, historian, educational thinker, author, orator, reformer and critic of orientalists from Indian subcontinent during the British Raj.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Shibli Nomani

Sirat al-Halbiya

Sirat al-Halbiya is a biography of Muhammad by Ali Ibn Burhan-ud-din Halabi (also written as Nur ad-Din al-Halabi or Nuraddin Halabi), an islamic scholar and historian in the 11th century AH.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sirat al-Halbiya

Sirat al-Nabi

Siratun Nabi (سیرت النبی) is a 7-volume seerah book, or biography of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, which was written by Shibli Nomani and Sulaiman Nadvi. List of biographies of Muhammad and Sirat al-Nabi are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sirat al-Nabi

Siyer-i Nebi

Siyer-i Nebi (سیر نبی) is an Ottoman epic on the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, completed around 1388, written by Mustafa (son of Yusuf of Erzurum, known as al-Darir), a Mevlevi dervish on the commission of Sultan Barquq, the Mamluk ruler in Cairo. List of biographies of Muhammad and Siyer-i Nebi are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Siyer-i Nebi

St. Martin's Press

St.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and St. Martin's Press

Sulaiman Nadvi

Syed Sulaiman Nadvi (22 November 1884 – 22 November 1953) was a British Indian, and then Pakistani, Islamic scholar, historian and a writer, who co-authored Sirat-un-Nabi and wrote Khutbat-e-Madras.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Sulaiman Nadvi

Syed Shahabuddin Salfi Firdausi

Maulana Syed Shahabuddin Salfi Firdausi (1956 – 2018) was an Indian Islamic scholar, author and peace activist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Syed Shahabuddin Salfi Firdausi

Tabi'un

The tābiʿūn (اَلتَّابِعُونَ, also accusative or genitive tābiʿīn اَلتَّابِعِينَ, singular tābiʿ تَابِعٌ), "followers" or "successors", are the generation of Muslims who followed the companions (ṣaḥāba) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and thus received their teachings secondhand.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Tabi'un

The Leadership of Muhammad

The Leadership of Muhammad: A Historical Reconstruction is a 2021 biographical book about the leadership of the Islamic prophet Muhammad by British-New Zealand Islamic scholar Joel Hayward. List of biographies of Muhammad and the Leadership of Muhammad are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and The Leadership of Muhammad

The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War

The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War is a 2022 biographical book by British-New Zealand Islamic scholar Joel Hayward about the Islamic prophet Muhammad’s understanding of warfare and strategy. List of biographies of Muhammad and the Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War are biographies of Muhammad.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War

Theodor Nöldeke

Theodor Nöldeke (born 2 March 1836 – 25 December 1930) was a German orientalist and scholar, originally a student of Heinrich Ewald.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Theodor Nöldeke

Umayyad Caliphate

The Umayyad Caliphate or Umayyad Empire (al-Khilāfa al-Umawiyya) was the second caliphate established after the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and was ruled by the Umayyad dynasty.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Umayyad Caliphate

Urdu

Urdu (اُردُو) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in South Asia.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Urdu

Urwa ibn al-Zubayr

Urwa ibn al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam al-Asadi (translit) was an early Muslim traditionist, widely regarded as a founding figure in the field of historical study among the Muslims.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Urwa ibn al-Zubayr

Uthman

Uthman ibn Affan (translit; 17 June 656) was the third caliph, ruling from 644 until his assassination in 656.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Uthman

W. Montgomery Watt

William Montgomery Watt (14 March 1909 – 24 October 2006) was a Scottish historian and orientalist.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and W. Montgomery Watt

Wahb ibn Munabbih

Wahb ibn Munabbih (وهب بن منبه) was a Yemenite Muslim traditionist of Dhimar (two days' journey from Sana'a) in Yemen.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Wahb ibn Munabbih

