While they were preparing his body, Abu Bakr, Umar, and Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah met with the leaders of Medina and elected Abu Bakr as caliph.

While Al-Ash ' ari and Al-Tahawi were Sunni together with Al-Maturidi, they constructed their own theologies diverging slightly from Abu Hanifa's school.

" While imprisoned and tortured at Abu Ghraib prison for 11 years under Saddam Hussein for ' religious activities ,' he refused to help build a nuclear weapon for the country.

While in Pakistan, Ahmed became increasingly known by the kunya name Abu Abdurahman al-Kanadi ( Father of Abdurahman, the Canadian ), due to a misunderstanding among the community about which of his sons was eldest.

While in Algiers, he recruited Abu Ali Iyad who became his deputy and one of the high-ranking commanders of al-Assifa in Syria and Jordan.

While his tomb was mentioned as being " in a good state ", it is clear that his mummy was moved at some point afterward, as it was discovered in 1857 at Dra ' Abu el-Naga ', seemingly deliberately hidden in a pile of debris.

Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj, Abu Dawud and An-Nasa ' i, all recorded from Anas ibn Malik that he said, " While we were with the Messenger of Allah in the Masjid, he dozed off into a slumber.

While still young, he went to visit Abu Tammam at Homs, and by him was commended to the authorities at Ma ' arrat an-Nu ' man, who gave him a pension of 4000 dirhams yearly.

While Khalid was on his way to attack Qadissiyah ( a key fort in the way to the Persian capital Ctesiphon ), he received a letter from Caliph Abu Bakr and was sent to the Roman front in Syria to assume the command of the Muslim armies to conquer Roman Syria.

While still in Germany, they met Khalid al Masri who put the group in contact with Abu Musab in Duisburg, Germany.

Abu Ali said it was “ very painful ” and that it was the “ first time I felt extreme pain .” While he was being hit on the back, people in the room kept telling him to “ confess .” When the beating began, he was clad in an undershirt and long underpants.

While prosecutors had pushed for a life sentence, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee explained that the ( relatively ) light sentence was handed down because Abu Ali's actions " did not result in one single actual victim.

While in Abu Dhabi, Carrie learns how important a marriage can be when her butler tells her how he is separated from his wife for months at a time, but when they see each other, nothing else matters.

While shopping at a local market with Miranda in Abu Dhabi, Carrie and Aidan encounter each other, they make a plan to catch up over dinner, and in a moment of passion, share a brief kiss.

While they were engaged in washing the body and preparing it for burial, a secret meeting, of which Ali and the Muhajirun weren't told, was taking place at Saqifah, which ended with Abu Bakr being chosen as the new leader.

While not many could take his punishing rigours and demands of work and discipline, those who did went on to become successful entrepreneurs and notable amongst these were Tan Sri Wan Azmi Bin Wan Hamzah, Tan Sri Halim Bin Saad, and Tan Sri Samsuddin Bin Abu Hassan.

While Abu Sa ' id lacked a treasury, Coban's son and administrative representative Demasq Kaja spent his wealth extravagantly.

While some ( Ahmed Jibril, Abu Musa ) still supported Amal against the PLO, many anti-Arafat fighters battled Amal in defense of the camps.

While technically serving the Ilkhan Abu Sa ' id, he was the effective power behind the throne.

While Abu Fakih was a slave, he accepted Islam, and when his slavemaster Safwan came to know that Abu Fakih had become a Muslim, he subjected him to great torture.

While the identity of the first male convert is disputed, Zayd is a strong possibility, as are Ali and Abu Bakr.

While the Persians were contesting each other in Iran, the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga (" grand assembly ") to select a leader among his people.

While Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese called the game, Bob Costas and his NFL ' 85 castmates, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage.

While Ahmad complained of Mulla Mustafa's " selfishness, arbitrariness, unfairness, tribal backwardness and even his dishonesty.

While many Companions narrated hadith, according to Ahmad ibn Hanbal there were six who were the most prolific narrators of them, who lived long lives enabling them narrate to a large extent.

While his siblings joined his father's trade, Muhammad Ahmad showed a proclivity for religious study.

While, Munir Ahmad Khan had failed to convince Ayub Khan, Bhutto had said to Munir Ahmad Khan: Don't worry, our turn will come.

While Ahmad Shah Bahadur was defeated, the losses were very heavy on both sides.

While he was in Lahore at the home of Dr. Syed Muhammad Hussain ( who was also his physician ), Mirza Ghulam Ahmad fell ill from excessive weakness and died.

While welcoming towards the break with the ICP, Ahmad however still held suspicions of Barzani and his policy for the party and remained critical of his leadership.

While in Salah al-Din, Baer unsuccessfully urged the Clinton administration to back an internal Iraqi attempt to overthrow Hussein ( organized by a group of Sunni military officers, the Iraqi National Congress ' Ahmad Chalabi, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan's Jalal Talabani ) in March 1995 with covert CIA assistance.

While some NIF leaders, including Turabi, were placed under house arrest following the coup as part of the internal power struggle that brought President Omar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir to power, they were soon released.

While Imam Ahmad has traditionally sometimes been interpreted as being an Arab in Ethiopia or sometimes also as a Harari,

: While his camp was being pitched, the king of Zeila Ahmad ascended a hill with several horse and some foot to examine us: he halted on the top with three hundred horse and three large banners, two white with red moons, and one red with a white moon, which always accompanied him, and which he was recognized.

" While acknowledging that many modern Somali nationalists consider Ahmad a national hero, Henze dismisses their claims, stating that the concept of a Somali nation did not exist during Ahmad's lifetime.

While Bale was the first Ethiopian province Imam Ahmad Gragn conquered after the Battle of Shimbra Kure, Emperor Geladewos quickly recovered it after the Imam's death.

While this was transpiring, in the nearby southern Tarim Basin city of Khotan, three brothers of rich Bughra family, Muhammad Amin Bughra, Abdullah Bughra and Nur Ahmad Jan Bughra, educated in the jadidist tradition, had led a rebellion of gold miners who worked in Surghak mines near Keriya city, also in Yurunkash and Karakash mountain rivers, and established themselves as emirs of the city, having declared the Khotan Emirate and independence from China on March 16, 1933.

While some presented themselves to Gelawdewos expecting to be pardoned only to be executed, to many others he granted his safe-conduct, according to Miguel de Castanhoso, " for there were so many had joined Imam Ahmad that had he ordered all to be killed, he would have remained alone.

While playing a minor role in the Packers defense in his rookie year, his impressive play in the 2005 minicamps had Thomas in prime position to outseat fellow second year corner Ahmad Carroll for the No. 2 cornerback position.

While Dick Enberg, Merlin Olsen and Bob Griese called the game, Bob Costas and his NFL ' 85 castmates, Ahmad Rashad and Pete Axthelm anchored the pregame, halftime and postgame coverage.

While his thesis work on Ahmad al-Alawi had been well regarded, his most famous work was a biography of Muhammad, written in 1983, which earned him acclaim in the Muslim world and prizes from the governments of Pakistan and Egypt.

While Ahmad Kasravi has claimed in his book that the primary school were established with the help of Amin od-Dowle, the then prime minister, this cannot be confirmed by the records of Fakhreddin Roshdieh, Mirza Hassan's son.

While little more than a large village, Debre Berhan is mentioned a few times in the 16th century, the first time as a mustering center by Emperor Lebna Dengel against the invading armies of Ahmad Gragn.

While the main contractor are the Ahmad Zaki Resources Berhad ( AZRB ) and Ho Hup Construction Company Berhad ( HHCC ).