Talk:Salaf

Thanks to Leo for cleaning this up -- a bit of actual knowledge is much better than any amount of list processing. -- The Anome 16:00, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Question: Uqbah ibn Aamir, or Uqbah ibn Amir? Or are these different people? Also, how should you sort transliterated Arabic names? -- The Anome 16:08, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * They are the same person.ZaydHammoudeh 08:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Transliteration
Interesting question. Do you know if we can incorporate diacritical marks into Wikipedia text? I don't know if it's worth using ' before certain vowels to indicate their glottal nature e.g. 'Ali.

I have a feeling that it's Uqbah ibn 'Aamir i.e. with a long vowel but will have a look through some original arabic to make sure.


 * Yes, we can; for example in "Shi'a Islam". Any chance you can type up the original Arabic names whilst you're looking them up? It would be great to have the original spellings of these transliterated names in this list in brackets following the English versions: this will also aid interwikiing the articles in the future.-- The Anome 01:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

That shouldn't be too much trouble. Is unicode the only means of inputting arabic letters? Leo Africanus 12:05, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)

If you're using the Mozilla Firefox web browser, you can cut and paste Arabic text into Wiki edit panes, and they will appear as Arabic. When you save, it's automagically converted to Unicode numeric entities in non-Unicode Wikipedias (which the English one is at the moment). -- The Anome 12:08, Oct 28, 2004 (UTC)

Attempting to classify..
In my attempt to be bold I'm going to try to classify the companions, at least the first two generations... PLEASE feel free to modify any errors I make, I shall try to reference the less obvious ones... -- GNU 4 Eva 29 June 2005 17:43 (UTC)

Need Classification?
I think the Need Classification section should be removed. The list is incomplete anyway and the names can be added again if anyone knows their classification.

Of the last 3, we know for sure that Tariq ibn Ziyad and Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi have met the tabi'i Musa ibn Nussair, but don't know if they met with any of the Sahaba. Should the be placed in the third generation anyway? Also, if Amir Ibn Abdullah Al-Tamimi is Amir ibn 'Abdullah ibn az-Zubair, then he is a tabi'i. --198.166.20.167 23:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Etymology of the term
What is the etymology of the term salaf as used here? Faro0485 (talk) 21:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC) -- Scimitar is another word for salif, acording to the article by that name. RCNesland — Preceding unsigned comment added by RCNesland (talk • contribs) 08:04, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Zayd bin Ali
Zayd bin Ali is not in the list??68.100.170.227 (talk) 01:14, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

Salaf? Quran and Hadith's.
I am willing to explore. Ujjie104 (talk) 14:11, 19 October 2018 (UTC)