Reference appendix

Dates

Scholars and authorities arranged by year of demise.

269 scholars and authorities

Scholar	Demise (AH)	Demise (CE)
ʿAntara b. Shaddād	about 22 before Hijrah	600
Umayya b. Abī al-Ṣalt	5	626
Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq	13	634
ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb	23	644
Ibn Masʿūd	32	653
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān	35	656
ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib	40	661
Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī	44	665
Fayrūz al-Daylamī	53	673
Jarīr b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Bajalī	51 or 54	671 or 674
Abū Hurayrah	59	679
Nāfiʿ b. al-Azraq	65	685
Ibn ʿAbbās	68	687–688
Qays b. al-Mulawwaḥ (Majnūn Laylā)	Traditionally 68	Traditionally 688
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī, the early reciter	about 74	693
ʿAbdallāh b. ʿUmar	74	692–694
Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī	about 80	700
ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān	84	703
Anas b. Mālik	93	712
ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa	93	712
Saʿīd b. al-Musayyab	94	712–713
Saʿīd b. Jubayr	45–95	665–714
Ibrāhīm al-Nakhaʿī	96	714–715
Mujāhid b. Jabr	21–103	642–721
Yaḥyā b. Waththāb	103	721–722
al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Muzāḥim	106	720–725
Ṭāwūs b. Kaysān	106	724–725
Al-Farazdaq	110	728
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī	21–110	642–728
Muḥammad b. Sīrīn	33–110	653–729
Ṭalḥa b. Muṣarrif	112	730–731
ʿAṭāʾ b. Abī Rabāḥ	114	732–733
Qatāda b. Diʿāma al-Sadūsī	60–117	680–735
Ibn ʿĀmir	21–118	641–736
Al-ʿArjī	about 120	738
Ibn Kathīr al-Makkī	122	740
Ibn Muḥayṣin	about 123	741
Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī	124	742
Ismāʿīl al-Suddī al-Kabīr	127
ʿĀṣim b. Abī al-Najūd	128	745–746
Ibn Abī Najīḥ	131	748–749
ʿAbd Allāh b. Ṭāwūs	132	749–750
Rabīʿa b. Abī ʿAbd al-Raḥmān	136	753–754
Zayd b. Aslam	136	753–754
Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Anṣārī	143	760
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭalḥa	143	760–761
Muḥammad b. al-Sāʾib al-Kalbī	146	763
Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq	80–148	699–765
al-Aʿmash	148	765
Ibn Abī Laylā	148	765–766
Shibl b. ʿAbbād	about 148	765–766
Yaḥyā b. Abī ʿAmr al-Saybānī	148	765–766
ʿĪsā ibn ʿUmar al-Thaqafī	149	766
Abū Ḥanīfah	80–150	699–767
Muqātil ibn Sulaymān	150	767
Muqātil b. Ḥayyān	c. 150	c. 767
Ibn Jurayj	150	767
Ibrāhīm b. Abī ʿAbla	c. 152	c. 769
Abū ʿAmr al-Baṣrī	70–154	689–770
Ḥamzah al-Zayyāt	156	773
Al-Awzāʿī	88–157	707–774
Sufyān al-Thawrī	97–161	716–778
Nāfiʿ al-Madanī	169	785
Imam Mālik ibn Anas	179	795–796
Sībawayh	180	796
Abū Yūsuf	113–182	731–798
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Zayd ibn Aslam	182	798–799
Ibn Kinānah	186	801–803
Al-Kisāʾī	189	805
Ibn al-Qāsim	191	806–807
Wakīʿ b. al-Jarrāḥ	197	812
Warsh	110–197	728–812
ʿAbd Allāh b. Wahb	125–197	743–813
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Mahdī	198	814
Abū Ḥaywa Shurayḥ b. Yazīd	203	818
Al-Ḥasan b. Ziyād al-Luʾluʾī	204	819
Imam al-Shāfiʿī	204	820
Ḥajjāj b. Muḥammad al-Maṣṣīṣī	206	821
Al-Musayyabī	206	821–822
Al-Farrāʾ	207	822–823
ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Ṣanʿānī	126–211	744–827
ʿAbd Allāh b. Yazīd al-Muqriʾ	212 or 213	827–829
Al-Akhfash al-Awsaṭ	215	830–831
al-Aṣmaʿī	216	831
Abū Ḥudhayfa Mūsā b. Masʿūd	220	835
Khallād	220	835
Qālūn	220	835
Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim b. Sallām	157–224	774–838
