Part of the series on Muslim scholars

First famous scholars

Abu Hanifa an-Nu'man - 699 Jafar Sadiq - 702, Shia Imam Malik ibn Anas - 715 Abu 'Abd Allah ash-Shafi'i - 767 Ahmad ibn Hanbal - 780

Early scholars

Imam Bukhari - 810, Hadith compiler Imam Muslim - 821, Hadith compiler Abu Dawud - 817, Hadith compiler At-Tabari - 838, Historian Al-Nasa'i - Hadith compiler Ibn Maja - 824, Hadith compiler Al-Tirmidhi - 824, Hadith compiler at-Tahawi - 853 Al-Barbahaaree - 940 Ibn Hazm - 994, Andalusian philosopher Al-Ghazali - 1058, Persian theologian/philosopher Abdul-Qadir Gilani - 1077 Ibn al-Jawzi Al-Qurtubi Ibn Qudamah - 1147 Ibn Athir - 1160 An-Nawawi - 1234 Ibn Taymiyyah - 1263, famous Sunni scholar Ibn al-Qayyim - 1292 Ibn Kathir - 1301, famous author of tafsir Ibn Khaldun - 1332, Historian Ibn Rajab - 1335 Suyuti - 1445

Later scholars

Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab - 1703, Sunni scholar Ahmad-i-Ahsa'i - 1826, Shia scholar Imam Ahmad Raza Khan1856-1920 Sunni,founder of Barelwi Movement Yusuf an-Nabhani - 1849, Sunni scholar, influential in Sufism Ilyas Attar Qadri-founder of Worldwide Dawat-e-Islami Movement Muhammad Ilyas - 1885, founder of Tablighi Jamaat

Recent scholars

Ruhollah Khomeini - 1900, Shia scholar, leader of Iranian Revolution Bin Baaz - 1910, former Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia al-Albanee - 1914, Hadith scholar Ahmed Deedat - 1918, Comparative religionist Ibn 'Uthaymeen - 1925, Sunni scholar Abdullah Yusuf Azzam‎ - 1941, Sunni scholar Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee - Sunni scholar

Modern scholars

Yusuf al-Qaradawi - 1926, Sunni scholar Rabee Al-Madkhali - 1931, Sunni scholar Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani - 1930, Shia scholar Muhammad Taqi Usmani - 1943, Sunni scholar Yusuf Estes - 1944, former Christian Muhammad Tahir ul-Qadri - 1951, Sunni scholar Zakir Naik - 1965, Comparative religionist

Abdul-Qader Arnaoot, (Arabic: عبد القادر الأرناؤوط‎) (also Abdul Qadir al-Arna'ut, Arnaut, Abdul-Kader Arnauti, and other variants) (1928-2004) was an important and influential Islamic scholar of Albanian origin, of the 20th century; he specialised in the fields of hadith and fiqh.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Abdul Qader was born into a poor family in the town of Vrela in Kosovo in 1347 AH/1928. Because of the Serbian oppression against the Muslims, his family emigrated (he was at the age of three) to Damascus where he started to learn Arabic and the sacred Islamic sciences.

[edit] Hadith scholar

Studying under a variety of the great scholars of his time, he was able to achieve a high level in sacred transmitted knowledge. Soon he became among famous scholars in the Science of hadith in Syria. In fact, he was considered by major scholars to be one of the world's top five Hadîth masters. Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani was asked from whom they should take the final word on hadîth if he was to pass away, to which the Shaykh replied, "Abdul Qadir." He gave lectures in many Islamic Institutions mainly in in Damascus and later in Saudi Arabia, UAE, and his original country Albania when the Communist era elapsed.

[edit] Relationship with the Syrian government

His famed oratory skills matched by a unique and sincere concern for his people, often led him to speak his mind, never fearing the authorities or oppressors. The Ba'ath government attempted to restrict his life as much as possible and he had suffered much difficulties at their hands, being banned many times from lectures and teaching, and then being placed under house arrest. He died on Friday, 26 November 2004.

[edit] Notable publications

As a teacher and redactor and editor of a publishing house in Damascus, the Shaykh has left behind over a complete 90 works like:

• Jâmi' al-Usûl of Ibn Athir (encyclopaedic work)
• Al-Wajeez (A Brief Summary of the Early Muslim Generations Belief)
• The Virtues of the Qur'an
• Zâd al-Masîr fî 'Ilm at-Tafsîr (Provision of the Journey) by Abu-al-Faraj Ibn Al-Jawzi - 9 volumes
• Rreadatul Taibin - 12 volumes
• Zad al-Ma'ad of Ibn Qayyim - 6 volumes
• al-Adhkâr by Nawawi
• El Furkan[1]
• al-Kâfi by Muwaffaq ud-Dîn al-Maqdisi - 3 volumes

Some of that work was a group work with other famous scholars such as Mishkât al-Masâbîh which was a shared work with Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and Zad al-Ma'ad which was a shared work with Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut.