ضرلر بن الأزور الأسدي
A great hero before and after Ilsam. He was present when the Muslims opened Damascus and died there. Buried by the side of the road ouside Bab Sharqi (disputed)[Ziarat al-Sham p. 85-86 - note inconsistency in dating]

شرحبيل بن حسنة  -
One of the early Muslims, who wrote down Revelation from the Prophet (s). Ruled Damascus before sayyidina Mu`awiya. Buried near Bab Tuma. [Ziarat al-Sham p. 85]

[ZaSh] he was teaching pple about haram and halal (i.e. he was of the fuqaha'amongst hte sahaba); one of those told "عليكم بالشام"

Maula of sayyiduna Abu Bakr, mu'adhin of the Prophet (s); came to Sham as a mujahid and stayed there until he died year 17 H. Buried in Bab al-Saghir (correct according to al-Nawawi's Tahdhib, who mentiones other things said); narrated 44 hadith from the Prophet (s).

حفاف بن ندبة (اسم أمه) وأبوه عمير بن الحارث السامي (ت ‮٠٢‬هـ) وكان ابن عم الجنساء الشاعرة

[ahm-fb]: “Sword of Allah” opposed Muslims at Uhud, then converted, led the conquests under Abu Bakr,

[ahm-fb]: yemeni rabbi, converted to Islam, reported many Israelite stories

[Ziarat al-Sham p. 45]: great scholar, imam and zahid, and hadith narrator, inserted as judge of Damascus by `Umar b. al-Khattab
passed away during the reign of Caliph sayyiduna Uthman Ibn 'Affan (?!? d. 24 ?!?)
buried in bab al-Saghir
his wife Umm Darda' al-sughra is buried in the same grave, she was a tabi`i
signs with both of their names were found in 1932 20 m west of the grave of sayyidina Mu`awiah (cf ZaS p.46:f7)

خولة بنت الأزور الصحابية - Sister of  Darar b.al-Azur. One of the bravest women who fought in the battlefield.

[ZaSh p. 9] owner of the secret (sahib al-sirr) of the P (s), one of those told "عليكم بالشام"

[ahm-fb]
of the sahaba who wrote down hadith [sheikh Akram]

[ZaS p, 46-47]:
Appointed by Sayyiduna `Umar as Amir over Damascus, served for 20 years, then as a Caliph for another 20 years. Buried in Bab al-Saghir. However, Abu Bakr al-Muhibb and ibn Taymiyyah- and Ibn Kathir supports it - say that Mu`awiah's grave is in the qibla wall of thee Umawi mosque in the green Amara castle (في الحائة القبلي من جامع دمشق في قصر الأمارة الخضراء), that pple call the grave of Hud (though Hud is unanimously buried in Yaman), and htat the Mu`awiah that is ouside bab al-Saghir is Abu Layla Mu`awiah b. Yazid b. Mu`awiah, who ruled for 40 days and was virtuous and ascetic.
[ZaSh p. 10:f2] Umawi ruler in Sham (~ 20-70)

[sheikh Akram]: of the great muhaddithin if Kufa

of the great muhaddithin if Kufa, related from `AbduAllah ibn Mas`ud [sheikh Akram]

[sheikh Akram] of the great muhaddithin if Kufa

faqih, wa`izh, who preached sternly to the pple of Damascus during the caliphate of Abd al-Malik; al-Dhahabi called him the scholar of the pple of Sham. [ZaSh p. 9:f1]

[ZaSh p. 9:f4] says d. 83
sahabi of ahl al-suffa, served the Prophet (s) for 3 years
the last sahabi to pass away in Damascus

- of the umawi rulers, faqih w. wide knowledge, pious; the first in islam to be called `abd al-Malik [Ziarat al-Sham p. 33:f4]

- his wife Umm al-banain `Atiqa bint Yazid b. Mu`awiah b. Abi Sufian is buried outside bab al-Jabiah west of damascus [Ziarat al-Sham p. 33]

took hadith from ¥Aishah, she was his maternal aunt [sheikh Akram]

called "`Ali the younger", he has a masjid in the north-estern part of the Umawi mosque, where he used too pray 1000 rakat every day [Ziarat al-Sham p.  20]

of ethiopian origin, student of ¿bdAllahi b. `Abbas and Ibn `Umar, buried in al-Wasit [kitab al-isharat]

faqih of the pple of Kufa
tabi`, met sayyidatuna Aisha, but no narration from her is confirmed
He heard from the greatest of hte tabi`in, among them `Alqama and his two maternal uncles, Aswad and `Abd al-Rahman the two sons of Yazid, al-Masruq, Abu `Ubayda b. `Abd Alllah et al.
From him narrated amongst others: al-A`mash, and Hammad b. Abi Sulayman the sheikh of Abu Hanifa

built the Umawi mosque, after demolishing the church that was in its place; also rebuilt the Prophets (s) mosque in Madina and the Dome of hte Rock in Jerulsalem.

buried in Bab al-Saghir, 20 armlengths north of Mu`ayiah [Ziarat al-Sham p.  75]

