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Mujahid
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d.102
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Mujahid ibn Jabr, Abu al-Hajjaj al-Makhzumi
One of the major commentators of Qur'an among the Tābi'īn and of the highest rank in reliability among hadith narrators (thiqa).
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Khālid ibn Ma`dān
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d.~103-105
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Khalid ibn Ma`dan ibn Abi Karib al-Kila`i
He met seventy Companions but most of his narrations from the Companions are missing a link (mursal). He is one of the trustworthy early Imāms of fiqh and h.adīth Masters.,
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Abu Hanifa (ra)
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d.150
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AL-NU`MAN IBN THABIT al-Taymi, al-Imam Abu Hanifa
First of the four Mujtahid Imams and the only Successor (Tābi`i) among them
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Sufyān al-Thawrī
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97-161
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Sufyān ibn Sa.īd ibn Masrūq Abū .Abd Allāh al-Thawrī al-Mud.arī al-Kūfī
the Godfearing, wise, grief-stricken, Mujtahid Imām, .Commander of the Believers in H. adīth. . the highest level in h.adīth Mastership ., .Shaykh al-Islām, the Imām of h.adīth Masters, the leader of the practicing Ulema in his time, the author of the Jāmi. .
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Imam al-Shafi`i
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d.204
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Muhammad ibn Idris ibn al-`Abbas, al-Imam al-Shafi`i, Abu `Abd Allah al-Shafi`i al-Hijazi al-Qurashi al-Hashimi al-Muttalibi
The offspring of the House of the Prophet, the peerless one of the great mujtahid imams and jurisprudent par excellence, the scrupulously pious ascetic and Friend of Allah, he laid down the foundations of fiqh in his Risala,
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Ibn Abi Shayba
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d.235
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Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Shayba Ibrahim ibn 'Uthman ibn Khuwasta, Abu Bakr al-'Abasi
"The master of hadith masters," "one of those who have reached the sky, an apex of trustworthiness," "one of the oceans of knowledge," the author of al-Musnad, al-Ahkam, al-Musannaf, and al-Tafsir, "
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AL-KHATIB AL-BAGHDADI
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392-463
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Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Thabit ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Shafi`i
with Abu al-Ma`ali Ibn al-Juwayni and Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri the third most important figure in the fourth generation-layer of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash`ari's school, praised by al-Dhahabi as "the most peerless imam, erudite scholar and mufti, meticulous hadith master, scholar of his time in hadith, prolific author, and seal of the hadith masters.
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Muhammad al-Tustari
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d. 283
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Sahl ibn `Abd Allah ibn Yunus, Abu Muhammad al-Tustari
may Allah be well-pleased with him. Named by al-Dhahabi "the master of knowers (shaykh al-`ārifīn), the ascetic sufi (al-suufī al-zāhid)... He has a firm foothold in the path." He related that when he was three years old he would wake up at night to watch his uncle Muhammad ibn al-Sawwar pray. He spent his early years with his uncle and Dhu al-Nun al-Misri whom he met during pilgrimage.
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AL-JUNAYD AL-BAGHDADI
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d.298
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Al-Junayd ibn Muhammad ibn al-Junayd, Abu al-Qasim al-Qawariri al-Khazzaz al-Nahawandi al-Baghdadi al-Shafi`i
The Imam of the World in his time, shaykh of the Sufis and "Diadem of the Knowers," he accompanied his maternal uncle Sari al-Saqati, al-Harith al-Muhasibi, and others.
Abu Sahl al-Su`luki narrates that as a boy al-Junayd heard his uncle being asked about thankfulness, whereupon he said: "It is to not use His favors for the purpose of disobeying Him."
He took fiqh from Abu Thawr - in whose circle he would give fatwas at twenty years of age - and, it was also said, from Sufyan al-Thawri. He once said: "Allah did not bring out a single science on earth accessible to people except he gave me a share in its knowledge." He used to go to the market every day, open his shop, and commence praying four hundred rak`as until closing time.
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