In the Islamic times, a pseudo-etymology was produced by the historian Ahmad ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri ( d. 892 ) quoting a folk story that the town was presumably founded by one " Abbad bin Hosayn " from the Arabian Tribe of Banu Tamim, who established a garrison there during the governorship of Hajjaj in the Ummayad period.

He initially sent a special corps ( hasam ) under Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hudayr, governor of Écija, to Seville, to obtain their submission.

This attempt failed, but gained him the support of Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hayyay, lord of Carmona, and a cousin of the Sevillan lord, Ahmad ibn Maslama.

On the African continent, the cannon was first used by the Somali Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi of the Adal Sultanate in his conquest of Ethiopia in 1529.

Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi led the Adal Sultanate's troops during the Ethiopian-Adal War.

During the protracted Ethiopian-Adal War ( 1529 – 1559 ), Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi defeated several Ethiopian Emperors and embarked on a conquest referred to as the Futuh Al-Habash (" Conquest of Abyssinia "), which brought three-quarters of Christian Abyssinia under the power of the Muslim Adal Sultanate.

The faith was preached by Hamza ibn ' Alī ibn Ahmad, a Persian Ismaili mystic and scholar.

* Michael Crichton's Eaters of the Dead is a fabricated recreation of the Old English epic Beowulf in the form of a scholastic translation of Ahmad ibn Fadlan's tenth century manuscript.

In a similarly worded Hadith to the one above, Ibn Nuhaas cited a hadith from Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal, where it states that the highest kind of Jihad, is "“ The person who is killed whilst spilling the last of his blood .” 4 / 144

* 922 – After much hardship, Abbasid envoy Ahmad ibn Fadlan arrived in the lands of Volga Bulgars.

According to Ahmad ibn Hanbal, these verses were followed to the letter at the times of Muhammad, when Jews and Christians, considered monotheists, were still allowed to the Masjid al-Haram.

The leader of the revolt, Ahmad ibn Said al Said, was elected sultan of Muscat upon the expulsion of the Persians.

The Al Said clan became a royal dynasty when Ahmad ibn Said Al Said was elected imam following the expulsion of the Iranians from Muscat in 1744.

Schisms within the ruling family were apparent before Ahmad ibn Said's death in 1783 and were later manifest with the division of the family into two main lines, the Sultan ibn Ahmad Al Said ( r. 1792 – 1806 ) line controlling the maritime state, with nominal control over the entire country ; and the Qais branch, with authority over the Al Batinah and Ar Rustaq areas.

* 1531 – Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi again defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia.

In addition, Eastern Oromos who were converted to Islam ruled over most of Ethiopia together with Afars and Somalis when Horn of African Muslims who were united and led by Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi conquered a majority of Christian Ethiopian highlands.

But instead of handing power over to Khalifa ibn Hamad, who had been named heir apparent in 1948, he made his son, Ahmad ibn Ali, ruler.

Most of the leading scientists around the year 1000 were Muslim scientists, including Ibn al-Haytham ( Alhacen ), Abu Rayhan al-Biruni, Avicenna, Abu al-Qasim ( Abulcasis ), Ibn Yunus, Abu Sahl al-Quhi ( Kuhi ), Abu-Mahmud al-Khujandi, Abu Nasr Mansur, Abu al-Wafa, Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Al-Muqaddasi, Ali Ibn Isa, and al-Karaji ( al-Karkhi ), among others.

* Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Arab writer and traveller

* Ahmad ibn Fadlan is sent from Baghdad to the king of the Volga Bulgars, on behalf of the Abbasid Caliph al-Muqtadir.

The present territory of Tatarstan was inhabited by the Volga Bulgars who settled on the Volga river in the 7th century and converted to Islam in 922 during the missionary work of Ahmad ibn Fadlan.

One account by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921 claims that Norse warriors were sometimes buried with enslaved women with the belief that these women would become their wives in Valhalla.

After arriving in Bolğar, Ahmad ibn Fadlan made a trip to Wisu and recorded his observations of trade between the Volga Bolğars and local Finnic tribes.

* Ahmad ibn Fadlan – 10th century Iraqi explorer.

A detailed eyewitness account of a human sacrifice by what may have been a völva was given by Ahmad ibn Fadlan as part of his account of an embassy to the Volga Bulgars in 921.

* Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Abbasid ambassador to the Volga Bulgars

* 1999: In The 13th Warrior, a loose adaptation of the legend mixed with the accounts of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, Queen Wealhþeow ( here spelled " Weilew ") is portrayed by Diane Venora and plays a vital part in directing the warriors to their enemy's cave.

The Caliph of Baghdad Al-Muqtadir ( Arabic: المقتدر بالله ) sends his ambassador, Ahmad ibn Fadlan ( Arabic احمد بن فضلان ), to the king of the Volga Bulgars.

Ahmad ibn Fadlan is taken along, as the thirteenth member of their group, to bring good luck.

The Muslim explorer Ahmad ibn Fadlan, in his travelogue regarding his diplomatic mission in 921 AD to Volga Bulgars ( a vassal of the Khazarian Empire ), noted the beliefs about Gog and Magog being the ancestors of the Khazars.

In 1923 Validi emigrated, after discovering original manuscripts of Ahmad ibn Fadlan in Iran.

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Norse funerals, or the burial customs of Viking Age North Germanic Norsemen ( early medieval Scandinavians ), are known both from archaeology and from historical accounts such as the Icelandic sagas, Old Norse poetry, and notably from the account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan.

A 10th century Arab Muslim writer named Ahmad ibn Fadlan produced a description of a funeral of a Scandinavian, probably Swedish, chieftain who was on an expedition on the eastern route.

For example the Arab Ahmad ibn Fadlan tells in his writings that he in a Nordic burial in Russia witnessed that a female slave was killed for this purpose.

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Ahmad ibn Abi al-Ash ’ ath observed the physiology of the stomach in a live lion in 959.

Phase 1: Shaping: A U. S. Navy SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team is tasked to insert in the region of the suspected safe buildings of Ahmad Shah, observe and identify Shah and his men and specific locations, and guide a direct action team of phase two to structures in which Shah and his men are observed to be staying.