He was one of the ten promised Janna. He was amir of the mujahids at the time of the  opening Dimashq.
Outside Bab al-Jabia, Abu `Ubayda built a mosque over the place of worship of ibn Jarrah, known as Masjid Ibn `Ubayda [ZaSh p. 34]

he was someone other than Aws b. Abi Aws and Aws b. Hadhifa, as verified by Ibn Hajar
sahabi, of ahl-al-sufa, who lived in Sham, his house was his place of worship, it was opposite the city wall of Damascus, opposite of the southern alley, as mentioned in al-Nawawi's Tahdhib, and Abu Ishaq Ibrahim al-Naji d. 900 said his house was were the Sabuniyyah madrasa is. His grave is opposite of the Sabuniyyah madrasa in Damascus. (d. towards the end of the caliphate of Sayyiduna `Uthman) [Ziarat al-Sham p. 43-44]

Transmitted hadith from Anas b. Malik, wife (originally slave) of the Andalusian scholar in tradition Habib Dahhun

grand-daughter of Abida al-Madaniyyah, Transmitted hadith from Anas b. Malik

(fought alongside with the Prophet (s)) [gfh]

Buried near Bab Sharqi [ZaSH]

Buried near Bab Sharqi [ZaSh]

Buried near Bab Sharqi (disputed) [ZaSh]

His legs are buried in masjid al-aqSab near Maqbara al-Dahdah [ZaSh p. 94 ]

al-Harawi mentions a shrine in Takrit and one in Hilla

al-Harawi mentions a shrine in Mosul

al-Harawi mentions his tomb in Baghdad

from Iran, he and `amr ibn al-`As where of the sahaba who wrote down hadith [sheikh Akram]

Narrated to the pple of isfahan 4000 hadith from memory [sheikh Akram]

Tested Abu Hurayrah’s hadith memorisation [sheikh Akram]

related hadith from `Aishah [sheikh Akram]

the righteous caliph, called the 5th of the righly guided caliphs, Abu Hafs . His wife, Fatima bint `Abd al-Malik gave witness of his taqwa.
His rule lasted 2 and a falf years, like that of Sayyidina Abu Bakr al-siddiq
Died poisoned in 101, buried in Badi`al-Sam`ani what is now ArD al-Ma`rah

Perhaps the most outstanding student of Imaam `Ali ibn Abi  Taalib, as well as a long time disciple of Shaikha Raabi`a al-`Adawiyyah. He was the son of two freed slaves of the   two Sahaaba Umm ul-Mu’minin Umm Salama and Sayyiduna Zaid ibn Thaabit. Imaam al-Basri studied Tasawwuf as well as the science of hadith. His   constant practice was to wear a black turban.

محمد بن سيرين البصري ، إمام وقته في علوم الدين بالبصرة، ولد بها سنة 33هـ، وبها توفي سنة ‍‍110هـ، ينسب له كتاب تعبير الرؤيا، وهو مطبوع، أنظر ترجمته في وفيات الأعيان لابن خلكان ج 1 ص 453، وفي حلية الأولياء لأبي نعيم ج 2 ص 263، وفي كشف الظنون لحاجي خليفة ج 2 ص 1058، وفي الأعلام للزركلي ج 6 ص 154، وفي الطبقات الكبرى للشعراني ج 1 ص 36، رقم الترجمة 49

of the great tabi`in of Hijaz (al-tabi`in al-kibar),
amongst his students where Abu Hanifa and Sufyan;
Malik disavowed his hadith “because I saw him narrating hadith while standing”

Heard from sahaba such as: his master Ibn `Umar, Abu Hurayra, Abu Sa`id al-Khadari, Abu Lubaba, R’fi`b. KhadÓj, `Aisha, al-Rubbayyi`bitn Ma`šdh.
And from tabi`in in such as: ...
From him narrated: (long list including) hg-Zuhriyy, al-A`mash, al-Awza`Ìyy, Malik etc.

"imam of the pple of Sham"
lived at the time of `Umar b. `Abd al.`Aziz
went with him to qasiun to ask for rain

faqih. tabi`
freed slave who lived in Dimashq and passed away there
travelled widely to obtain knolwedge
narrated from sahab such as: Anas b. Malk, Abu Hind al-D^ariyy, W’thila b. al-Asq`, ... , Umm Ayman; and from tabi`in such as Ibn Musayyib, Warrad the writer of Mughira, masruq, ...., `Urwa b. Zubayr,  Umm Darda' al-Sughra et al.
From him narrated (long list including) al-Auza`iyy, al-Zuhriyy et al.

of the great tabi`in (al-tabi`in al-kibar) in Hijaz,
“he was amongst the tabi`in what Abu Hurayra was amonst the sahaba”
teacher of `Uyayna and A`mash

Den st–rste k”nnare av islamiska traditioner (muhaddith) som levde i Kufah under den tiden var Sulaiman b. Mihran, b”ttre k”nd under namnet Amash. Amash hade l”rt direkt under Anas bin Malik, som varit personlig medhj”lpare till Profeten Muhammad (frid vare med honom) under hans sista tio levnadsÂr. Bland Amashs elever var Sufyan Thauri och Shubah, ”ven de stora hadith-auktoriteter. Shubah var bÂde l”rare och medstudent till Abu Hanifa, och var mycket f”st vid honom, och Amash blev med tiden sj”lv elev till Abu Hanifa.

Shaikh ul-Islam and one of the foremost collectors of   the ahaadith with the other four great imaams, he was born and bred in today’s   Syria. He narrated and learned from more than 11 students of the Sahaaba. He   spoke truth and righteousness wherever he went and had not fear of the governmental   authorities or what others might think of him for telling the truth.

Born in Ba`labak 88 H, died 157 H. in Bayrut. His name is possibly derived from the name of a village outside Bab al-faradis in Damascus, where he lived, and where a number of different tribes gathered in the early times of Islam.
Imam ahl al-Sham undsputedly. All of Sham and Maghrib were on his madhhab util they took the madhhab of Imam Makik. He lived outside Bab al_Farardis in Dimashq, then moved to Bairut,
Tabi`u al-tabi`in, heard  from tabi`in: `Ata b. Abi Rab’h, Qat’da, N’fi` mawla Ibn `Umar, al-Zuhriyy, et al. From him tiook his shuyukh, plus Malik, Sufyan, Shu`ba, Ibn al-Mubarak, and innumerable more.
Began to give fatwa at age of 13, said to have given fatwa ion 70-80.000 masa'il

 “Amir al-Mu’minin fil hadith”
didn’t teach anyone except if he learnt the adab and accompanied him

“Ya ma`shara al-`ulema’i ya milH al-balad / man YusliHu al-milHa idha al-milHu fasada? ”

Of bani Thawr of ibn `Abd Manat, born 97 in Kufa and grew up there.
The `Abassid Ruler al-Mansur tempted him with power but he declined. He then left Kufa and lived in Makka and Medina. Then al-Mahdi sought him, and he went into hiding and moved to Basra, where he passed away incognito in 161. "A man should not take sciences and hadith until he has worked on his adab for 20 years"

Known as Shaikh ul-Islam and Leader of the Believers   in hadith, he was one of the great students of the students of the Sahaaba.   He had his own madhhab in fiqh and was an absolute mujtahid. He was a contemporary   to Imaams Maalik and Abu Hanifa.

Scholar of Basra; it was sayd: “the difference bewteen him and Hammad ibn Zaid al-Dirham (?) was like the difference between a dinar and a dirham” – however Hammad ibn Zaid (d. 179) (al-Dirham) surpassed him in hadith, and Bukhari would not narrate from him

originally from Isbahan, passed away in madina year 179
one of the seven Q. reciters
not a hadith scholar acc. to Imam Ahmad

Imaam `Abdullah ibn alMubaarak (118-181 H.))
One of the 40 qaadis who passed rulings on the panel of Imaam   Abu Hanifa RH, he was a decorated war veteran and a master in the science of   hadith. He would send letters back from the battlefield to his friends and   ask them to join him.

One of the long standing companions of Imaam Maalik ibn Anas, his level in Maaliki fiqh is like that of Imaam Abu Hanifa’s two famous students, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ash-Shaibaani. He died at the long lived age of 63, an accomplished source for the Maaliki School   and one of the main pools of righteousness that Imaam Sahnun, another Imaam   from the school, would collect from in order to document the rulings within   the school.

.أبو عبد الله عبد الرحمان بن القاسم العتقي المصري ، أشهر تلامذة الإمام مالك وأثبتهم رواية عنه، ولد بمصر عام 132هـ، وبها توفي في شهر صفر عام 191هـ، أنظر ترجمته في وفيات الأعيان لابن خلكان ج 1 ص 276، وفي حسن المحاضرة للسيوطي ج 1 ص 121، وفي الأعلام للزركلي ج 3 ص 323، وفي شجرة النور الزكية لمخلوف ص 58 رقم الترجمة 24، وفي الفكر السامي للحجوي ج 1 ص 516 رقم الترجمة 250.

One of the major students of Imaam Abu Hanifa and one of   his 40 qaadis that used to preside over fiqh cases, this noble scholar was   also one of the teachers of Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal.

lived in Kufa, (b. 127 or 129 H. - d. 197)
(mentions only his relation to Imam Ahmad)
Narrated from and to (long lists)
Imam  Ahmad praised his wara`and and uprightness and adab and hifzh:
"I never saw any books or papers with him"
"He is more beloved to me than Yahya ibn Sa`id" because "Waki`was a friend to HafS b. Ghiy’s, and when he took up the the office as a judge we parted from him. And Yahya b. Sa`id was a friend to Ma`bad b. Mu`’dh. and Ma`bad took up the the office as a judge and Yahya did not part from him."
Ibn Ma`Ón said about him: He was in his time what al-Auz’ Ïyy was in his time."
buried in a village named Qaid midway between Kufa and Makka (foot note on his burial place)

A Makkan scholar of high repute who met some 85 students   of the Sahaaba, he was one of the most famous teachers of Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal. As a scholar of hadith and their application, he was sought after in his   time due to his rigorous standards in study as well as great erudition. He   taught Tasawwuf and the higher sciences of Qur’anic recital and interpretation.

narrated from Al-Zuhri (d. 124) and Ibn Dinar (d. 115) (=the great tabi`in of Hijaz),
Sheikh of al-Shafi`i (d. 204) and ibn Hanbal (d. 241) and al-Bukhari (d. 256);
“If it were not for Malik and `Uyaynah, knowledge would have disappeared from Hijaz”

One of the top students of Sayyiduna Ibn `Abbas, he was also a teacher of `Umar ibn `Abdul `Aziz. He specialised   in the explanation and interpretation of the Qur’an and its’ sub-categories.

Ibn Yunus said: He narrated from malik and al-Laith, and from him narrated many amonst them al-Hasan b. MaS`ab and Ibn SabiH and Al-Ta’iyy [footnote i Q]

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= Abul Hasan al-Sirri (Sari) b.Mughallas al-Saqati (d. 253 in Baghdad) [harawi]
- the imam of Baghdad of his day, and one of the first formultators of sufi sayings [harawi]
- Student of Ma`aruf al-Karkhi, maternal uncle of al-Junayd and his teacher [Q]
- Born and died in Baghdad, took hadith from al-FaDil, from him narrated al-Junayd and Abu al-`Abbas b. Masruq, the first in Baghdad to speak about al-haqa’iq wa al-isharat [footnote in Q]

scholar of the ppl of Madina, write about the Quareish and their lineaage, history of the arabs and of Madina, al-Aws wa al-Khazraj; one of the teachers of Ibn Abi Dunia (d. 281) [Ziarat al-Sham p. 25:f4]

disagreed w. imam al-Bukhari concerning khalq al-Quran (see my notes) [sheikh Akram]

[bb-hadith]
[ahm-fb]: in Baghdad, arrator of ascetical, edifying stories and hadith
muhaddith, hafiz; among other things write a book about the murderer of  `Ali b. abi Talib; took from Zubayr b. Abi Bakr (d. 256) [Ziarat al-Sham p. 25:f3]

[ahm-fb]: muhaddith born in Basra, taught in Isfahan, Badgad / Syria; “Musnad” (?!?)
[ZaSh. p.8:f2] Hafiz among the hadith scholars, he has two Musnads

d. 297 acc. to [a`lam al-sufiyyah] and [harawi]
[ahm-fb]: followed Abu Thawr in fiqh
Junayd was a nephew of Sirri
Junayd's mother was the sister of Sari Saqati, and Junayd became his pupil and disciple. He was also the pupil of Harith al-Muhasibi.

sain tof damascus, wife of Ahmad b. Abi al-Haw’ri, buried in Qaimiriah, met al-Junayd and Shiekh Suleyman al-D’r’ni [ZaSH p. 81]

[ZaSH p. 10:1] of the foremost of the huffazh of hadith of Baghdad, whotes books about hte synan, and he has a high standing in ahkam

travelled from Baghdad and settled in Dimashq, was martyred b/c of resisting corruption; buried in Bab al-Saghir opposite of the Jarrahi mosque.

= Ibn Hibban, M. b. Hibban b. Ahmad, Abu Hatim al-Busti al-Tamimi al-Shafi`i
[Ziarat al-Sham p. 4:f7] (d. 354) Muhaddith, historian, geographer, author of al-Musnad al-Sahih, said to be more sahih than Ibn Majah's
[ahm-fb states d. 352]
[nuh]: muhaddith, shafi`i faqih[bb-hadith]: student of ibn Khuzaimah

Al-Qaffal al-Shashi, Muhammad ibn `Ali ibn Isma`il, Abu Bakr al-Qaffal  al-Shashi al-Shafi`i (d. 365), a companion of al-Ash`ari and like him a former Mu`tazili,  he became an imam of jurisprudence and its principles, a hadith scholar, the imam of Shafi`is in Transoxiana, and the author of important works in the school  according to al-Fayruzabadi. He took hadith from Ibn Khuzayma, al-Tabari,  al-Baghawi, and others. From him took, among others, al-Hakim, Ibn Mandah, al-Sulami, and  al-Halimi who said: "Our shaykh al-Qaffal was the most knowledgeable of the  scholars of his time I have met." Among his books are " Dala'il al-Nubuwwa ,"  " Mahasin al-Shari`a ," and a commentary on al-Shafi`i's " al-Risala ."  Al-Dhahabi said: "Among his rare conclusions quoted in [Nawawi's] " Rawda  al-Talibin " [1:401] is that the sick person is allowed to join two prayers  together."

