vte Early Islamic scholars

Muhammad (570–
632) prepared the
Constitution of
Medina, taught the
Quran, and advised
his companions

Aisha,
Muhammad's
`Abd Allah bin Ali (607– Umar (579–644)
wife and Abu Abd Allah ibn Abbas Zayd ibn Thabit Abu Hurairah (603–
Masud (died 650) 661) fourth second caliph
Bakr's (618–687) taught (610–660) taught 681) taught
taught caliph taught taught
daughter
taught

Qasim ibn
Muhammad Abd Allah ibn al-
Husayn ibn Urwah ibn Zubayr (died Said ibn al-
Alqama ibn Qays ibn Abu Bakr Abdullah ibn Umar Zubayr (624–692)
Ali (626– 713) taught by Aisha, he Musayyib (637–
(died 681) taught (657–725) (614–693) taught taught by Aisha, he
680) taught then taught 715) taught
taught and then taught
raised by Aisha

Ali ibn
Umar ibn Abdul Aziz
Husayn Zayn
Ibrahim al-Nakha’i Hisham ibn Urwah Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri Salim ibn Abd-Allah (682–720) raised
al-Abidin
taught (667–772) taught (died 741) taught ibn Umar taught and taught by
(659–712)
Abdullah ibn Umar
taught

Muhammad Farwah bint al-Qasim

Hammad bin ibi al-Baqir Abu Bakr's great
Sulman taught (676–733) grand daughter
taught Jafar's mother

Abu Hanifa (699–

767) wrote Al Fiqh Al Ja'far bin
Malik ibn Anas (711–
Akbar and Kitab Al- Muhammad Abu Muhammad
795) wrote Muwatta, Al-Waqidi (748–822)
Athar, jurisprudence Al-Baqir Abdullah ibn Abdul
jurisprudence from early wrote history books like
followed by Sunni, Zayd ibn Ali (702–765) Hakam (died 829)
Medina period now Kitab al-Tarikh wa al-
Sunni Sufi, Barelvi, (695–740) Ali's and Abu wrote biographies and
mostly followed by Maghazi, student of
Deobandi, Zaidiyyah Bakr's great history books, student
Sunni in Africa and Malik ibn Anas
Shia and originally by great grand of Malik ibn Anas
taught
the Fatimid and son taught
taught

Al-Shafi‘i (767–
Ibn Hisham (died
820) wrote Al-
Ali ibn al-Madini (778– 833) wrote early
Abu Yusuf (729– Muhammad Risala,
849) wrote The Book of history and As-Sirah
798) wrote Usul al- al-Shaybani jurisprudence Ismail ibn Ibrahim
Knowledge of the an-Nabawiyyah,
fiqh (749–805) followed by
Companions Muhammad's
Sunni and
biography
taught

Isma'il ibn Ja'far Musa al- Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Bukhari Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj Muhammad ibn Isa Al-Baladhuri (died
 (719–775) Kadhim Hanbal (780– (810–870) wrote Sahih (815–875) wrote at-Tirmidhi (824– 892) wrote early
(745–799) 855) wrote al-Bukhari hadith books Sahih Muslim hadith 892) wrote Jami` history Futuh al-
Musnad books at-Tirmidhi hadith Buldan, Genealogies
Ahmad ibn books of the Nobles
Hanbal
jurisprudence
followed by
Sunni and
hadith books

Ibn Majah (824–

Abu Dawood (817–
887) wrote Sunan
889) wrote Sunan Abu
ibn Majah hadith
Dawood Hadith Book
book

Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abu al-Hasan al-

Ya'qub al-Kulayni Jarir al-Tabari (838– Ash'ari (874–936)
(864- 941) wrote 923) wrote History wrote Maqālāt al-
Kitab al-Kafi hadith of the Prophets and islāmīyīn, Kitāb al-
book followed by Kings, Tafsir al- luma, Kitāb al-ibāna
Twelver Shia Tabari 'an usūl al-diyāna

Al-Ghazali (1058–
Ibn Babawayh (923– Sharif Razi 1111) wrote The
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
991) wrote Man la (930–977) Niche for Lights, Rumi (1207–1273)
(1201–1274) wrote
yahduruhu al-Faqih wrote Nahj The Incoherence of wrote Masnavi,
jurisprudence books
jurisprudence al-Balagha the Philosophers, Diwan-e Shams-e
followed by Ismaili
followed by Twelver followed by The Alchemy of Tabrizi on Sufism
and Twelver Shia
Shia Twelver Shia Happiness on
Sufism

Key: Travelled
extensively
Key: Some of collecting the
Key: Taught Key: Taught
Muhammad's Key: Worked in Syria sayings of Key: Worked in Iran
in Medina in Iraq
Companions Muhammad and
compiled books of
hadith

See also
Islamic scholars
Muhammad al-Shaybani
Sharia
List of Islamic scholars described as father or founder of a field

References
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