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 Abu Hanifa also differed with the other three schools in many areas including the type of punishments meted out for various crimes in Islam.

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 ".

* 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

It redounds to the credit of Imām Abū Ḥanīfah that he left behind the greatest number of pupils in the world of Islam, including Qadi Abu Yusuf, Imam Muhammad al-Shaybani, Abdur Razzaq, Abdullal Bin Al Mubarak, Abu Naeem Faza, and Abu Asim who acquired great fame in their days.

He started learning jurisprudence ( Fiqh ) under the celebrated Hanafi judge, Abu Yusuf, the renowned student and companion of Imam Abu Hanifah.

Abu Bakr al-Juzjani was the pupil of Abu Sulayman Musa b. Sulayman el-Juzjani, who was the pupil of Imam Abu Yusuf and Imam Muhammad Ash-Shaybani.

Imam Taqiuddin al-Nabhani ( Full transliterated name: Sheikh Muhammad Taqi al-Din bin Ibrahim bin Mustafah bin Ismail bin Yusuf al-Nabhani ; ) was the founder of the Islamist political party Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Former staff have included the Imam and Teacher of hadith, Abu Yusuf Riyadh ul Haq, journalist Adam Yosef and counsellor Abdul Qayyum Lodhi.

Imam al-Qadi Yusuf bin ( son of ) Ismail bin Yusuf bin Ismail bin Muhammad Nâsir al-Dîn an-Nabhani ( 1849 – 1932 ) born in Ijzim in Palestine, now north of Haifa in Israel, died in Beirut.

The Imam Hasan Ali Shah was born in 1804 in Kahak, Iran to Shah Khalil Allah, the 45th Ismaili Imam, and Bibi Sarkara, the daughter of Muhammad Sadiq Mahallati ( d. 1815 ), a poet and a Ni ‘ mat Allahi Sufi.

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

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Omari came from Asir Province, a poor region in southwestern Saudi Arabia that borders Yemen, and graduated with honours from high school, attained a degree from the Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, was married, and had a daughter.

In one of the sayings of Muhammad, in the collection of Imam Bukhari, it says that Muhammad said " One should not say that I am better than Jonah ".

Very few scholars outside of mainstream Islam reject all the quotes ( Hadith ) attributed to Prophet Muhammad that mention the second return of Jesus, the Dajjal and Imam Mahdi, believing that they have no Qur ' anic basis.

Turkish forces withdrew in 1918, and Imam Yahya Muhammad strengthened his control over northern Yemen creating the Mutawakkilite Kingdom of Yemen.

* Ali ibn Abi Talib ( 600 – 661 ), cousin of Muhammad, fourth caliph of Islam, first Shi ' a Imam

* Hussain ibn Ali, grandson of Prophet Muhammad and third Shia Imam

* January 31 – Muhammad al-Baqir, Shia Imam ( b. 676 )

* November 27 – Muhammad at-Taqi, Shia Imam ( b. 811 )

* Muhammad al-Mahdi, Shia Imam

* Ali ibn Husayn, great-grandson of Prophet Muhammad and fourth Shia Imam

* Ali ibn Husayn, great-grandson of Prophet Muhammad and fourth Shia Imam

* Hasan ibn Ali, grandson of Muhammad and second Shia Imam

In 1933, under the direction of the Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, the Islamic Research Association was developed.

The major conflict source between Sunnis and Shias is the Shias ' believing Imam Ali to be the real caliph after Muhammad and accepting 12 " imans " as heirs of his " welayah " ( rule ).

Collections such as Imam al-Nawawi's Kitab al-adhkar and Shams al-Din al-Jazari's al-Hisn al-Hasin exemplify this literary trend and gained significant currency among Muslim devotees keen to learn how Muhammad supplicated to God.