Dawud

• Sufyan al-Thauri (R.A)

(715/6-777/8 AD)

Abu Abdullah Sofyan bin Saeed bin Masrook bin Habib bin Rafiu al-Thauri was born in 97 AH/ 715-6 AD at Kufah. In 158 AH/775 AD, Caliph Mansoor Abbassi offered him the post of Qazi (Judge) which he refused and was compelled to go into hiding in Yamen and then in Makkah; he died in 161 AH/777-8 AD and buried at Basra. He founded a school of jurisprudence which survived for about two centuries. He was called Ameer al-Mu’mineen. He wrote three books: (1) Jaruiu al-Kabee-r (2) . Jamiu al-Sagheer both books contained the sayings of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and (3) Kitnab al-Fara’iz (Book on the Law of Inheritances).

Dawud aI-Ta’i

(Died in 781 /2 AD)

Abu Sulaiman Dawud bin Nosair al-Ta’i of Kufah

was a man of notable erudition, a pupil of Imam Abu

Hanifah (R.A); he was converted to the ascetic life by

Habib al-Ra’I and threw all his books into the river

Euphrates. He died between 160 AH/ 777AD and 165

AH/781-2 AD.

Imam Malik (R.A)

(712-795 AD)

Abu Ahdullah Malik bin Ms bin Malik (RA), theologian and jurist who played an important role in formulating early Islamic legal doctrines and is known as the founder of Malki Code of Law was born at Madinah in 93-4 AH/712 AD and died in 179 AH/795 AD at Madinah.

Ibn al-Mubarak (R.A)

(736-797 AD)

Abu ‘Abd al-Rahxnan Abd Allah ibn alMuharak al-Hanzali al-Marwazi, born in 118 AH/736 AD of a Turkish father and a Persian mother, was a noted authority on Traditions (Ahadiths) and a famous ascetic. He studied under many teachers in Merv and elsewhere, and became erudite in many branches of learning, including grammar and literature. A wealthy merchant who distributed much in alms to the poor, he died at Hit on the Euphrates in 181 AH/797 A. He composed many works on Traditions, and one of these, on the theme ol asceticism, has survived.

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Imam Moosa Kazim (R.A)

(745-799 AD)

Abu al-Hassan Moosa IKazim bin Imam Ja’far

Sadiq (R.A) was born at Abwa (between Makkah and

Madina) in 128 AH/745 ADand died in 183 AH/799

AD at Baghdad in the, prison during the reign of

Caliph Haroon al-Rashid and buried in Kazmeen in

the tomb of Imam Hassan Askari (R.A).

Ibn Samaak (WA)

(Died in 799 AD)

Abu al-Abbas Muhammad bin Sabeeh al-Kufi alZahid, famously called Ibn Samaak, was a narrator of the sayings of the Holy Prophet (SAW) and a Sufi saint; died in 183 AH/799 AD at Kufah (Iraq)..

Rabe’a BasH (R.A)

(714-801 AD)

An outstanding Sufi and one of the few women in Islam to he considered the actual equal of men, Rabe’a bint Esma’il al-Adawiya, was born in humble circumstances and sold into slavery as a child, later settled in Basra where she attained great fame as a saint and a preacher and was• highly esteemed by many of her pious contemporaries. Her name Rabe’a

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parents; and while still a child kidnapped and sold into slavery, but later freed. She was born in 95-97 411/714 AD and died in 185 AH/801 AD.