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Find speakers, recorders and interpreters, or follow the evidence and proposed connections for a historical event.

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Historical event

1833 Leonid meteor storm

1833-11-13

A major meteor storm was visible over eastern North America before dawn on 13 November 1833.

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Abaye

A named speaker in the Talmudic discussion of the coming of the Messiah.

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Abbo of Fleury

Abbot of Fleury who opposed a Paris sermon dating Antichrist to the completion of a thousand years.

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Abdu’l-Bahá

The attributed commentary discusses more than one meaning of a Qur’anic prediction.

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Abraham bar Ḥiyya

Jewish mathematician and astronomer whose Megillat ha-Megalleh reckons the ends of Daniel’s 1,290 and 1,335 days as the Hebrew years 5118 and 5163.

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Abu Huraira

Narrator of the selected report about Jesus’ descent; the report also preserves his appended reference to Quran4:159.

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Abul A‘la Maududi

Interprets the Qur’anic reference to Jesus and the Hour; the current note is an editorial paraphrase of his reading.

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Al-Albani

Named by the cited hadith host as the evaluator of the displayed reports.

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Al-Kulayni

Compiler of the hadith collection al-Kafi.

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Al-Mufid

Author of al-Irshad, preserving transmitted reports.

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Al-Qurtubi

Author of the Qur’an commentary Al-Jami li-ahkam al-Qur’an.

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Al-Samin al-Halabi

Author of Al-Durr al-masun fi ulum al-Kitab al-maknun. The selected Arabic commentary discusses Qur’an 43:61.

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Al-Tabari

Author of the Qur’an commentary Jami al-bayan.

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Al-Thaalibi

Author of Al-Jawahir al-hisan fi tafsir al-Quran. The selected Arabic commentary discusses Qur’an 43:61.

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Ali ibn Ahmad al-Wahidi

Author of Al-Wajiz fi tafsir al-Kitab al-Aziz. The selected Arabic commentary discusses Qur’an 43:61.

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Amy A. Wright

Latter-day Saint speaker of the linked general conference commentary.

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Anatole Le Pelletier

Paris editor and printer whose Les Oracles de Michel de Nostredame (1867) printed the Lyon text of Nostradamus with variants and historical notes.