Abu Sahl al-Su`luki, Muhammad ibn Sulayman ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman   al-Shafi`i al-`Ijli al-Naysaburi al-Ash`ari al-Sufi of the Banu Hanifa (d. 369), the imam of Khurasan among the jurists and scholars of kalaam ,tafsir , and Arabic in   his time. He accompanied Abu Ishaq al-Marwazi in fiqh and al-Shibli in tasawwuf ,   and took hadith from Ibn Khuzayma, Ibn Abi Hatim, Ibn al-Anbari, and others.   Al-Sulami in " Tabaqat al-Sufiyya " and al-Qushayri in " al-Risalah "   related from Ibn Furak that al-Su`luki defined tasawwuf as "the turning away   from objections" (" al-i`rad `an al-i`tiraad .") Among his other   famous sayings: "Whoever says to his shaykh : 'Why?' shall never succeed."   He spent seven years in Baghdad during which he said that he never let pass a day of jum`a except he visited al-Shibli or asked him a question. The latter visited Abu Ishaq   al-Marwazi one day and saw Abu Sahl there, whereupon he said to Abu Ishaq: "That   crazy one is one of your companions? No, he is one of ours!" In Baghdad he also   studied with al-Ash`ari according to Ibn Furak.

Companion of al-Ash`ari   and teacher of Ibn Furak, al-Baqillani, and Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini. Always engaged in   Remembrance of Allah, he taught and communicated only from behind a curtain, even with his   servant. Al-Isfarayini said: "Next to my teacher al-Bahili, I was like a drop in the   sea." Al-Bahili himself said: "Next to my master al-Ash`ari, I was like a drop   in the sea." [note by: Dr. A. Godlas: Al-Safadi stated that he passed away  around  ( fi hudud ) 370 AH ( Wafi bil-wafayat , vol. 12, p.  312)].

Abu Zayd al-Marwazi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn `Abd Allah al-Shafi`i   (301-371), praised by al-Hakim as "one of the Imams of the Muslims, of the   most mastery in the madhhab , most perspicuous, and most ascetic," and by   al-Dhahabi as "the Shaykh , the Imam , the Mufti , the Guide, the   Ascetic, the Shaykh of the Shafi`is and narrator of al-Bukhari's " Sahih "   from al-Firabri." From him narrated al-Hakim, al-Sulami, al-Daraqutni, al-Barqani,   al-Sabbagh, and others. He studied as a young man under al-Ash`ari in Baghdad. Al-Bazzaz   said of him: "I rode with the faqeeh Abu Zayd from Naysabur to Mecca, and I do   not know that the angels recorded any sin to his detriment." Al-Khatib said: "He   is the most impressive narrator of Bukhari's ‘ Sahih .’" He   transmitted the latter book notably to Ibn Mujahid.

Al-Isma`ili, Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn Isma`il ibn al-`Abbas, Abu Bakr  al-Jurjani al-Shafi`i, known as al-Isma`ili (277-371), "The imam, hadith master, "Proof of the Religion," faqeeh, " Shaykh ul-Islam ," and  narrator of Bukhari's ‘ Sahih .’" Al-Hakim described him as the " shaykh both of the jurists and the hadith scholars of his time by the consensus of both  groups." He did not attend any gathering except they made him the only speaker. In  " al-Mustakhraj `ala al-Sahih " he compiled four volumes of hadith narrations with the grade of saheeh according to al-Bukhari's criterion but  with his own chains of transmission. Ibn `Asakir included him among the direct students  and companions of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash`ari.

Al-Naqqash, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-`Abbas, Abu Ja`far al-Sulami  al-Baghdadi al-Jawhari al-Naqqash (294-379), a trustworthy narrator of hadith ,  which he took from al-Baghandi, al-Baghawi, Ibn Abi Dawud, Ibn al-Muqri' and others, and  from whom took Abu `Ali ibn Shadhan, Abu al-Qasim al-Azhari, `Ali al-Tannukhi, and others.  He is included by al-Dhahabi and Ibn `Asakir among the direct students of al-Ash`ari in kalaam ,  which he then taught to Abu `Ali ibn Shadhan.

Abu al-Hasan al-Tabari, `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Mahdi (d. ~380). He   studied under al-Ash`ari in Basra and Abu al-Hasan al-Bahili, and accompanied Abu Ishaq   al-Isfarayini, Abu Bakr ibn Furak, and Abu Bakr al-Baqillani.  ...

Al-Qurashi al-Zuhri, `Abd al-Wahid ibn Ahmad ibn al-Qasim, Abu Muhammad  al-Naysaburi (d. 382), a descendent of `Abd al-Rahman ibn `Awf and one of those listed by  Ibn `Asakir among the direct students of al-Ash`ari. Al-Hakim reports that he fasted all  year and completed the recitation of the Qur'an every other day. He took hadith  from Abu Hamid ibn Bilal and Abu Bakr al-Qattan and their contemporaries and was  al-Hakim's colleague.

Abu `Abd Allah al-Shafi`i, Muhammad ibn al-Qasim, Abu `Abd Allah al-Asbahani, known as al-Shafi`i (d. 381). He is included by Ibn `Asakir among the direct students of   al-Ash`ari. The hadith master Abu Nu`aym mentioned that he authored many works in the foundations of religion, jurisprudence, and legal rulings.