Khalaf b. Hishām al-Bazzār (Khalaf al-ʿĀshir)	229	844
Abū Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah	235	849–850
Bishr b. al-Walīd	238	853
Abū Thawr	170–240	786–854
Imam Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal	164–241	780–855
Abū ʿUthmān al-Māzinī	249	863
Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī	255	869
Imām al-Bukhārī	194–256	810–870
Abū Saʿīd al-Ashajj	257	870–871
Aḥmad b. Sinān al-Qaṭṭān	259	873
Imam Muslim	204–261	820–875
Yūnus b. ʿAbd al-Aʿlā	264	877
Ibn Mājah	209–273	824–887
Abū Dāwūd	202–275	817–889
Ibn Qutaybah	213–276	828–889
Al-Tirmidhī	210–279	825–892
Sahl al-Tustarī	200–283	815–896
al-Mubarrad	286	899
Al-Junayd	297	910
Al-Nasāʾī	303	915–916
Al-Ṭabarī	224–310	839–923
Al-Zajjāj	241–311	855–923
Ibn Khuzaymah	223–311	838–924
Ibn al-Mundhir	242–319	856–931
Al-Ṭaḥāwī	239–321	853–933
Abū Muslim al-Iṣfahānī	322	934
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ashʿarī	324	935–936
Ibn Mujāhid		936
Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī	240–327	854–938
Abū Jaʿfar al-Naḥḥās	338	949
Abū Isḥāq al-Marwazī	340	951
Bakr b. al-ʿAlāʾ al-Qushayrī	344	955
Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh	266–351	880–962
Ibn Ḥibbān	354	965
Abū Bakr al-Jaṣṣāṣ	305–370	917–980
Ibn Khālawayh	370	980
Al-Azharī	370	980–981
Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī	373	983
Abū ʿAlī al-Fārisī	288–377	900–987
Ibn Bābawayh (al-Shaykh al-Ṣadūq)	381	991
Al-Dāraquṭnī	306–385	919–995
Ibn Jinnī	392	1002
Ibn Fāris	395	1005
Al-Bāqillānī	338–403	950–1013
Al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī	321–405	933–1014
Abū al-Faḍl al-Khuzāʿī	332–408
Hibat Allāh b. Salāmah	410	1019
al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār	415	1025
Abū Isḥāq al-Thaʿlabī	427	1035–1036
Makkī ibn Abī Ṭālib	355–437	966–1045
Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī	371–444	981–1053
Al-Māwardī	364–450	974–1058
Ibn Ḥazm	384–456	994–1064
Al-Bayhaqī	384–458	994–1066
Ibn Sīda	458	1066
Qāḍī Abū Yaʿlā	380–458	990–1066
Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayrī	376–465	986–1072
Al-Wāḥidī	468	1076
Al-Sarakhsī	483	1090
Abū al-Muẓaffar al-Samʿānī	426–489	1035–1096
Al-Rūyānī	415–502	1025–1108
Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī	502	1108–1109
Al-Kiyā al-Harrāsī	450–504	1058–1110
Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī	450–505	1058–1111
Abū Naṣr al-Qushayrī	514	1120
Al-Baghawī	516	1122
Abū Ḥafṣ al-Nasafī	461–537	1068–1142
Al-Zamakhsharī	467–538	1075–1144
Ibn ʿAṭiyyah	541	1146–1147
Abū Bakr ibn al-ʿArabī	468–543	1076–1148
Al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ	476–544	1083–1149
Ibn Hubayrah	499–560	1105–1165
Al-Suhaylī	508–581	1114–1185
Ibn Barrī	499–582	1106–1186
Ibn Rushd al-Ḥafīd	520–595	1126–1198
Ibn al-Jawzī	508–597	1114–1201
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī	544–606	1150–1210
Abū al-Baqāʾ al-ʿUkbarī	538–616	1143–1219
Ibn Qudāmah	541–620	1146–1223
al-Ṣafrāwī	544–636	1149–1238
Abū al-Ḥasan al-Ḥarrālī	638	1241
al-Muntajab al-Hamadhānī	643	1245
ʿAlam al-Dīn al-Sakhāwī	558–643	1163–1245
Ibn Abī al-Iṣbaʿ	654	1256
Al-ʿIzz b. ʿAbd al-Salām	577–660	1181–1262
Abū Shāmah al-Maqdisī	599–665	1202–1267
al-Qurṭubī	671	1273
Ibn Mālik	672	1274
al-Nawawī	631–676	1233–1277
Ibn al-Munayyir	620–683	1223–1284
al-Bayḍāwī	685	1286
Ibn Daqīq al-ʿĪd	625–702	1228–1302
Abū al-Barakāt al-Nasafī	710	1310
Ibn Manẓūr	630–711	1232–1311
Ibn Taymiyyah	661–728	1263–1328
Ibn al-Bārizī	645–738	1248–1338
Ibn Juzayy al-Kalbī	693–741	1294–1340
