iPhone app Muslim Scholars & Companions

Muslim Scholars & Companions is the most extensive, interactive and up-to-date Muslim Scholar Database.

This work is an effort to collect, compile and store (electronically, in one place) authentic information about Muslim scholars since the advent of Islam more than 1400 years ago.

Features:

It include brief inter-linked biographies of Muslim scholars since the time of Companions of Prophet Muhammad ( ), arranged by century (AH) and areas of interest.

It also include all known companions (Sahaba, RA), famous Successors (Tabaeen), their Followers (Taba Tabaeen) and later scholars including all known hadith narrators.

Tags are used for easy grouping/searching/Events (like Abyssinia, Aqaba, Badr).

Suggest as you type (the companion names).

Different variations of name and kunya for a particular narrator/scholar are captured.

Known family members (parents, siblings, spouses, children) are also recorded.

Information like date of birth/death, places of stay, teacher and student list and narrator grade/rank provide useful details about hadeeth narrators.[More.]

Student of hadeeth sciences can greatly benefit in the field of ilm al-rijal (knowledge of men/authorities), tabqat al-ruwat (classes of narrators) and al-jarh wal-tadil (impugnment & validation).

Authentic Resources:

These Arabic resources are separately stored in the database (searchable) and are linked with the main database.

al-Isabah by Ibn Hajar (12,000+ records) -

at-Thaqat by Ibn Hibban (16,000+ records) -

al-Tarikh-ul-Kabir by al-Bukhari (12,000+ records) -

Tabaqat by ibn Sad (4,000+ records)-

Siyar Alam al-Nubala by al-Dhahbi (5,000+ records)-

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