Imam Jafar al Sadiq famously narrated how the title Siddiq was given to Abu Bakr from Muhammad.

Imam Muhammad al Baqir, the father of Imam Jafar Sadiq also called Abu Bakr with the title Siddiq.

The Hanafi school was the earliest established under the jurist Imam Abu Hanifa, who was born and taught in Iraq.

Imam Abu Hanifa ( 80A. H .– 150A. H.

Under Imam Abu Hanifa, the witr prayer was considered to be compulsory and the Hanafis also differed with other sects in relation to methods of taking ablution, prayers and payment of tithe or zakat.

Imam Malik, whose real name was Abu Abdullah, Malik bin Anas, was born in Medina in the year 715 AD.

* Imam Abu Hanifa, Islamic scholar ( d. 767 )

They follow any one of the four ; Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Shafi, Imam Malik, and Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal, but they primarily follow Hanafi school of fiqh.

The legal meaning of Waqf according to Imam Abu Hanifa, is the detention of specific thing in the ownership of waqif and the devoting of its profit or products " in charity of poors or other good objects ".

Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad Says: Waqf signifies the extinction of the waqif's ownership in the thing dedicated and detention of all the thing in the implied ownership of God, in such a manner that its profits may revert to or be applied " for the benefit of Mankind ".

* Fatima bint Asad, Muhammad's aunt, the mother of first Shi ’ a Imam Ali bin Abu Talib, and the mother-in-law of Muhammad's daughter, Fatima Zahra

According to a number of sources, the Imam Abu Hanifa an-Nu ' man was imprisoned by al-Mansur.

Key figures are Imam Ja ' far al-Sadiq, Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim, Al-Tirmidhi, Ibn Majah, Abu Dawud and Al-Nasa ' i. Each sifted through literally millions of hadith to accept a list of under 10, 000.

Imam al-Qushayri of the Ash ' ari school affirmed the 20 essential Attributes of God that constitute the basis of the Ash ’ ari refutation of the Mu ’ tazila and he also affirmed all of the names and attributes of Allah conveyed by valid texts, the basis for one of the Salafi critiques of the Ash ’ aris along with al-Ibanna of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash ' ari himself which also affirms the attributes of Allah.

However, the idea was first suggested by the early Sunni Muslim jurist Imam Abu Hanifa, founder of the Hanafi school of Fiqh.

# Works in which the aging poet idolizes Imam Ali ibn Abu Talib while there is no trace of ordered thoughts and descriptive skills.

* Online Sunni book: The Tragedy of Karbala and the Martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain ( RA )-By Hazrat Sheykh Abu Anees Muhammad Barkat Ali QSA

Imams such as Imam Abu Hanifa prohibited his students from engaging in kalam, stating that those who practice it are of the " retarded ones.

He studied under various famed scholars including Hisham ibn Urwah, Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri, and — along with Imam Abu Hanifa, the founder of the Hanafi Sunni Madh ' hab -- and under the household of the prophets lineage, Imam Jafar al Sadiq This fact may explain the mutual respect and relative peace that has often existed between the Hanafi and Maliki Sunnis, on one hand, and the Shias on the other.

Statements of the early Imams of the early Muslims are in corroboration with this such as Imam Abu Hanifa who prohibited his students from engaging in kalam, stating that those who practice it are of the " retarded ones.

In Baghdad, he developed his first madh ' hab, influenced by the teachings of both Imam Abu Hanifa and Imam Malik.

* Book on Imam e Azam Abu Hanifa

* Some teachers and students of Imam Abu Hanifa

Imam Ahmad personified the theological views of the early orthodox scholars, including the founders of the other extant schools of Sunni fiqh, Imam Abu Hanifa, Imam Malik ibn Anas, and Imam ash-Shafi ` i.

It is even reported that Mujtahid Imam Abu Hanifa, founder of the largest school of Sunni jurisprudence, gave financial support to Zayd's revolt and called on others to join Zayd's rebellion.

He was succeeded by his eldest son Hasan Ali Shah, also known as Muhammad Hasan, who became the 46th Imam.

An airport security guard and Imam, Abdulaziz al-Omari (,, also transliterated as Alomari or al-Umari ) ( May 28, 1979 – September 11, 2001 ) was one of five hijackers of American Airlines Flight 11 as part of the September 11 attacks.

The madh ' hab he observed was Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i, with similar customs as he had seen in coastal India especially among the Mappila Muslim, who were also the followers of Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i. Ibn Battuta then sailed to Malacca, Vietnam, the Philippines and finally Quanzhou in Fujian province, China.

Farrakhan also moved his group closer to orthodox Sunni Islam in 2000, when he and Imam Warith Deen Mohammed, the leading American orthodox Muslim, recognized each other as fellow Muslims.

The traditional chronology places Surah 9 as the last or second-to-last surah revealed, thus, in traditional exegesis, it gains a large power of abrogation, and verses 9: 5, 29, 73 are held to have abrogated 2: 256 The ahadith also play a major role in this, and different schools of thought assign different weightings and rulings of authenticity to different hadith, with the four schools of Sunni thought accepting the Six Authentic Collections, generally along with the Muwatta Imam Malik.

At that time, acting as the Qá ' im ( He who will arise ), also known as the Mahdi ( He who is rightly guided ), the Hidden Imam would start a holy war against evil, would defeat the unbelievers, and would start a reign of justice.

Shi ' a Muslims believe that when the world becomes oppressed, the Imam Mahdi ( also termed the Qa ' im ) will come out of occultation and restore true religion on Earth before the cataclysmic end of the world and judgement day.

The city of Turkestan in Kazakhstan that hosts the body of the saint Ahmad Yasavi is also called the " astana " as is the city of Mashhad in Iran that is the burial place of the 8th Shiite Imam Reza.

It also serves as the see of the bishop of Omsk and Tara, as well as the administrative seat of the Imam of Siberia.

Popular du ' as would include Jazuli's Dala ' il al-Khayrat, which at its peak spread throughout the Muslim world, and Imam al-Shadhili's Hizb al-Bahr which also had widespread appeal.

Imam Malik ibn Anas, the founder of another school of law, was also flogged during his rule, but al-Mansur himself did not condone this – in fact, it was his cousin, who was the governor of Madinah at the time, who did so.

Hu Songshan, a Muslim Imam from Ningxia, was a Chinese nationalist and preached Chinese nationalism and unity of all Chinese people, and also against imperialism and foreign threats.

Tuanku Imam Bonjol ( 1772 – November 6, 1864 ), also known as Muhammad Syahab, Peto Syarif, and Malim Basa, was a hero in the Indonesian struggle against Dutch rule.

Abdullah el-Faisal ( born Trevor William Forest, also known as Abdullah al-Faisal, Sheikh Faisal, Sheik Faisal, and Imam Al-Jamaikee, born, in Saint James Parish, Jamaica ) is a Muslim cleric who preached in the United Kingdom until he was convicted of stirring up racial hatred and urging his followers to murder Jews, Hindus, Christians, and Americans .< ref >

The Royal Family of Morocco also claims ancestry from Imam Ali but they do not use Hashemite as their dynastic name.

Najaf is renowned as the site of the tomb of Alī ibn Abī Tālib also known as " Imām Alī " the First Imam of Shia's, the cousin and son-in-law of the prophet Muhammad whom the Shia consider to be the righteous caliph.

The city is also home to the al-Askari Mosque, containing the mausoleums of the Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari, the tenth and eleventh Shia Imams, respectively, as well as the shrine of Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the " Hidden Imam ", who is the twelfth and final Imam of the Shia of the Ja ' farī Madhhab.