Men from history H2

This book was originally a series of hadiths that Ali al-Tantawi was accustomed to broadcast from Damascus Radio in the fifties, each one a hadith about one of the Islamic scholars. Some of these scholars were known to people beforehand and their fame increased; such as Salah al-Din, Nur al-Din, Omar ibn Abd al-Aziz, Qutaybah ibn Muslim, Al-Hasan al-Basri, Abu Hanifa, Ahmad ibn Hanbal, al-Bukhari, and al-Ghazali. Others were less known at first but became known through these hadiths; such as Asad ibn al-Furat, Muhammad ibn Bashir, Al-Mundhir ibn Saeed, Ornak Zib, Muzafar ibn Mahmoud, Radhia bint Altamish (Sultana of India), and Ala al-Din al-Jamali (Mufti of Sultan Suleiman). The book also includes translations of some writers and poets, such as Abu Dlamah, Malik ibn al-Raib, Ibn Ammar, and al-Zabidi (expositor of the dictionary).