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Al-Kutub Al-Sittah‎
Six major Hadith collections
The six major Hadith collections are collections of hadith by Islamic scholars who, approximately 200 years after Muhammad's death and by their own initiative, collected "hadith" attributed to Muhammad...

  • Sahih al-Bukhari
    Sahih al-Bukhari
    Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī , as it is commonly referred to, is one of the six canonical hadith collections of Islam. These prophetic traditions, or hadith, were collected by the Persian Muslim scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, after being transmitted orally for generations. Muslims view this as one of...

     of Muhammad al-Bukhari
    Muhammad al-Bukhari
    Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari , popularly known as Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, , was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Persia...

  • Sahih Muslim
    Sahih Muslim
    Sahih Muslim is one of the Six major collections of the hadith in Sunni Islam, oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. It is the second most authentic hadith collection after Sahih Al-Bukhari, and is highly acclaimed by Sunni Muslims...

     of Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
    Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
    Abul Husayn Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ibn Muslim ibn Warat al-Qushayri al-Nisaburi was the author of the second authentic sahih collection of hadith in Sunni Islam, Sahih Muslim.-Biography:...

  • Sunan al-Sughra of Al-Nasa'i
    Al-Nasa'i
    Al-Nasā'ī , full name Aḥmad ibn Shu`ayb ibn Alī ibn Sīnān Abū `Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Nasā'ī, was a noted collector of hadith , and wrote one of the six canonical hadith collections recognized by Sunni Muslims, Sunan al-Sughra, or "Al-Mujtaba", which he selected from his "As-Sunan al-Kubra"...

  • Sunan Abu Dawud of Abu Dawood
  • Sunan al-Tirmidhi
    Sunan al-Tirmidhi
    Jāmi` al-Tirmidhi , popularly and mistakenly Sunan al-Tirmidhi , is one of the Sunni Six major Hadith collections. It was collected by Abu 'Eesa Muhammad ibn 'Eesa al-Tirmidhi.-Title:...

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    Al-Tirmidhi
    Tirmidhī , also transliterated as Tirmizi, full name Abū ‛Īsá Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Mūsá ibn al Ḍaḥḥāk al-Sulamī al-Sulamī al-Tirmidhī Tirmidhī , also transliterated as Tirmizi, full name Abū ‛Īsá Muḥammad ibn ‛Īsá ibn Sawrah ibn Mūsá ibn al Ḍaḥḥāk al-Sulamī al-Sulamī al-Tirmidhī...

  • Sunan Ibn Majah of Ibn Majah

Primary sources

  • Sunan al-Darimi of Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Darimi
    Al-Darimi
    - Name & Lineage :Abu Muhammad Abdullah Bin Abdur Rahman Bin Fadhl Bin Bahraan Bin Abdus Samad At Tamimi Ad Darimi As Samarqandi,commonly known as Imam Darimi, came from the family tribe of Banu Darim Bin Maalik Bin Hanzalah Bin Zaid Bin Manah Bin Tamim...

  • Al-Muwatta of Malik ibn Anas
    Malik ibn Anas
    Mālik ibn Anas ibn Mālik ibn Abī 'Āmir al-Asbahī is known as "Imam Malik," the "Sheikh of Islam", the "Proof of the Community," and "Imam of the Abode of Emigration." He was one of the most highly respected scholars of fiqh in Sunni Islam...

  • Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
    Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal
    Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal is a collection of Hadith collected by the famous Sunni scholar Ibn Hanbal to whom the Hanbali madhab of Sunnis is attributed.-Description:...

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    Ahmad ibn Hanbal
    Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hanbal Abu `Abd Allah al-Shaybani was an important Muslim scholar and theologian. He is considered the founder of the Hanbali school of fiqh...

  • Sunan Al Baihaqi of Al-Bayhaqi
  • Bulugh al-Maram
    Bulugh al-Maram
    Bulugh al-Maram min Adillat al-Ahkam, translation: Attainment of the Objective According to Evidences of the Ordinances by al-Hafidh ibn Hajar al-Asqalani is a collection of hadith pertaining specifically to Islamic Jurisprudence of the Shafi'i madhab...

     by Ibn Hajar Asqalani

Secondary sources

  • Masabih al-Sunnah
    Masabih al-Sunnah
    Masabih al-Sunnah is a collection of hadith by the Persian Shafi'i scholar Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Mubammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi, from sometime before 516 H. An improved version of this work, Mishkat al-Masabih, has additional hadith, and was the work of another Persian traditionist...

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    Al-Baghawi
    Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Muhammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi was a renowned Persian Muslim Mufassir, hadith scholar and a Shafi`i faqih best known for his major work Tafsir al-Baghawi. Al-Farra was in reference to trading with fur, and al-Baghawi was a reference to his hometown Bagh or...

  • Mishkat al-Masabih
    Mishkat al-Masabih
    Mishkat al-Masabih is an expanded version of by Al-Baghawi's Masabih al-Sunnah by Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd Allāh Khatib Al-Tabrizi. Khatib Al-Tabrizi d. 741H rendered this version of the original text more accessible to those not having an advanced knowledge of the science of hadith...

     by Muhammad ibn Abd Allah Khatib Al-Tabrizi
  • Riyadh as-Saaliheen
    Riyadh as-Saaliheen
    Riyadh as-Saaliheen, translated: "The Gardens of the Righteous", is a compilation of verses from the Qur'an and hadith by Yahiya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi.- Description :...

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  • Talkhis al-Mustadrak by al-Dhahabi
    Al-Dhahabi
    Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn `Uthman ibn Qaymaz ibn `Abd Allah, Shams al-Din Abu `Abd Allah al-Turkmani al-Diyarbakri al-Fariqi al-Dimashqi al-Dhahabi al-Shafi`i , known as Al-Dhahabi , a Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam.-Biography:...

  • Majma al-Zawa'id
    Majma al-Zawa'id
    Majma' al-Zawa'id wa Manba' al-Fawa'id is a secondary hadith collection written by Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami . It compiles the 'unique' hadith of earlier primary collections-Al-Zawa'id:...

     Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami
    Ali ibn Abu Bakr al-Haythami
    Nur al-Din `Ali ibn Abi Bakr ibn Sulayman, Abu al-Hasan al-Haythami was a Sunni Shafi`i Islamic scholar from Cairo, whose father had a shop on a desert road. He was born in the month of Rajab in 735 H. corresponding to 1335 CE...

  • Kanz al-Ummal
    Kanz al-Ummal
    Treasure of the Doers of Good DeedsTreasure of the Doers of Good DeedsTreasure of the Doers of Good Deeds(Arabic: Kanz al-Ummal fi sunan al-aqwal wa'l af`al is an Islamic hadith collection, collected by the Islamic Scholar Ala'Uddin Ali al-Muttaqi ibn Hisam-Uddin al-Hindi.-Description:...

     of Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
    Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik al-Hindi
    Ala al-Din Ali ibn Abd-al-Malik Husam al-Din al-Muttaqi al-Hindi was a Sunni Muslim Islamic scholar who is known for writing Kanz al-Ummal.-External links:...

  • Maariful Hadith by Shaykh Mohammad Manzoor Nomani.
  • Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih
    Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih
    Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih is perhaps one of the earliest known hadith collections, by 8th century scholar Hammam ibn Munabbih. It has been translated, in the 20th century, by Muhammad Hamidullah.-See also:*List of Sunni books*Sahifah-References:...

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    Hammam ibn Munabbih
    Hammam ibn Munabbih was an Islamic scholar, from among the Tabi‘in and one of the narrators of hadith.-Works:*Sahifah Hammam ibn Munabbih was one of the 9 students of Abu Hurairah. Abu Hurairah used to narrate the hadith he heard from the Prophet to his 9 students. Out of all 9 students, only...

  • Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq
    Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq
    The Musannaf of Abd al-Razzaq is a very early book of Hadith that was collected by ‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani. It not only contains a huge number of hadith attributed directly to Muhammad, but also from the Sahaba and early Muslim scholars...

     of ‘Abd ar-Razzaq as-San‘ani
  • Musannaf ibn Jurayj
    Musannaf ibn Jurayj
    Musannaf of ibn Jurayj is a book by Islamic scholar ibn Jurayj, one of the earliest hadith collections....

     of Ibn Jurayj
    Ibn Jurayj
    Ibn Jurayj was an Islamic scholar.He is counted among the Taba' at-Tabi'in and narrated many Isra'iliyat.-Name:Abd al-Malik ibn Abd al-'Aziz ibn Jurayj -Biography:...

  • Al-Mu'jam al-Kabeer by al-Tabarani
    Al-Tabarani
    Abu al-Qasim Sulaiman ibn Ahmad ibn Al-Tabarani was born sometime in 260 AH and lived until 360 AH . He narrated numerous aḥadīth.-Students:...

  • Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain
    Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain
    Al-Mustadrak alaa al-Sahihain is a five volume hadith collection written by Hakim al-Nishaburi d. 405H.-History:He wrote it in the year 393 AH , when he was 72 years old. It contains 9045 hadith...

     of Hakim al-Nishaburi
    Hakim al-Nishaburi
    Abu Abd-Allah Muhammad ibn Abd-Allah al-Hakim al-Nishaburi , and also known as Ibn Al-Baiyi.) was a Sunni scholar and the leading traditionist of his age, frequently referred to as the "Imam of the Muhaddithin" or the "Muhaddith of Khorasan."-Biography:Al-Hakim, who hailed from Nishapur, had vast...

  • Tahdhib al-Athar
    Tahdhib al-Athar
    Tahdhīb al-Āthār is a collection of hadith by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Al-Kattani described it as one of al-Tabari's amazing works, although, he did not complete it.-Description:...

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    Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Sunni scholar and exegete of the Qur'an from Persia...

  • Sahih Ibn Khuzaimah
    Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah
    Mukhtasar al-Mukhtasar min al-Musnad al-Sahih, in short Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah, is a collection of hadith by Ibn Khuzaymah-Views:Among the Sahih collections after Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, it is regarded highly along with Sahih Ibn Hibbaan and Sahih Abi 'Awana.-Published edition:It has been...

     of Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Ishaq Ibn Khuzaimah
    Ibn Khuzaymah
    Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Khuzaymah was a prominent Muslim hadith and Shafi'i fiqh scholar best known for his hadith collection, Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah.- Biography :...

  • Sahih Ibn Hibbaan
    Sahih Ibn Hibbaan
    Sahih Ibn Hibban is a collection of hadith by Sunni scholar Ibn Hibban. It has the distinction of being one of small number of collections intended by the respective authors to contain only authentic hadith. The author of this Sahih is Abu Hatim Muhammad ibn Hibban ibn Ahmad al-Tamimi al-Busti,...

     of Abu Hatim Muhammad Ibn Hibbaan Ibn Ahmad At Tamimi Al Busti
  • Zujajat al-Masabih
    Zujajat al-Masabih
    Zujajat al-Masabih is the renowned five volume compendium of Hadith literature, authored by Muhaddith-e-Dakkan Abul Hasanat Syed Abdullah Shah Naqshbandi, popularly known as Hadrat Abdullah Shah Sahib, who was one of the most celebrated scholars of Islam from Hyderabad India...

     of Abdullah Shah Naqshbandi
  • At-Targhib wat-Tarhib by Zakiuddin Abdul-Azim Al-Mundhiri.

Commentaries of Hadith collections

  • Fath al-Bari
    Fath al-Bari
    Fath ul-Bari fi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari is the most valued Sunni commentary of Sahih al-Bukhari, written by Ibn Hajr Asqalani...

     of Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Al-Haafidh Shihabuddin Abu'l-Fadl Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, better known as Ibn Hajar due to the fame of his forefathers, al-Asqalani due to his family origin , was a medieval Shafiite Sunni scholar of Islam who represents the entire realm of the Sunni world in the field of Hadith...

  • Umdat al-Qari of Badr al-Din al-Ayni
    Badr al-Din al-Ayni
    Badr al-Din al-'Ayni born 762 AH , died 855 AH was a Sunni Islamic scholar of the Hanafi madh'hab. Al-'Ayni is an abbreviation for al-'Ayntābi, referring to his native city.-Biography:...