Wahiduddin Khan

Wahiduddin Khan (1 January 1925 – 21 April 2021), known with the honorific "Maulana", was an Indian Islamic scholar and peace activist and author known for having written a commentary on the Quran and having translated it into contemporary English.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Wahiduddin Khan

Washington Irving

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Washington Irving

William Muir

Sir William Muir (27 April 1819 – 11 July 1905) was a Scottish Orientalist, and colonial administrator, Principal of the University of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Governor of the North-West Provinces of British India.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and William Muir

Ya'qubi

ʾAbū al-ʿAbbās ʾAḥmad bin ʾAbī Yaʿqūb bin Ǧaʿfar bin Wahb bin Waḍīḥ al-Yaʿqūbī (died 897/8), commonly referred to simply by his nisba al-Yaʿqūbī, was an Arab Muslim geographer.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Ya'qubi

Yusuf al-Nabhani

Yusuf bin Ismail bin Yusuf bin Ismail bin Muhammad Nâsir al-Dîn an-Nabhani (1849–1932) born in Ijzim in Palestine, was a Palestinian Sunni Islamic scholar, judge, prolific poet, and defender of the Ottoman Caliphate.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Yusuf al-Nabhani

Zubayr ibn al-Awwam

Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ibn Khuwaylid al-Asadi was an Arab Muslim commander in the service of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and the caliphs Abu Bakr and Umar who played a leading role in the Ridda wars against rebel tribes in Arabia in 632–633 and later participated in early Muslim conquests of Sasanid Persia in 633–634, Byzantine Syria in 634–638, and the Exarchate of Africa in 639–643.

See List of biographies of Muhammad and Zubayr ibn al-Awwam

See also

Biographies of Muhammad

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biographies_of_Muhammad

Also known as Biographies of Muhammad, Biography of Muhammad, Life of Muhammad, List of Muhammad Biographies.

, Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, Ibn Hajar al-Haytami, Ibn Hazm, Ibn Hibban, Ibn Hisham, Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Jurayj, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Sa'd, Ibn Shihab az-Zuhri, Islam, Ismail al-Faruqi, Isnad, Jamal Badawi, Jami, Joel Hayward, Karam Shah al-Azhari, Karen Armstrong, Khalid Masud, Kutub al-Sittah, Latin biographies of Muhammad, Lesley Hazleton, List of hadith books, List of Islamic texts, List of Muslim historians, Mahomet and His Successors, Malik ibn Anas, Martin Lings, Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, Maxime Rodinson, Málaga, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Mu'awiya I, Muhammad, Muhammad 'Alawi al-Maliki, Muhammad al-Zurqani, Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib, Muhammad at Mecca, Muhammad at Medina, Muhammad Hamidullah, Muhammad Ibrahim Mir Sialkoti, Muhammad Shafi Deobandi, Muhammad Sulaiman Salman Mansoorpuri, Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Muhammad the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait, Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet, Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time, Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources, Musa ibn ʿUqba, Muwatta Imam Malik, Naeem Siddiqui, Nashr al-Tib fi Zikr al-Nabi al-Habib, Nur al-Din al-Samhudi, Prophets and messengers in Islam, Qadi Iyad, Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri, Sahifat Hammam ibn Munabbih, Sīrah, Seerat Khatam al-Anbiya, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Shamsuddin Azeemi, Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah, Shibli Nomani, Sirat al-Halbiya, Sirat al-Nabi, Siyer-i Nebi, St. Martin's Press, Sulaiman Nadvi, Syed Shahabuddin Salfi Firdausi, Tabi'un, The Leadership of Muhammad, The Warrior Prophet: Muhammad and War, Theodor Nöldeke, Umayyad Caliphate, Urdu, Urwa ibn al-Zubayr, Uthman, W. Montgomery Watt, Wahb ibn Munabbih, Wahiduddin Khan, Washington Irving, William Muir, Ya'qubi, Yusuf al-Nabhani, Zubayr ibn al-Awwam.