Al-Awdani, Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Nasr or Nusayr or   Basir, Abu Bakr al-Awdani al-Bukhari al-Shafi`i (d. 385), the foremost imam of the   Shafi`is in Transoxiana in his time and a hadith scholar, Ibn `Asakir listed him   among the direct students of al-Ash`ari. He studied under Abu Mansur ibn Mihran and took hadith from Ya`qub ibn Yusuf al-`Asimi, Abu Ya`la al-Nasafi, al-Haytham al-Shashi, and others.   From him narrated al-Hakim, al-Halimi, and others. Al

Ibn Sam`un, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Isma`il ibn `Anbas, Abu al-Husayn  al-Baghdadi (300-387), "the Shaykh , the Imam , the great orator, and the shaykh of his time in Baghdad" in tasawwuf , preaching, and kalaam ,  mentioned by Ibn `Asakir among the direct students of al-Ash`ari, he took hadith from Ibn Abi Dawud, Muhammad ibn Makhlad al-`Attar, Ibn Abi Hudhayfa, and others. From him  narrated among others `Ali ibn Talha al-Muqri', al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Khallal, Khadija  bint Muhammad al-Shahjaniyya, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hammaduh al-Hanbali, and Abu `Abd  al-Rahman al-Sulami ... (long) In the year 426, Ibn Sam`un's body was carried from the grave in his  house and buried in the cemetary of Bab Harb. It is related that his shroud had not  changed in the least.

Al-Shuruti, Abu `Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi `Abd al-Rahman al-Jurjani  al-Qattan (d. 389), a specialist of legal pre-requisites in transactions ( shurut )  mentioned by Ibn `Asakir among the first generation of al-Ash`ari's students, he took hadith from Abu Ya`qub al-Nahawi and his layer.

Al-Sarakhsi, Zahir ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Abu `Ali al-Muqri'  al-Khurasani al-Shafi`i (293-389), "the imam and erudite scholar, faqeeh of Khurasan, and shaykh of the Qur'an -reciters and hadith scholars."  He took hadith from masters in Khurasan, Iraq, and elsewhere, among others from  al-Baghawi, then settled in Naysabur. Among those who took hadith from him:  al-Hakim and Abu `Uthman al-Sabuni. Ibn `Asakir, al-Dhahabi, and al-Subki include him  among al-Ash`ari's students.

One of Abu Bakr  al-Isma`ili's sons. Hamza ibn Yusuf al-Sahmi said in his history of Jurjan: "The imam  of his time, foremost in fiqh and its usul, the Arabic language, legal pre-requisites, and  kalam. He refuted al-Jassas. He formed generations of jurists from Jurjan, Tabaristan, and  elsewhere. ... He was named "the Ocean son of the Ocean" in reference to his father Abu Bakr  al-Isma`ili. Another of his titles is "The Greatest Shaykh" (al-shaykh  al-akbar). Abu al-Tayyib al-Su`luki, Sahl ibn Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-`Ijli al-Naysaburi  al-Shafi`i of the Banu Hanifa (d. 403), "the erudite imam," like his father Abu  Sahl mufti of Naysabur and among its chief jurists and educators.He took fiqh and hadith from his father, Abu al-`Abbas al-Asamm, al-Hakim, and others.  From him narrated, among others, his own shaykh al-Hakim and al-Bayhaqi. ... Some scholars considered him the renewer of the Religion at the head of the fifth  Islamic century, together with al-Baqillani and Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini.

A companion of al-Ash`ari and one of   the shaykhs of hadith of al-Hakim, who said of him: "I seldom saw,   among the jurists (al-fuqaha’ ), anyone as eloquent and clear in his speech. I   kept company with him in the year 359, from Naysabur to Bukhara."

, the  teacher and father-in law of Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri and the foremost Sufi shaykh in  his time. An Arabized Persian from Naysabur, he took usul there and fiqh from Marw at the  hands of al-Khudari and Abu Bakr al-Qaffal al-Marwazi. He then took tasawwuf from Abu  al-Qasim al-Nasrabadhi. Al-Qushayri relates that his knees would shake in his presence. In  his Risala he relates from him...

mystic of great fame, disciple of Abu Nasr al-Sarraj, teacher of Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Khayr.

[ahm-fb]: maliki fqih & kalam expert, buried in Tilmsa; wrote commentaries on SH and Muwatta

Al-Baqillani, Muhammad ibn al-Tayyib ibn Muhammad ibn Ja`far, Shaykh al-Islam, al-Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Baqillani al-Basri al-Baghdadi al-Maliki al-Ash`ari (d. 403), eulogized by al-Dhahabi as "the erudite imam , peerless of the mutakallimeen , and foremost of the scholars of usul , author of many books, the exemplar of perspicuity and intelligence." Al-Qadi `Iyad said: "He is known as the ‘Sword of the Sunna (Sayf al-Sunna )’ and the ‘Spokesman of the Community ( Lisan al-Umma ),’ a mutakallim who spoke the language of the hadith scholars, adhering to the doctrine of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash`ari, and the apex of Maliki scholars in his time. His gathering in al-Basra was huge."
Al-Baqillani took al-Ash`ari's teachings from Ibn Mujahid. .....

