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List of Shia Muslim scholars of Islam

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See also: List of Marjas and List of Ayatollahs

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An incomplete list of Shia Muslim scholars listed based on the century in which they were born;

7th century

  • Sulaym ibn Qays al-Hilālī al-ʿĀmirī (died c.695)
  • Zurāra b. Aʿyan b. Sunsun al-Shaybānī al-Kūfī, known as Zurara b. A'yan (c.690 - c.767)
  • Maʿrūf b. Kharrabūdh (b. in the second half of the seventh century)
  • Al-Fudayl b. Yasar al-Nahdi al-Basri, known as Al-Nahdi (b. in the late seventh century)
  • Sulayman b. Mihran al-A'mash al-Kufi, known as A'mash Kufi (680-c.765)
  • Abū Saʿīd Abān b. Rubāḥ al-Bakrī al-Jurayrī al-Kindī al-Rabaʿī al-Kūfī, known as Aban b. Taghlib (died c.758)
  • Asim b. Bahdala Abi l-Najud al-Asadi al-Kufi (b. between 661-680, died 744-746)
  • Abān b. Abī ʿAyyāsh (Fīrūz) al-Baṣrī al-Tābiʿī, known as Aban b. Abi 'Ayyash (died 746-757)
  • Sa'īd b. Jubayr b. Hishām al-Asadī al-Wālibī (665-714)

8th century

  • al-Thumali, Abu Hamzah (d. 767)
  • Abu Mikhnaf (died 774)
  • Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Abi Nasr al-Bazanti (769-836)
  • Hasan b. Mahbub (766-839)
  • Yunus b. 'Abd al-Rahman (723-819)
  • Ṣafwān b. Yaḥyā al-Bajalī (died 825)
  • Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
  • Al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Faḍḍāl al-Taymulī al-Kūfī (died 839)
  • Al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Ḥasanī, known as Sayyid al-Karīm and Shah ʿAbd al-ʿAzīm (789-866)
  • ʿAlī b. Mahziyār al-Ahwāzī al-Dawraqī (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
  • Faddala b. Ayyub al-Azdi al-Ahwazi (b. in the middle of the 8th century)
  • Abū Aḥmad Muḥammad b. Abī ʿUmayr b. Zīyad b. ʿĪsā al-Azdī (died 832)
  • Burayd b. Muʿāwiya al-ʿIjlī (died before 765)
  • Yahya b. Abi l-Qasim al-Asadi, known as Abu Basir al-Asadi (died 767)
  • Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Thaqafī al-Kūfī (died 767)
  • Abū Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān (c.721 – c.815)
  • Ja'far al-Sadiq (700-765)
  • Al-Waqidi (c. 747-823)
  • Sufyan al-Thawri (716–778)
  • Sufyan ibn ʽUyaynah (725-814)

9th century

  • al-Kulayni, Muhammad ibn Ya‘qub (864-941)
  • Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Mahzīyār al-Ahwāzī (c.811 - c.879)
  • Muhammad b. Yahya al-'Attar al-Qummi (lived late of ninth century until the half of the tenth century)
  • Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Khalid al-Barqi (c.815 - c.887/894)
  • Abu 'Ali Hasan b. 'Arafa al-'Abdi al-Baghdadi (died 870)
  • Abu Ja'far Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Daqiqi al-Wasiti (died 879)
  • Abū Muḥammad Faḍl b. Shādhān b. Khalīl al-Azdī al-Nīshābūrī (died 873)
  • Al-Kindi (died 873)
  • Fatima al-Fihri (died 880)
  • Ahmad b. Muhammad b. Isa al-Ash'ari (died c. 890)
  • Abu Hatam Muhammad b. Idris al-Razi (died 890)
  • Ahmad ibn A'tham (died 926)
  • Muhammad b. al-Hasan b. Ahmad, known as Ibn al-Walid al-Qummi (c.883-954)
  • Qummi, Ali ibn Babwayh (died c.940)
  • Husayn b. Sa'id al-Ahwazi (b. before 817-868)
  • Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi (lived during the second half of the ninth and beginning of tenth centuries)
  • Muhammad b. 'Umar al-Kashshi (died c. 951)
  • Fadl b. Shadhan b. Khalil al-Azdi (died 873)
  • ʿAbd Allāh b. Jaʿfar al-Ḥimyarī (lived in 9th century)
  • Sa'd b. 'Abd Allah al-Ash'ari al-Qummi (lived in 9th century)
  • Ya'qubi (died 898)
  • Al-Masudi (c. 896–956)
  • Al-Farabi (c.872-950)

10th century

  • Abu Noaym Ahámad b. Abdallah Esfahani (d. 1038 AD)
  • Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Shaykh al-Mufid) (948–1022)
  • al-Murtadha (965–1044)
  • al-Saduq (918–991)
  • Tusi, Abu Ja‘far (995–1067)
  • Ahmad b. 'Abd al-Wahid b. Ahmad, known as Ibn Hashir (d.1032)
  • Sharif al-Murtaza (965–1044)
  • Al-Sharif al-Radi (970–1015)
  • Ibn Jonayd Eskafi (b. 902)
  • Abu Muhammad Harun b. Musa b. Ahmad al-Talla'ukbari (b. c.900)
  • Muhammad b. Mas'ud al-'Ayyashi Sullami Samarqandi (lived in 10th century)
  • Ibn al-Nadim (died c. 995)
  • Ibn Babawayh (923-991)
  • Ibn Qulawayh (died c. 979)
  • Avicenna (c. 980 - 1037)

11th century

  • al-Tabarsi, Fadhl ibn Hasan (1093–1153)
  • Aḥmad Ibn ʿAyyāsh al-Jawharī (d. 1010)
  • Muḥammad al-Sharīf al-Raḍī, (al-Sayyid al-Raḍī) (d. 1015)
  • Muḥammad al-Qummī (Ibn Shādhān) (d. 1029)

12th century

  • Sayyed Ibn Tawus (1193–1266)
  • Abū al-Wafā Abd al-Jabbār al-Rāzī (d. 1110)
  • Abū al-Ḥasan Alī al-Fanjkirdī al-Nayshābūrī (d. 1119)
  • Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥasan al-Ṭūsī (d. 1121)
  • Abū Manṣūr Aḥmad al-Ṭabrisī (author of al-Iḥtijāj) (d. 1192)

13th century

  • al-Bahrani, Maytham (1238–1299)
  • al-Hilli, Jamal al-Din Hasan (Allamah) (1250–1325)
  • Tusi, Nasir al-Din (1201–1274)
  • Muhaqqiq al-Hilli (c.1205–1277)

14th century

  • Khalīfa al-Māzandarānī (d. 1335)
  • Amīd al-Dīn al-A'rajī (d. 1353)
  • Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Kāshī (d. 1354)
  • Muḥammad al-Ḥillī (Fakhr al-Muḥaqqiqīn) (d. 1369)

15th century

  • Izz al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan al-Āmilī (d. 1399)
  • Ḥāfiẓ Rajab Bursī (d. 1410)
  • Jamāl al-Dīn al-Baḥrānī (Ibn al-Mutawwaj) (d. 1416)
  • Zayn al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Alī (Ṣāḥib al-Ṣirāṭ al-mustaqīm) (d. 1472)

16th century

17th century

18th century

19th century

20th century

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