  • Al Minhaj Be Sharh Sahih Muslim of Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi
  • Nayl al-Awtar by Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani was a Yemeni scholar of Islam, jurisprudent, and reformer.-Name:His full name was Muhammad Ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani...

  • Mirqat Sharh Mishkat al-masabih by Ali al-Qari
    Ali al-Qari
    -Legacy:One of the great Hanafi masters of hadith and Imams of fiqh, Qur'anic commentary, language, history and tasawwuf, he authored several great commentaries such as al-Mirqat on Mishkat al-masabih in several volumes, a two-volume commentary on Qadi `Iyad's al-Shifa', and a two-volume commentary...


Tafsir
Tafsir
Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...

  • Tafsir al-Qurtubi
    Tafsir al-Qurtubi
    Tafsir al-Qurtubi is a famous Qur'an exegesis by the famous classical scholar Al-Qurtubi d.671H....

     by Al-Qurtubi
    Al-Qurtubi
    Imam Abu 'Abdullah Al-Qurtubi or Abu 'Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abu Bakr al-Ansari al-Qurtubi was a famous mufassir, muhaddith and faqih scholar from Cordoba of maliki origin. He is most famous for his commentary of the Quran, Tafsir al-Qurtubi....

  • Tafsir ibn Kathir
    Tafsir ibn Kathir
    Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim, popularly Tafsir ibn Kathir , is a classic Sunni Islam tafsir by Ibn Kathir....

     by Ismail ibn Kathir
    Ibn Kathir
    Ismail ibn Kathir was a Muslim muhaddith, Faqih, historian, and commentator.-Biography:His full name was Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din, Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir, Al-Qurashi, Al-Busrawi...

  • Tanwir al-Miqbas
    Tanwir al-Miqbas
    Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas is one of the most prominent Sunni Tafsir, attributed to Abd-Allah ibn Abbas and hence called "Tafsir Ibn Abbas". It was collected by Abu Tahir Muhammad ibn Yaqub al-Fayruz Aabadi...

     by Abd Allah ibn Abbas
    `Abd Allah ibn `Abbas
    Abd Allah ibn Abbas was a paternal cousin of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is revered by Muslims for his knowledge and was an expert in Tafsir , as well as an authority on the Islamic Sunnah.-Family:...

  • Tafsir al-Baghawi
    Tafsir al-Baghawi
    Tafsir al-Baghawi , also known as Ma'alim at-Tanzeel is a classical Sunni tafsir by Husain bin Masood al-Baghawi d. 1122, written as an abridgement of Tafsir al-Tha'labi . It currently exists in four volumes and eight volumes in its Lebanon edition and Cairo edition respectively....

     by Husain bin Masood al-Baghawi
    Al-Baghawi
    Abu Muhammad al-Husayn ibn Mas'ud ibn Muhammad al-Farra' al-Baghawi was a renowned Persian Muslim Mufassir, hadith scholar and a Shafi`i faqih best known for his major work Tafsir al-Baghawi. Al-Farra was in reference to trading with fur, and al-Baghawi was a reference to his hometown Bagh or...

  • Al-Tafsir Al-Kabir by Muhammad ibn Umar Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
    Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
    Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Umar ibn al-Husayn al-Taymi al-Bakri al-Tabaristani Fakhr al-Din al-Razi , most commonly known as Fakhruddin Razi was a well-known Persian Sunni Muslim theologian and philosopher....

  • Tafsir al-Jalalayn
    Tafsir al-Jalalayn
    Tafsīr al-Jalālayn is a classical Sunni tafsir of the Qur'an, composed first by Jalal ad-Din al-Mahalli in 1459 and then completed by his student Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti in 1505, thus its name. It is recognised as one of the most popular exegeses of the Qur'an today, due to its simple style and...

     by Al-Mahalli and Suyuti
  • Dur al-Manthur
    Dur al-Manthur
    Al-Durr Al-Manthur Fi Tafsir Bil-Ma'thur , The Scattered Pearls: Intertextual Exegesis, is an authoritatve Sunni tafsir , written by the prominent Imam Jalal al-Din al- Suyuti d. 911H...

     by Suyuti
  • Ruh al-Ma'ani
    Ruh al-Ma'ani
    Ruh al-Ma'ani fi Tafseer al-Quran al-'Azim wa al-Sab al-Mathan is a thirty-volume tafsir of the Qur'an, authored by Mahmud al-Alusi .-Controversy:The printed version of the book published by his Salafi son is said to contain "tamperings and suppressions"....

     by Mahmud al-Alusi
    Mahmud al-Alusi
    -Name:His full name was Imam Mahmud ibn Abd Allah al-Husayni al-Alusi al-Baghdadi.-External links:*...

  • Tafsir al-Tabari
    Tafsir al-Tabari
    Jāmi` al-bayān `an ta'wīl āy al-Qur'ān, popularly Tafsīr al-Ṭabarī is a classic Sunni tafsir by the Persian scholar Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari...

     by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Sunni scholar and exegete of the Qur'an from Persia...

  • Al-Kashshaf by al-Zamakhshari
    Al-Zamakhshari
    Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari. Known widely as al-Zamakhshari . Also called Jar Allah was a medieval Muslim scholar of Chorasmian-Iranian origin, who subscribed to the Muʿtazilite theological doctrine, who was born in Khwarezmia, but lived most of his life in Bukhara, Samarkand, and...

  • Fath al-Qadir by Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani was a Yemeni scholar of Islam, jurisprudent, and reformer.-Name:His full name was Muhammad Ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani...

  • Tafseer-e-Siddiqui
    Tafseer-e-Siddiqui
    The Tafseer-e-Siddiqui is a six-volume Sunni Islam Tafsir of the Qur'an by Bahr-Ul-Uloom Hazrat Moulana Maulvi Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat, who was a renowned Islamic theologian, Qur'anic exegete, poet, and a celebrated sufi of Southern India...

     by Bahr-ul-Uloom Muhammad Abdul Qadeer Siddiqi Qadri Hasrat
    Hasrat
    Hasrat is a popular pen name for Urdu poets in India and Pakistan. It is an Urdu word meaning "unfulfilled wish", which is derived from the Arabic word "Hasrah". One reason this word is favored by Urdu poets is that it has melancholy undertones. Notable Urdu poets that use this pen name include:...

  • Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran
    Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran
    Al-Mufradat fi Gharib al-Quran is a dictionary by Islamic scholar Al-Raghib al-Isfahani....

     by al-Raghib al-Isfahani
  • Fi Zilal al-Qur'an
    Fi zilal al-Qur'an
    In the Shade of the Qur'an or Fi Zilal al-Qur'an[p][n] is a highly influential commentary of the Qur'an, written during 1951-1965 by Sayyid Qutb[a] , a leader within the Muslim Brotherhood. Most of the original 30 volumes were written while in prison following an attempted assassination of...

     by Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamist theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s....

  • Tafsir Ziya’ al-Qur'an by Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari
    Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari
    Justice Diya al-'Ummah Hadhrat Shaykh Mawlana Mufti Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari , Sitara-e-Imtiaz, was an eminent Sheykh of tariqa Chistiyya and an Islamic scholar from Pakistan; a towering figure, he also served as a Judge at the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan and Shariat Appellate Bench...

  • The Meaning of the Qur'an by Abul Ala Maududi
    Abul Ala Maududi
    Syed Abul A'ala Maududi , also known as Molana or Shaikh Syed Abul A'ala Mawdudi, was a Sunni Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a major 20th century Islamist thinker. He was also a prominent political figure in Pakistan and was the first...

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  • The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary
    The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary
    The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary is an English translation of the Qur'an by Indian Muslim civil servant Abdullah Yusuf Ali . It was undertaken after Yusuf Ali had retired from the Civil Service and settled in the United Kingdom in the 1920s...

     by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
    Abdullah Yusuf Ali
    Hafiz Abdullah Yusuf Ali, CBE, FRSL was an Indian Islamic scholar who translated the Qur'an into English. His translation of the Qur'an is one of the most widely-known and used in the English-speaking world....

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  • Tafsir-e-Usmani
    Tafsir-e-Usmani
    Tafsir-e-Usmani is a Quranic tafsir, authored by modern day Islamic scholar Shabbir Ahmad Usmani ....

     by Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
    Shabbir Ahmad Usmani
    Shabbir Ahmad Usmani was an Islamic scholar who supported the creation of an Islamic system of governance in Pakistan after its creation in 1947. He was a theologian, writer, orator, politician, and expert in tafsir and hadith...

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History books

  • Raud al-Unuf
    Raud al-Unuf
    Raud al-Unuf is a book by the Islamic scholar Al-Suhayli.. It is a commentary on Ibn Hisham's As-Siratu Nabawiyyah....

     by Al Suhayli, a commentary of Ibn Hisham
    Ibn Hisham
    Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham , or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and al-Tabari. Ibn Hisham grew up in Basra, Iraq, but moved afterwards to Egypt, where he gained a name...

    's As-Sirah An-Nabawiyyah
  • Muqaddimah
    Muqaddimah
    The Muqaddimah , also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or the Prolegomena , is a book written by the Maghrebian Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history...

     by Ibn Khaldun
    Ibn Khaldun
    Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun was an Arab Tunisian historiographer and historian who is often viewed as one of the forerunners of modern historiography, sociology and economics...

  • Al-maghazi by Al-Waqidi
    Al-Waqidi
    Abu `Abdullah Muhammad Ibn ‘Omar Ibn Waqid al-Aslami , commonly referred to as al-Waqidi , was an early Muslim historian.He was born and educated in Medina...

  • Genealogies of the Nobles
    Genealogies of the Nobles (book)
    Genealogies of the Nobles is a history book related to Islam, authored by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri .-Overview:This was the second great historical work of al-Baladhuri, of which he is said to have written forty parts when he died...

     (Ansab al-Ashraf) by Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
    Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
    Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri Arabic was a 9th century Persian historian. One of the eminent middle-eastern historians of his age , he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He traveled in Syria and Iraq, compiling information for his...

  • The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions by Ibn Abd-al-Barr
  • Tarikh al-Umam wa al-Muluk by Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari
    Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari was a prominent and influential Sunni scholar and exegete of the Qur'an from Persia...

  • Al-Kamil fi al-Tarikh by Ibn al-Athir
  • al-Bidayah wa al-Nihayah by Ibn Kathir
    Ibn Kathir
    Ismail ibn Kathir was a Muslim muhaddith, Faqih, historian, and commentator.-Biography:His full name was Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din, Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir, Al-Qurashi, Al-Busrawi...

  • Tarikh al-Khulafa by Suyuti
  • The Khalifas who took the right way (book)
    The Khalifas who took the right way (book)
    The History of the Khalifahs who took the right way is a partial translation of Tarikh al-Khulafa – History of the Caliphs a classical work that presents authentic hadith in relation to the Caliphate and the early "Rightly Guided Caliphs" and biographies of all of the subsequent caliphs of Islam up...

     by Suyuti
  • History of Baghdad by Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
    Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
    Abu Bakr Ahmad ibn `Ali ibn Thabit ibn Ahmad ibn Mahdi al-Shafi`i, commonly known as al-Khatib al-Baghdadi or the lecturer from Baghdad , was a Sunni Muslim scholar and historian.-Early life:...

  • Tarikh Yaqubi by Ya'qubi
    Ya'qubi
    Ahmad ibn Abu Ya'qub ibn Ja'far ibn Wahb Ibn Wadih al-Ya'qubi , known as Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, or Ya'qubi, was a Berber Muslim geographer.-Biography:He was a great-grandson of Wadih, the freedman of the caliph Mansur...

  • Al-Farooq by Shibli Nomani
    Shibli Nomani
    Allamah Shibli Nomani was a respected scholar of Islam from Indian subcontinent during British Raj. He was born at Bindwal in Azamgarh district of present-day Uttar Pradesh. He is known for the founding the Shibli National College in 1883 and the Darul Mussanifin in Azamgarh...

  • Ma'alim fi al-Tariq by Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamist theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s....

  • Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
    Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa
    Al-Imama wa al-Siyasa is an Arabic work falsely attributed to the Sunni Islamic scholar Ibn Qutaybah about the history of Islam.This book is traditionally known as Ta’rikh al-Khulafa’ .-Editions:*ed. Zini Taha , 21....

     by Ibn Qutaybah
    Ibn Qutaybah
    Ibn Qutaybah was a renowned Islamic scholar of Persian origin.-Biography:His full name is Abu Muhammad ‘Abdullaah bin Muslim Ibn Qutaybah Ad-Dinawaree. He was born in Kufa in what is now modern day Iraq. He was of Iranian descent; his father was from Merv...

  • Al-Fitna Al-Kubra
    Al-Fitna Al-Kubra
    Al Fitna Al Kubra is a book by Islamic scholar Taha Husain regarding early Muslim history, though disagreed with by some of Sunni scholars....

     by Taha Hussein
  • Sirat al-Halbiya
    Sirat al-Halbiya
    Sirat al-Halbiya is a book about the history of Islam in six volumes by Islamic scholar Qazi Halb Burhan-ud-din ....

     by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
    Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
    Burhan-ud-din al-Marghinani was an Islamic scholar, of the Hanafi school. He was born at Marghian in the vicinity of Farghana in 530/1135 He died in 593/1197. -Name:...

  • Fath al-Buldan by Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
    Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri
    Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri Arabic was a 9th century Persian historian. One of the eminent middle-eastern historians of his age , he spent most of his life in Baghdad and enjoyed great influence at the court of the caliph al-Mutawakkil. He traveled in Syria and Iraq, compiling information for his...

  • Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya
    Al-Bidaya wa'l-Nihaya
    al-Bidayah wa'an-Nihayah or Tarikh ibn Kathir is a classic work by the Sunni scholar Ibn Kathir.-Overview:...

     by Ibn Kathir
    Ibn Kathir
    Ismail ibn Kathir was a Muslim muhaddith, Faqih, historian, and commentator.-Biography:His full name was Abu Al-Fida, 'Imad Ad-Din, Isma'il bin 'Umar bin Kathir, Al-Qurashi, Al-Busrawi...

    .

Biographical evaluation

  • Tahdhib al-Tahdhib by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Al-Haafidh Shihabuddin Abu'l-Fadl Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, better known as Ibn Hajar due to the fame of his forefathers, al-Asqalani due to his family origin , was a medieval Shafiite Sunni scholar of Islam who represents the entire realm of the Sunni world in the field of Hadith...

  • The Great History
    The Great History
    The Great History is a book by ninth-century Islamic scholar Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari in the field of biographical evaluation.-Overview:...

     by Muhammad al-Bukhari
    Muhammad al-Bukhari
    Muhammad Ibn Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn al-Mughirah Ibn Bardizbah al-Bukhari , popularly known as Bukhari or Imam Bukhari, , was a Sunni Islamic scholar of Persia...

  • Kitab Ma'rifat al-Sahaba (The Book of Knowledge about the Companions) by Ali ibn al-Madini
    Ali ibn al-Madini
    Abū al-Ḥasan ʻAlī ibn ʻAbdillāh ibn Jaʻfar al-Madīnī was a ninth century Sunni Islamic scholar who was influential in the science of hadith.-Biography:...

  • The Comprehensive Compilation of the Names of the Prophet's Companions by Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr
    Yusuf ibn abd al-Barr
    Yusuf ibn Abdallah ibn Mohammed ibn Abd al-Barr, Abu Umar al-Namari al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi al-Maliki, commonly known as Ibn Abd-al-Barr was a famous Sunni Maliki Islamic Scholar...

  • Finding the Truth in Judging the Companions by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
    Al-Haafidh Shihabuddin Abu'l-Fadl Ahmad ibn Ali ibn Muhammad, better known as Ibn Hajar due to the fame of his forefathers, al-Asqalani due to his family origin , was a medieval Shafiite Sunni scholar of Islam who represents the entire realm of the Sunni world in the field of Hadith...

  • The Lions of the Forest and the Knowledge About the Companions by Ali ibn al-Athir
    Ali ibn al-Athir
    Abu al-Hassan Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad, better known as Ali 'Izz al-Din Ibn al-Athir al-Jazari was a Kurdish Muslim historian from the Ibn Athir family...

  • The Book of The Major Classes by Ibn Sa'd al-Baghdadi
  • History of Damascus by Ibn Asaker
  • Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal
    Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal
    Al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal is a collection of biographies of hadith narrators within the Islamic discipline of biographical evaluation by the 12th-century Islamic scholar Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi.-Overview:...

     by Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
    Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi
    Abd al-Ghani al-Maqdisi is a classical Sunni Islamic scholar and a prominent Hadith master.-Works:He is the author of many famous works, including :*al-Kamal fi Asma' al-Rijal *Umdat al-Ahkam -References:...

  • Tadhkirat al-huffaz by al-Dhahabi
    Al-Dhahabi
    Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn `Uthman ibn Qaymaz ibn `Abd Allah, Shams al-Din Abu `Abd Allah al-Turkmani al-Diyarbakri al-Fariqi al-Dimashqi al-Dhahabi al-Shafi`i , known as Al-Dhahabi , a Shafi'i Muhaddith and historian of Islam.-Biography:...


Shi'a

  • Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah
    Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah
    Minhaj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah is a four/ or eight/ or nine volumes work by Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiya.It is a critique of Shia Islam.-References:...

     by Ibn Taymiya
    Ibn Taymiya
    Taqi ad-Din Ahmad ibn Taymiyyah , full name: Taqī ad-Dīn Abu 'l-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥalīm ibn ʿAbd as-Salām Ibn Taymiya al-Ḥarrānī , was an Islamic scholar , theologian and logician born in Harran, located in what is now Turkey, close to the Syrian border. He lived during the troubled times of...

  • Taufa Ithna Ashari
    Taufa Ithna Ashari
    Taufa Ithna Ashari is a highly controversial book by Sunni Islamic scholar Shah Abdul Aziz .A Sunni site, NazariaPak, states :-See also:*List of Sunni booksThis book `´Tauhfa Ithna Ashari `can be download through torrents...

     by Shah Abdul Aziz
    Shah Abdul Aziz
    Al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi was one of the great Sunni Islamic scholar scholars of Hadith in India.-Biography:Shah Abdul Aziz was the eldest son of Shah Waliullah was only 17 years old when Shah Waliullah died...

  • Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah
    Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah
    Al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah is an Islamic book written by the Muslim scholar Ibn Hajar Al-Haytami, it covers many areas such as how to send greetings upon the Prophet Muhammad and the role of Shia'ism in Islam.-Shi'te Views:...

     by Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
    Ibn Hajar al-Haytami
    Ibn Hajar al-Haytami al-Makki was a Sunni Muslim Shafi`i scholar, born in 909 AH .Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Hajar al-Haytami was a student of Zakariyya al-Ansari. He represents the foremost resource for legal opinion in the entire late Shafi`i school...

  • Mawaddat al-Qurba by Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
    Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani
    Mir Syed Ali bin Shahab-ud-Din Hamadani was a Persian Sūfī of the Kubrāwī order, a poet and a prominent Muslim scholar. He was born on Monday, 12th Rajab 714 AH in Hamadan and died in 786 AH in Kunar and was buried in Khatlan...

     (alleged)
  • Yanabi al-Muwadda
    Yanabi al-Muwadda
    Yanabi al-Muwadda is a Hadith collection purportedly authored by Sulayman al-Qunduzi in Baghdad in 1395 hijri. It quotes from Mawaddat al-Qurba....

     by Sulayman al-Qunduzi
    Sulayman al-Qunduzi
    Sulaiman ibn Khawajah Killan Ibrahim ibn Baba Khawajah al-Balkhi al-Qunduzi is the alleged author of Yanabi al-Muwadda which was said to have been written in Baghdad in 1395 and died 1294AH/1877...

     (alleged)

Ikhtilaf
Ikhtilaf
Ikhtilaf is an Islamic scholarly religious disagreement, and is hence the opposite of ijma.Islam teaches that when there is a scholarly disagreement on a certain issue, it is impermissible to condemn a person who follows a position that is different from one's own...

  • Maulana, Andhe ki laathi
    Maulana, Andhe ki laathi
    Maulana, Ande ki laathi is a book written in Urdu, consisting of three written debates between Sunni and Wahabi scholars on the matter of shirk and bid'ah . The book aims to clear popular misunderstandings about Sunni Barelwis...

  • Habib al-Siyar
    Habib al-Siyar
    Ḥabīb as-siyar is a historical work by Islamic scholar Ghiyāś ad-Dīn Moḥammad Khwāndamīr....

     by Muhammad Khwandamir
    Muhammad Khwandamir
    Ghiyāś ad-Dīn Moḥammad Khwāndamīr, Khvandamir, or Khondamir or Hondemir was a Persian Islamic scholar born in Herat, in 880 AH or 1475 CE, a grandson and successor to noted historian Mirkhond.-Biography:...

  • Al Insaf fi Bayaanul Asbabul Ikhtilaf by Shah Waliullah
    Shah Waliullah
    Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi was an Islamic scholar and reformer. He was born during the reign of Aurangzeb. He worked for the revival of Muslim rule and intellectual learning in South Asia, during a time of waning Muslim power...

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Hanafi
Hanafi
The Hanafi school is one of the four Madhhab in jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. The Hanafi madhhab is named after the Persian scholar Abu Hanifa an-Nu‘man ibn Thābit , a Tabi‘i whose legal views were preserved primarily by his two most important disciples, Abu Yusuf and Muhammad al-Shaybani...

  • Bahar-e-Shariat
    Bahar-e-Shariat
    Bahar-e-Shariat is an encyclopedia of Islamic fiqh , according to the Hanafi school, spreading over 20 volumes. Seventeen of its volumes were written by Mufti Amjad Ali Aazmi, a disciple of Imam Ahmed Raza Khan. The rest of three books were compiled by his disciples after his death. The book is...

     by Mufti Amjad Ali Aazmi.
  • Fatawa Rashidiya by Rashid Ahmad Gangohi.
  • Fatawa Razawiyya by Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi.
  • Fatawa Mustafwiyah by Mustafa Raza Khan
    Mustafa Raza Khan
    Mustafa Raza Khan, commonly known among the Muslims of South Asia as Mufti e Azam e Hind, was born in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1892. His father, Ahmed Raza Khan was the founder of the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam in South Asia.. His grandfather, Moulana Naqi Ali Khan Mustafa Raza Khan,...

    .
  • Hidayah
    Hidayah
    Hidāyah is an Arabic word meaning 'guidance' . It can also refer to guidance from the Qur'an and according to the Sunnah.Al-Hidāyah is the title of a famous Hanafi juridical work by Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī which is considered widely authoritative as a guide to fiqh amongst...

     by Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
    Burhan al-Din al-Marghinani
    Burhan-ud-din al-Marghinani was an Islamic scholar, of the Hanafi school. He was born at Marghian in the vicinity of Farghana in 530/1135 He died in 593/1197. -Name:...

    .
  • Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar
    Radd al-Muhtar ala al-Dur al-Mukhtar
    Radd al-Mukhtar ala ad-Dur al-Mukhtar is a book on Islamic Jurisprudence [Fiqh] by 18th century Islamic Scholar, Allamah Sayyid Muhammad Ameen ibn `Aabideen ash-Shaami. It means "The Answer to the Baffled" over "The Exquisite Pearl"....

     by Ibn Abidin
    Ibn Abidin
    Muhammad Amin ibn Abidin lived in the city of Damascus in Syria during the Ottoman era. He was the authority of the fiqh of the Hanafi madhhab . He was a state employee with the title of Amin al-fatwa. This meant that he was the mufti that people would go to when they had legal questions in...

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Shafi'i
Shafi'i
The Shafi'i madhhab is one of the schools of fiqh, or religious law, within the Sunni branch of Islam. The Shafi'i school of fiqh is named after Imām ash-Shafi'i.-Principles:...

  • Al-Maqasid
    Al-Maqasid
    Al-Maqasid is a guide to Islam written by Imam Shatibi in his book "Al-mowafaq'at". It covers purposes of Islamic faith, Zakat , pilgrimage or even of the Qur'an's and Sunnah's text, as well as frequently asked questions and can be used as a primer for students of Islam. Newer editions contain...

     by Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi
  • Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik
    Umdat al-Salik wa Uddat al-Nasik
    Umdat as-Salik wa 'Uddat an-Nasik is a classical manual of fiqh for the Shafi'i school of Islamic jurisprudence...

     by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri

Hanbali
Hanbali
The Hanbali school is one the schools of Fiqh or religious law within Sunni Islam. The jurisprudence school traces back to Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal but was institutionalized by his students. Hanbali jurisprudence is considered very strict and conservative, especially regarding questions of dogma...

  • Al-Kaafi fi fiqh al-Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal
    Al-Kaafi
    Al-Kaafi fi fiqh al-Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal is a book of Hanbali Fiqh written by Imaam Ibn Qudamah.-Description:Al-Kaafi is one of the marvels of Islamic literature. It is from the series of literally accomplishments offered by the author, al-Imaam Ibn Qudamah al-Maqdisi...

     by Ibn Qudamah
    Ibn Qudamah
    Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi was a noted Islamic scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of many treatises of Hanbali jurisprudence and doctrine, including al-Mughni as well as Tahrim an-Nazar Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (Arabic...

    .
  • Al Mughni: Sharh Al Kabir by Ibn Qudamah
    Ibn Qudamah
    Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi was a noted Islamic scholar of the Hanbali madhhab, author of many treatises of Hanbali jurisprudence and doctrine, including al-Mughni as well as Tahrim an-Nazar Imam Mawaffaq ad-Din Abdullah Ibn Ahmad Ibn Qudama al-Maqdisi (Arabic...

    .

General

  • Al-Muhalla
    Al-Muhalla
    Al-Muhalla is a book by Islamic scholar , The only book of his Legal rulings existent to date.-Overview:...

     by Ibn Hazm
    Ibn Hazm
    Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ) was an Andalusian philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain...

  • The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam
    The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam
    The Lawful and the Prohibited in Islam is a book by Islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi .Publisher's foreword:Sheikh Saleh Al-Fawzan has written a refutation to this book.-External links:*...

     by Yusuf al-Qaradawi
    Yusuf al-Qaradawi
    Yusuf al-Qaradawi is a controversial Egyptian Islamic theologian. He is best known for his programme, ash-Shariah wal-Hayat , broadcast on Al Jazeera, which has an estimated audience of 60 million worldwide...

  • Nayl al-Awtar by Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani
    Muhammad ash-Shawkani was a Yemeni scholar of Islam, jurisprudent, and reformer.-Name:His full name was Muhammad Ibn Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Shawkani...

  • Maratab Al Ijmaa by Ibn Hazm
    Ibn Hazm
    Abū Muḥammad ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn Saʿīd ibn Ḥazm ) was an Andalusian philosopher, litterateur, psychologist, historian, jurist and theologian born in Córdoba, present-day Spain...

     focussing on Ijma
    Ijma
    Ijmāʿ is an Arabic term referring to the consensus of the Muslim community. Various schools of thought within Islamic jurisprudence may define this consensus as that of the first generation of Muslims only; the consensus of the first three generations of Muslims; the consensus of the jurists...

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  • Al Mustasfa min Ilm Al-Usool by Ghazali

General

  • Kashf Al-Mahjub by Ali Hujwiri.
  • Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism: Al-risala Al-qushayriyya Fi 'ilm Al-tasawwuf by Abd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayri (ISBN 9781859641866)
  • Kimiya-yi sa'ādat
    Kimiya-yi sa'adat
    Kimiya-yi Sa'ādat was written by Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ghazālī, a Persian theologian, philosopher, and prolific Sunni author regarded as one of the greatest systematic Persian thinkers of Islam. The Kimiya-yi Sa'ādat was written towards the end of his life shortly before 499/1105...

     by Ghazali.
  • Mukashafatul Quloob by Ghazali. English title - Exposition of Hearts.

Dhikr
Dhikr
Dhikr , plural ; ), is an Islamic devotional act, typically involving the repetition of the Names of God, supplications or formulas taken from hadith texts and verses of the Qur'an. Dhikr is usually done individually, but in some Sufi orders it is instituted as a ceremonial activity...

  • al-Wabil al-Sayyib
    Al-Wabil al-Sayyib
    al-Waabil as-Sayyib min al-Kalim at-Tayyib is a book by Islamic scholar Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya .-Description:The book was written while a student of Ibn Taymiyyah as an explanation of the latter's book Kalim at-Tayyib...

     by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya.
  • Dala'il al-Khayrat
    Dala'il al-Khayrat
    Dala'il al-Khayrat or Dalaail u'l Khayraat Wa Shawaariq u'l Anwaar Fee Zikri's Salaat Alan Nabiyyi'l Mukhtaar is a famous collection of prayers for Islamic prophet Muhammad, which was written by the Moroccan Sunni Sufi and Islamic Scholar Muhammad al-Jazuli...

     by Muhammad al-Jazuli
    Muhammad al-Jazuli
    Sidi Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali , often known as "Imam al-Jazuli", was a Moroccan Sufi leader of the Berber tribe of the Jazulah. He is especially famous for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book...


Seerah
Prophetic biography
The sīrat rasūl allāh or al-sīra al-nabawiyya or just al-sīra, is the Arabic term used for the various traditional Muslim biographies of Muhammad from which, in addition to the Qur'an and Hadith, most historical information about his life and the early period of Islam is derived.-Etymology:In the...

