| Name of author | Died (AH/CE) | Region | City / town | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Ḥassān ibn Thābit (RA) | 0050/0670 | Hejaz | Medina |
 | Anṣār (RA) | 0050s/0670s | Hejaz | Medina |
 | Rābi‘a al-‘Adawiyya | 0185/0801 | Iraq | Basra |
 | Saadi | 0691/1292 | Iran | Shiraz |
 | Būṣīrī, al- | 0696/1294 | Egypt | Alexandria |
 | Yunus Emre | 0720/1320 | Turkey | Eskişehir |
 | Hongwu Emperor | 0800/1398 | East Asia | Nanjing |
 | Murad III | 1004/1595 | Turkey | Istanbul |
 | Ḥaddād, al- | 1132/1719 | Yemen | Tarim |
 | Baḥrāwī, al- | 1200s/1800s? | Egypt | Alexandria |
| Wafā’ī, ‘Abd al-Hādī al- | 1328/1910 | Levant | Homs |
 | Ḥabashī, ‘Alī al- | 1333/1915 | Yemen | Seiyun |
| Tyssen, Amherst | 1348/1930 | British Isles | London |
 | Ibn al-Ḥabīb | 1391/1972 | Maghreb | Meknes |
 | Niazi, Abdul Sattar | 1423/2002 | South Asia | Faisalabad |
 | Bura‘ī, ‘Abd ar-Raḥīm al- | 1426/2005 | Sudan | El-Obeid |
| Abid Barelvi | 1429/2008 | South Asia | Karachi |
 | Warsi, Muzaffar | 1432/2011 | South Asia | Lahore |
 | Muhtar Holland | 1433/2012 | British Isles / North America | (various) |
 | Abdal Hakim Murad | alive | British Isles | Cambridge |
 | Adeyinka Mendes | alive | North America | Princeton, NJ |
 | Ahmad Ikhlas | alive | British Isles | London |
 | Dawud Wharnsby | alive | North America | Waterloo, ON |
 | Hamza Yusuf | alive | North America | Berkeley, CA |
 | Kareem Salama | alive | North America | Ponca City, OK |
 | Mostafa Azzam | alive | North America | Toronto |
 | Nader Khan | alive | North America | Toronto |
 | Shane Atkinson | alive | North America | Raleigh, NC |
 | Yusuf Islam | alive | British Isles | London |
 | Zulfiqar Ahmad | alive | South Asia | Jhang |