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    al-Māturīdī's epithet or nisba refers to Māturīd or Māturīt, a locality in Samarkand (today Uzbekistan). His full name was Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Maḥmūd...
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  • said (instead of Mushabbihah) "Muqatiliyyah" (followers of Muqatil ibn Sulayman). Full name Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān ibn Thābit ibn Zūṭā ibn Marzubān al-Taymī...
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  • ibn Taym ibn Murra ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr.: 115  He lived in Mecca and married Umm al-Khayr Salma bint Sakhar ibn ʿĀmir ibn Kaʿb ibn...
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    Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl ibn Ibrāhīm al-Juʿfī al-Bukhārī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبرهيم الجعفي البخاري; 21 July 810 – 1 September...
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  • Al-Zubayr ibn al-Awwam ibn Khuwaylid al-Asadi (Arabic: الزُّبَيْر بْن الْعَوَّام بْن خُوَيْلِد الأَسَدِيّ, romanized: al-Zubayr ibn al-ʿAwwām ibn Khuwaylid...
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  • Ya'qub ibn Ibrahim al-Ansari (Arabic: يعقوب بن إبراهيم الأنصاري, romanized: Yaʿqūb ibn Ibrāhīm al-Anṣārī), better known as Abu Yusuf (Arabic: أبو يوسف...
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  • World", and Ibn Taghribirdi gave him the honorable title of "Shaykh al-Islam". Some scholars ranked him as mujtahid in Hanafi fiqh. Abu al-Barakat 'Abd...
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  • Abu al-Layth Nasr ibn Muhammad al-Samarqandi (Arabic: أبو الليث نصر بن محمد السمرقندي, romanized: ʾAbū al-Layth Naṣr ibn Muḥammad al-Samarqandī; 944–983)...
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    operation code named Operation Kayla Mueller that resulted in the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the then-leader and self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State...
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    Isnilon Hapilon, one of the group's leaders, swore an oath of loyalty to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (IS). In September 2014, the...
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