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Quraysh Caravans

Quraysh caravans would travel to Yemen in the winter and to As-Shams (Syria) in the summer. During their summer expeditions the Quraysh Caravans would visit the great trading cities of the Syrian province of Rome. Trading with Christian Arabs of the Ghassan, Persians from Ctesiphon, Copts from Egypt, and the Romans of the Byzantine Empire.[1] In Quran […]

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Quraybah bint Abi Umayyah al-Makhzoomi

Quraybah bint Abi Umayyah al-Makhzoomi married Umar ibn Al-Khattāb during the Days of Ignorance. They remained married until Al-Hudaybiyah where they divorced and she married ‘Abdur-Rahmān ibn Abi Bakr. [1] Notes Jump up↑ Umar ibn Al-khattab, His Life and times by Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallābi, Volume 1, p. 43.

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Names of Allah

The Most Beautiful Names of Allah (Arabic: أسماء الله الحسنى‎‎, translit: ʾasmāʾu llāhi lḥusnā). al-Asma Allah al-Husna In The Quran Allah mentions in four ayat of Quran that He has the Most Beautiful Names. Al-Araf; The Heights [7:180] “Allah has the Most Beautiful Names. So call upon Him by them, and keep away from those […]

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Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj

‘Asakir ad-Din Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj ibn Muslim ibn Ward ibn Kawshan al-Qushayri an-Naysaburi (Arabic: عساكر الدين مسلم بن الحجاج بن مسلم بن وَرْد بن كوشان القشيري النيسابوري‎; after 815 – May 875) or Muslim Nishapuri (Persian: مسلم نیشاپوری‎). Consierted second only to Al-Bukhari as a muhaddith (scholar of hadith).[1] Born in the city of Nishapur, […]

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Muhammad al-Bukhari

Muḥammad ibn Isma‘il ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Mughirah ibn Bardizbah al-Ju‘fi al-Bukharī (Arabic: أبو عبد الله محمد بن إسماعيل بن إبراهيم بن المغيرة بن بردزبه الجعفي البخاري‎‎; 21 July 810 – 1 September 870), or Bukhari (Persian: بخاری‎), was a Persian Islamic scholar who was born in Bukhara (the capital of the Bukhara Region (viloyat) of […]

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Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan

Muawiyah ibn Abu Sufyan (Arabic: معاوية بن أبي سفيان‎, translit. Muʿāwiyah ibn Abī Sufyān;), also known as Muwawiyah I was the son of Sakhr ibn Harb and Hind bint Utbah, as well as a Companion of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). He established what is known as the Umayyad dynasty of the caliphate, and was the second caliph from the Umayyad […]

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Maleekah bint Jarwal

Maleekah bint Jarwal married Umar ibn Al-Khattāb during the Days of Ignorance. They remained married until Al-Hudaybiyah where they divorced and she married Abu al-Jahm ibn Hudhayfah. During her marriage to ‘Umar she bore a son ‘Ubaydullāh ibn Umar.[1] Notes Jump up↑ Umar ibn Al-khattab, His Life and times by Dr. ‘Ali Muhammad as-Sallābi, Volume 1, p. 43.