Al-Hakim, Muhammad ibn `Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Hamduyah, Abu `Abd Allah al-Dabbi al-Tamhani al-Naysaburi al-Shafi`i, also known as Ibn al-Bayyi` (d. 405). The imam ,hadith master, expert in hadith criticism, and shaykh of hadith masters. He took hadith from about two thousand authorities in Khurasan, Iraq, Transoxiana and elsewhere. Among the most prominent of the masters who narrated hadith from him are his own shaykh al-Daraqutni - who declared him stronger in hadith than Ibn Mandah, - al-Bayhaqi, al-Qushayri, and others. Abu Hazim said that al-Hakim was peerless in his time in Khurasan, the Hijaz, al-Sham, Iraq, Rayy, Tabaristan, and Transoxiana. His fame became widespread with lightning speed in his own lifetime.  ... Al-Hakim belongs to the second generation of the Ash`ari school, having taken al-Ash`ari's doctrine at the hands of his students, among them Abu Sahl al-Su`luki. He took tasawwuf from Abu `Amr ibn Nujayd, Abu al-Hasan al-Bushanji, Abu Sa`id Ahmad ibn Ya`qub al-Thaqafi, Abu Nasr al-Saffar, Abu Qasim al-Razi, Ja`far ibn Nusayr, Abu `Amr al-Zujaji, Ja`far ibn Ibrahim al-Hadhdha', and Abu `Uthman al-Maghribi. ... (long)

[ahm-fb]: shafi`i

Ibn Furak, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Furak, Abu Bakr al-Asbahani al-Shafi`i (d. 406),  the imam and foremost specialist of kalam and usuull, transmitter of al-Ash`ari's school,  specialist of Arabic language, grammar, and poetry, orator, jurist, and hadith scholar. He  studied doctrine under al-Ash`ari's companion, Abu al-Hasan al-Bahili, and taught  al-Qushayri and al-Bayhaqi who cites him frequently in al-Asma' wa al-Sifat.  ... (long)

Named Shaykh al-Islam, al-Imam al-Qudwa by al-Dhahabi,  one of the leading scholars, commentators of Qur'an, exceptional orators, pious ascetics,  and hadith narrators of Khurasan. ... He authored a  large Qur'anic commentary, a book on the signs of Prophethood, a book entitled al-Zuhd,  the biographies of pious ascetics, and on other topics. Al-Hakim narrated hadiths from  him. ...

Al-Bastami, Muhammad ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad ibn al-Haytham, Abu `Umar ibn Abi Sa`d al-Shafi`i (d. 408), the orator, qadi , jurist, and shaykh of the Shafi`is in Naysabur. He took hadith from al-Tabarani among others in Iraq, al-Ahwaz, Asbahan, al-Basra, and Sijistan, and from him took al-Hakim, al-Bayhaqi, and others. Through Abu `Umar al-Bastami is related with a very weak chain the hadith of the Prophet ( saw ) from al-Hasan ibn `Ali: "What an excellent key is the gift given before stating one's need!" He married the daughter of Abu al-Tayyib al-Su`luki and came to Baghdad in the lifetime of Abu Hamid al-Isfarayini who gave him esteem and approval

Al-Bajali, `Abd al-Wahid ibn Muhammad ibn `Uthman, Abu al-Qasim ibn Abi `Amr al-Baghdadi al-Shafi`i (d. 410), "the Shafi`i Ash`ari faqeeh ," a descendent of the Companion Jarir ibn `Abd Allah al-Bajali ( ra ). A qadi and specialist of fiqh , the principles of the law, and kalaam , he took hadith from Abu Bakr al-Najjad and others and was trustworthy in hadith narration. He authored books in usul .

b. 325, buried in al-Mada’in, wrote ovr 100 books [harawi]

Ibn Mila, `Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Mila, Abu al-Hasan, Ibn Mashadha al-Asbahani al-Faradi (d. 414), one of the hadith scholars, named " Shaykh al-Islam ," " al-Imam al-Qudwa" and " al-Zahid Shaykh al-Sufiyya" by al-Dhahabi. Ibn Mandah said: "I roamed the East and the West and never saw in the world the like of two men: one of them was the qadi Abu Ahmad al-`Assal, the other was Abu al-Hasan ibn Mashadha the faqeeh ." ... He kept company with Abu Bakr `Abd Allah ibn Ibrahim ibn Wadih and Abu Ja`far Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Mansur and others. He singled himself out in his time in his narration from Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Yunus al-Abhari, Abu `Amr ibn Hakim al-Musafihi, al-Aswari, and others.

Al-Sharif Abu Talib, `Abd al-Wahhab ibn `Abd al-Malik ibn al-Muhtadi Billah al-Hashimi al-Dimashqi (d. 415), the Ash`ari jurist.

