These great scholars not only spread the word but also replied to those non muslims who tried their best in every age to malign the image of islam. Below is given the list of some of the muslims scholars who achieved the respect through their great work on Islam.
The fuqaha and muhaditheen who did not care for the night and day and spent their entire lives in helping the cause of islam.
They include
IMAM ABU HANIFAH
IMAM BUKHAIR
IMAM MUSLIM
IMAM ABU DAWOOD
IMAM MALIK
IMAM HUNMBLE
IMAM AHMED
And those who were their students and were pious muslims, who did not utter a single word against the religion of ALLAH, nor did they innovated anything in the religion of ALLAH.
IMAM AN-NAWAWI
IBN-E KATHIR
MAULANA MAUDODI
JALAL UD DIN MAHALLI
JALAL UD DIN AL-SUYUTI (THESE “JALALS” ARE WRITERS OF TAFSIR-E JALALYN)
MUHAMMAD IBN-E ABDUL WAHAB
SHEIKH NASIR UD DIN ALBANI
SHEIKH UTHEMAN
SHEIKH SALMAN AL-OADAH
SHEIKH AYMAN BIN KHALED
SHEIKH IBN TAYMIYA
IMAM IBN HAJAR
SHEIKH IBN-AL QAYYIM
BASSAM ZAWADI
KHALID YASEEN
KAMAAL AL MEKKI
SHAYKH ZUBAIR ALI
SHAYKH FEIZ
SHAYKH MUBASHAR AHMAD RABBANI
IBN E HAJAR ASQALANI ( FATH UL BARI)
The IRF scholars/orators:
SHEIKH AHMED DEEDAT
DR. ZAKIR NAIK
DR. ISRAR AHMED
ABDUR RAHEEM GREEN
YUSUF ESTAS
YASIR FAZAGA
YASIR QAZI
BILAL PHILIPS
SALEM AL AAMRY
JAMAL BADAWI
DR. JAFAR IDRIS
DR. HUSSAIN HAED HASSAN (ISLAMIC FINANCE EXPERT)
ASIM AL HAKIM
HUSSAIN YEE
IMAM SIRAJ WAHAB
DR. MEHMOOD MUHAMMAD
RIAZ ANSARI
ABDUR RAHEEM MCCARTHY
ABDUL HAKIM QUICK
MUHAMMAD AL JIBALI
AMMAR AMONETTE
Among Others’
TAUSEEF UR REHMAN RASHIDI
SHAH WALIULLAH DEHLVI
IBTISAM ELAHI ZAHEER
DR FARHAT HASHMI
And there are many who are not present in the list but their efforts to spread the light of islam is not hidden from ALLAH swt. Such people will definitely earn a good place in the hereafter. Let us all pray for them and those who are not present on the list or not recognized by many, that they all get the reward for their efforts. Amin.