See also List of biographies of Muhammad.
  • Zad al-Ma'ad
    Zad al-Ma'ad
    Zad al-Ma'ad is a book, translated as Provisions of the Hereafter, written by Islamic scholar Ibn al-Qayyim.This is one of the best books written on the subject of seerat of prophet Mohammed....

     by Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
  • Kitab al-Miraj by Abu'l-Qasim al-Nisaburi (alleged)
  • Ar-Raheeq Al-Makhtum by Safi-ur-Rehman Mubarakpuri
  • Al Khasayas Al kubra by Suyuti
  • Haza Al-Habib Muhammad Rasool Allah, Ya Muhab by Abu Bakr Jabir Al-Jazairi. Available in English
    English language
    English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

    , French
    French language
    French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

     translation.

General

  • Kitab Al-Irshad Ila Qawati Al-Adilla Fi Usul Ati Tiqad
    Kitab Al-Irshad Ila Qawati Al-Adilla Fi Usul Ati Tiqad
    Kitab Al-Irshad Ila Qawati Al-Adilla Fi Usul Ati Tiqad, commonly known simply as Al-Irshad , is a major classic of Islamic theology. Its author, Al-Juwayni, was the leading Ash'ari theologian of his time; he was more famous for his many important treatises on the principles of law, and for having...

     by Al-Juwayni
    Al-Juwayni
    Imam al-Haramayn Dhia' ul-Din Abd al-Malik ibn Yusuf al-Juwayni al-Shafi'i was a Sunni Shafi'i hadith and Kalam scholar...

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  • The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi by Hamza Yusuf
    Hamza Yusuf
    Hamza Yusuf Hanson is an Islamic scholar of the Sunni tradition, and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, United States. He is an American convert to Islam, and is one of the signatories of A Common Word Between Us and You, an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders,...

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Tawhid
Tawhid
Tawhid is the concept of monotheism in Islam. It is the religion's most fundamental concept and holds God is one and unique ....

  • Kitab Al tawheed by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
  • Sharh Aqeedat-il-Wasitiyah by Ibn Taymiyyah

Political Islam
Islamism
Islamism also , lit., "Political Islam" is set of ideologies holding that Islam is not only a religion but also a political system. Islamism is a controversial term, and definitions of it sometimes vary...

  • Ma'alim fi al-Tariq by Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb
    Sayyid Qutb was an Egyptian author, educator, Islamist theorist, poet, and the leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in the 1950s and '60s....

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  • To Be a European Muslim by Tariq Ramadan
    Tariq Ramadan
    Tariq Ramadan is a Swiss academic, poet and writer. He is also a Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies in the Faculty of Oriental Studies at Oxford University...

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  • Islamic Way of Life by Abul Ala Maududi
    Abul Ala Maududi
    Syed Abul A'ala Maududi , also known as Molana or Shaikh Syed Abul A'ala Mawdudi, was a Sunni Pakistani journalist, theologian, Muslim revivalist leader and political philosopher, and a major 20th century Islamist thinker. He was also a prominent political figure in Pakistan and was the first...

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  • Fatwa on Terrorism
    Fatwa on Terrorism
    Fatwa on Terrorism is a 600-page , 512-page Islamic decree by scholar Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri which demonstrates from the Quran and Sunnah that terrorism and suicide bombings are so unjust that their evil is un-Islamic. The English edition was published in the UK by Minhaj-ul-Quran Publications....

     by Tahir-ul-Qadri
    Tahir-ul-Qadri
    Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri is a Pakistani Sufi scholar and former professor of international constitutional law at the University of the Punjab....

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  • Hujjat al-Balagha
    Hujjat al-Balagha
    Apart from a translation the Quran, Shah Waliullah also wrote authentic books on Hadith, the principles of Hadith, Tafseer and on mystical subjects. But the most popular book of “Hujjat al-Balagha”...

     by Shah Waliullah
    Shah Waliullah
    Shah Waliullah Muhaddith Dehlvi was an Islamic scholar and reformer. He was born during the reign of Aurangzeb. He worked for the revival of Muslim rule and intellectual learning in South Asia, during a time of waning Muslim power...


Miscellaneous books

  • Chach Nama
    Chach Nama
    Chach Nama also known as the Fateh nama Sindh ,and also known as Tarekh-e-Hind wa Sindh Arabic is a book about the history of Sindh, chronicling the Chacha Dynasty's period, following the demise of the Rai Dynasty and the ascent of Chach of Alor to the throne, down to the Arab conquest by...

     by Kazí Ismail
  • Sharh al-Mawahib al-Ladunniyyah
    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 ....

     by Muhammad al-Zurqani
    Muhammad al-Zurqani
    Muhammad al-Zurqani was an Sunni Maliki Islamic scholar.-Name:His full name was Imam Abu-Abd-Allah "Ibn Fujlah" Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Bāqī al-Azhari al-Zurqānī al-Maliki.-Biography:...

  • Sirush Shahadhathayn
    Sirush Shahadhathayn
    Sirush Shahadhathayn is a book by Sunni Islamic scholar Shah Abdul Aziz. The book was written in Persian and was later published by his son Shah Salamathullah Dehlavi as 'Tahreer Shahadhathayn". The book dealt with the Battle of Karbala and its aftermath ....

     Shah Abdul Aziz
    Shah Abdul Aziz
    Al Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dehlavi was one of the great Sunni Islamic scholar scholars of Hadith in India.-Biography:Shah Abdul Aziz was the eldest son of Shah Waliullah was only 17 years old when Shah Waliullah died...

  • Mu'jam Al-Buldan
    Mu'jam Al-Buldan
    Mu'jam al-buldan is a book by Yaqut al-Hamawi, a Muslim scholar who is famous for his encyclopedic books.Al-Hamawi started the book in 1224 and finished in 1228, one year before he died....

     by Yaqut al-Hamawi
    Yaqut al-Hamawi
    Yāqūt ibn-'Abdullah al-Rūmī al-Hamawī) was an Islamic biographer and geographer renowned for his encyclopedic writings on the Muslim world. "al-Rumi" refers to his Greek descent; "al-Hamawi" means that he is from Hama, Syria, and ibn-Abdullah is a reference to his father's name, Abdullah...

  • Wafa al-Wafa
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