List of Famous people named Abu

Hashim al-Shaykh, also known by his nom de guerre Abu Jaber Shaykh is a rebel commander during the Syrian Civil War who is a senior leader of Tahrir al-Sham. He had reportedly resigned from his position in Ahrar al-Sham where he served as a senior commander to help command and direct the merger. Abu Jaber is a Salafist Muslim with a jihadist ideology, which is reflected in the ideology of the group he leads.

Abu Sa'd Khusrau Shah, was the Buyid amir of Fars. He was the son of Abu Kalijar.

Thābit ibn Safiya famously known as Abū Hamzah al-Thumālī Thābit ibn Dīnār was a close companion of Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin.

Abū Bishr Mattā b. Yūnus al-Qunnāʾī was a Christian philosopher who played an important role in the transmission of the works of Aristotle to the Islamic world. He is famous for founding the Baghdad school of Aristotelian philosophers.

Abū Hilāl al-‘Askarī was an Islamic scholar.

Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi, was considered to be the most important Central Asian Hanafi theologian in the Maturidite school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, provided a fairly detailed account of al-Maturidi Central Asian predecessors.