The Story of Sibawayh the Persian: The Imam of Arabic grammar!
When a single mistake leads you to become an Imam for the Ummah How often we frown at ourselves when we make mistakes in life, and indeed how often we become disheartened when we fall into error! But...
View ArticleIbn Hazm the Persian of Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain)
One of the most notable and influencal figures of Islamic history about whom Imam Al-Dhahabi (Syrian/Shami of Turkistani descent) said: قال الذهبي في بداية ترجمته : ( الإمام الأوحد البحر ، ذو الفنون...
View ArticleThe Giants of Persia – The carriers of knowledge (language, Tafsir, Hadith etc)
بسم الله و حمد لله والصلاة و السلام على رسول لله اما بعد سابق الفرس إلی الإسلام صحب النبي صلی الله عليه وسلم و خدمه و حدث عنه. According to Bernard Lewis: “[Arab Muslims conquests] have been variously...
View ArticleWhat the LEADER of the Salaf (Tabi’een) said about Ahl Fars (people of Persia)
Note: Ahl Farsi (people of Persia) are obviously those who represent 900 YEARS of Sunni Persian history, not the last 500 YEARS of Safawi-Rafidism that was introduced by the Turkish-Azeri Safawi...
View ArticleThe Seven Ahrûf (of the Qur’an), did you know who narrated most of them?
Revelation Of The Qur’an In Seven Ahrûf It is a well-known fact that there are seven different Ahrûf in which the Qur’an was revealed. In the Islamic tradition, this basis can be traced back to a...
View ArticleThe Imam of TRUE Sufism, the Persian Salafi Al-Junayd Al-Bagdadi
He is Abu’l-Qasim al-Junayd b. Muhammad b. al-Junayd al-Khazzâz al-Baghdadi, born in Baghdad around 215 and lived most his life in that capital until he died in 298 AH. Junayd of Baghdad (Persian: جنید...
View ArticleIbn Khaldun on the Persians (Sunnah Muslims)
Abu Zayd ‘Abdurrahman bin Mohammad bin Khaldun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was a Tunisian Arab of Hadhrami/Yemenite descent. He is a major muslim scholar (among his students:...
View ArticleAhmad Kasravi (Ex-Shia) – An unsheathed sword against pagan Rafidite Shi’ism...
Ahmad Kasravi (29 September 1890 – March 11, 1946), was an Iranian intellectual (Ancient Languages, history, Politics, religion, and Philosophy) and one of the few Iranian intellectuals who instead of...
View ArticleAl-Ramhurmuzi the Persian – The founder of the categorisation of the sciences...
Al-Ramhurmuzi (Persian: Ramhormozi 265-290 hijri), the Imam, the skilled Hafidh, the Muhaddith of the Persians, Abu Ahmad, Al-Hassan Ibn Abdul-Rahman Ibn Khalal Al-Farsi Al-Ramhurmuzi Al-Qadhi (the...
View ArticleA people who have done one of the greatest service to Islam
and the praise of the scholars for them: more picture and articles … to understand why such sayings used to be said about Persia and the Persians, visit the following links and articles: The Service of...
View ArticleTwo gems of Persia – Abu Hatim & Abu Zur`a Al-Razi
MUST-READ: Notable Hadith Scholars – Abu Hatim al-Razi - by Sheikh Abdul Mohsin Bin Hamad Al-Abbad – Professor at the Faculty Of Shari’a, Islamic University of Madinah Al-Munawwarah. Aqidah of the...
View ArticleIbn Darastawayh Al-Farsi – Another master of the Arabic language
We are delighted to present you another gem of Persia (you won’t find a SINGLE equivalent to these great Sunni personalities who enriched the Islamic Ummah for around 900 years of Sunni-Persian...
View Articleویکی خرافات Wiki-Khorafat
ویکی خرافات Wiki Khorafat a new excellent facebook page by the Iranian Sunni community exposing the heresies of twelver Shi’ism from Kulayni to Khomeini, provided by scans (some unique stuff to be...
View ArticleImam Al-Bukhari the Persian
Abū ‘Abd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl ibn Ibrāhīm ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Bardizbah (proper old Persian name) al-Ju‘fī (Mawla of the Ju’fi’s, not an Arab Ju’fi himself) al-Bukhārī, in short: Imam Al-Bukhari....
View ArticleKuwaiti parliament stripped Shaikh Nabil Al-‘Awadhi (of Persian descent) of...
Many important and influencial ‘Arab’ personalties in the Gulf are actually of Persian descent (including high ranking politicans and businessmen in KSA, UAE and Bahrain). Among them is the Islamic...
View ArticlePersians in al-Andalus
We have already written an article about the Persian origin of the great Muslim scholar Ibn Hazm of Andalusia. The following great article by the bellandalus blog sheds some more light on more famous...
View ArticleWere all the six Masters of Hadith originally Persians?
In short: Yes and no. Depends on how one would define Persian (only by origin or place of birth etc.). This article here has caught our attention. It is well written but not very precise so we’d like...
View ArticleImam Muhammad Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi of Samarqand (ancient Persian city)
The famous Imam Muhammad Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (853–944 AD) was a Persian (some mention that he was a descendant from the Sahabi Abu Ayyub Al-Ansari) Sunni from the ancient Persian city of Samarqand....
View ArticleIbn Jarir Al-Tabari – The gem of the Sunnis from the lands of Persia
Imam al-Tabari (Rahimahullah) said, “I am amazed by the one who reads the Qur’an but doesn’t understand it, how can he enjoy its recitation.” Abu Ja’far Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari (Persian: محمد بن...
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