al-Khāzin	678–741	1280–1341
Al-Mizzī	742	1341
Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṭībī	743	1342
Abū Ḥayyān al-Andalusī	654–745	1256–1344
Al-Dhahabī	673–748	1274–1348
Ibn al-Qayyim	691–751	1292–1350
al-Samīn al-Ḥalabī	756	1355–1356
Ibn Kathīr	774	1373
Ibn ʿĀdil	775	1373–1374
Badr al-Dīn al-Zarkashī	745–794	1344–1392
Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbalī	736–795	1335–1393
Abū Bakr al-Ḥaddād	800	1397
Ibn ʿArafah	716–803	1316–1400
Ibn al-Hāʾim	753–815	1352–1412
al-Sharīf al-Jurjānī	740–816	1340–1413
Ibn Nūr al-Dīn al-Mawziʿī	825
Ibn al-Jazarī	751–833	1350–1429
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī	773–852	1372–1449
Ibn Amīr Ḥājj	825–879	1422–1474
Burhān al-Dīn al-Biqāʿī	809–885	1406–1480
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī	849–911	1445–1505
Niʿmat Allāh al-Nakhjuwānī	920	1514
Mujīr al-Dīn al-ʿUlaymī	860–928	1456–1522
Ibn Kamāl Bāshā	873–940	1469–1534
Ibn al-Najjār al-Futūḥī	898–972	1492–1564
al-Khaṭīb al-Shirbīnī	977	1570
Abū al-Suʿūd	898–982	1493–1574
Marʿī b. Yūsuf al-Karmī	1033	1624
Aḥmad al-Bannā al-Dimyāṭī	1117	1705
al-Saffārīnī	1114–1188	1702–1774
Ibn ʿAjībah	1161–1224	1748–1809
Qāḍī Thanāʾ Allāh al-Pānīpatī	1143–1225
Sulaymān ibn ʿAbd Allāh Āl al-Shaykh	1200–1233	1786–1818
al-Shawkānī	1173–1250	1760–1834
Wilhelm Gesenius		1786–1842
al-Ālūsī	1217–1270	1802–1854
Marcus Jastrow		1829–1903
Muḥammad ʿAbduh	1266–1323	1849–1905
Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā	1253–1329	1837–1911
Charles Augustus Briggs		1841–1913
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī	1283–1332	1866–1914
Samuel Rolles Driver		1846–1914
Francis Brown		1849–1916
Ibrāhīm al-Marghanī	1349
Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā	1282–1354	1865–1935
Muḥammad ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Zurqānī	1367	1948
Aḥmad Muṣṭafā al-Marāghī	1371	1952
Sulaymān al-Lāḥim	1371	1951–1952
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saʿdī	1307–1376	1889–1957
Aḥmad Shākir	1309–1377	1892–1958
Ḥāfiẓ al-Ḥakamī	1342–1377	1924–1958
Sayyid Quṭb	1324–1386	1906–1966
Muḥammad Fuʾād ʿAbd al-Bāqī	1388	1968
Muḥammad al-Ṭāhir Ibn ʿĀshūr	1296–1393	1879–1973
Muḥammad Muḥyī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd	1393	1973
Muḥammad Abū Zahrah		1898–1974
Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqīṭī	1325–1393	1907–1974
Muḥammad Khalīl Harrās	1395
Muftī Muḥammad Shafīʿ	1314–1396	1897–1976
Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Sāyis	1396	1976
Muḥammad Ḥusayn al-Dhahabī		1915–1977
Abul Aʿlā Mawdūdī	1399
Muḥyī al-Dīn Darwīsh	1326–1403	1908–1982
Ibn al-Khaṭīb	1402
Ernest Klein		1899–1983
Maḥmūd Ṣāfī		1985
ʿĀʾishah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān — Bint al-Shāṭiʾ		1998
Muḥammad Metwallī al-Shaʿrāwī	1419
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Ibn Bāz	1420	1999
Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī	1332–1420	1914–1999
Ibn ʿUthaymīn	1421	2001
Muḥammad Sālim Muḥaysin		2001
Muqbil b. Hādī al-Wādiʿī	1422	2001
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ḥabannakah al-Maydānī	1345–1425	1927–2004
Muḥammad ʿAlī Ṭāhā al-Durrah		1926–2007
Faḍl Ḥasan ʿAbbās		1932–2011
ʿUmar Sulaymān al-Ashqar	1433
Muḥammad Ḥasan Jabal	1350–1436	1931–2015
Wahbah al-Zuḥaylī	1436
Shuʿayb al-Arnaʾūṭ	1346–1438	1928–2016
Zafar Ishaq Ansari		1932–2016
Mufti Afzal Hoosen Elias	1439	2018
Abū Bakr al-Jazāʾirī	1439
Muḥammad ʿAlī al-Ṣābūnī	1442	2021

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