Abu Ma`mar al-Isma`ili, al-Fadl ibn Isma`il ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim, Abu Ma`mar ibn Abi Sa`d ibn Abi Bakr al-Jurjani (d. 417), he qadi and imam , son of the imam , son of the imam. His grandfather was Abu Bakr al-Isma`ili. He took fro him al-Bukhari's " Sahih " and narrated hadith from his father Abu Sa`d, al-Daraqutni, and others in Baghdad and Mecca before returning to Jurjan.

Al-`Abdawi, `Umar ibn Ahmad ibn Ibrahim ibn `Abduyah, Abu Hazim al-Hudhli al-Mas`udi al-Naysaburi al-A`raj (d. 417), the trustworthy hadith master, named al-Imam al-Hafiz Sharaf al-Muhaddithin by al-Dhahabi. Among his shaykhs were the hadith masters Abu Bakr al-Isma`ili, Abu al-Hasan al-Hajjaji, and al-Hakim. Al-Khatib, Abu Salih al-Mu'adhdhin, and others narrated from him.

Abu Ishaq  al-Isfarayini, Ibrahim ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Mihran, Rukn al-Din, al-Naysaburi  al-Shafi`i (d. 418), the faqeeh, expert in usul, kalam, and the Arabic language, "the  most unique erudite imam and teacher" according to al-Dhahabi.  He reached the rank of ijtihad. He was scrupulously pious, devoted to worship, and most  trustworthy in hadith narration. He took hadith in Iraq and Khurasan from Da`laj al-Sajzi,  Abu Bakr al-Shafi`i, Abu Bakr al-Isma`ili and others, and from him took al-Bayhaqi,  al-Qushayri, and Abu al-Tayyib al-Tabari among others. He authored al-Jami` fi Usul al-Din  wa al-Radd `ala al-Mulhidin ("The Compendium in the Principles of the Religion and  the Refutation of the Atheists") and other works. A major school was built for him in  Naysabur. Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi said in his Tabaqat al-Fuqaha': "The majority of the  shaykhs of Naysabur took kalam and usul from him." ... (more)

Last great Hanafi scholar in Iraq [maraqi]

[ghadir][bb-hadith] [nuh][gfh]
[ahm-fb]: “Hilyat al-awlia’”
[ZaSh p8] also wrote "Dhikr akhbar Isbahan"

(see also his son: ibn al-Juwaini, imam al-Haramain)

[ahm-fb]: maliki from Cordoba, first commentary on SH

Al-Bayhaqi, Ahmad ibn al-Husayn ibn `Ali ibn `Abd Allah ibn Musa, Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi  al-Naysaburi al-Khusrawjirdi al-Shafi`i al-Ash`ari (384-458), "the jurisprudent imam,  hadith master, authority in the foundations of doctrine (usuli), scrupulous and devoted  ascetic, defender of the School both in its foundations and its branches, one of the  mountains of Islamic knowledge." He is known in the books of the scholars of Naysabur  and his direct students as "al-faqeeh Ahmad." - He took kalam from the two Ash`ari imams Ibn Furak and Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, but he  had more than a hundred shaykhs ... Al-Bayhaqi took fiqh from the imam Abu al-Fath Nasir ibn al-Husayn ibn Muhammad  al-Qurashi al-`Umari al-Marwazi al-Shafi`i al-Naysaburi (d. 444). Imam al-Haramayn said:  "There is no Shafi`i except he owes a huge debt to al-Shafi`i, except al-Bayhaqi, to  whom al-Shafi`i owes a huge debt for his works which imposed al-Shafi`i's school and his  sayings." ... (long article)

[goldz/female musnids]: No transmitter of the Bukhari could compete with her isnad
Abu Dharr of Harat (himself a great authority in ilm al-hadith) says of this woman before his death, 'Keep exclusively to Karima, because she has acquired the knowledge of al-Bukhari's work in the line of transmission (tariq) of Abu'l-Haytham"

[ahm-fb]: chief judge of Lisbon; books on hadith methodology & grammar

[ahm-fb]: shafi`i muhaddith of Nishapur “Al-Risala”

daughter of a school teacher
famed as a calligrapher and expert in traditions [goldz/female musnids]

(anti-ash`ari)
“sheikh al-Islam” Hanbali muhaddith of Heart, sufi (“Manazil al-sa’irin”) & “Mun’j’t”

= Ibn al-Maghazili, `Ali b. M., Abu al-Hasan al-Tayyib al-Jullabi al-Shafi`i [ghadir]

Sheikh of th Shafi`is in Sham, shafi`i faqih and hadith narrator, immigrated to Damascus from al-Quds. Student of Salim ibn Ayyub al-Razi, one of the teachers of imam al-Ghazali. [Ziarat al-Sham p. 57-60]

= al-Ghazali, Muhammad b. Muhammad, Abu Hamid al-Tusi al-Shafi`i (d. 505) [gk]
(hts-brief note) [a`lam al-sufiyyah]
born in Tus, then travelled to Nisabur, then to Baghdad, then Hijaz, then Sham, then Misr, then he returned to Khurasan.
Studied w. Imam al-Haramayn [Adab al-Suhba p.70f3]