Hilyat al-Awliya' wa Tabaqat al-Asfiya' (Arabic: حلية الأولياء وطبقات الأصفياء, romanized: The Ornament of God's Friends and Generations of Pure Ones)...
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Exalted." Abû Nu`aym authored over a hundred works, among them: The Hilyat al-Awliya' is a substantial work in ten volumes, comprising a total of 695 biographies...
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al-safwa (Beirut: dar al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1403/1989) 203 (#254); Abu Nu`aym, Hilyat al-awliya, s.v. "Abu Hashim al-Sufi."(2) Ibn al-Jawzi, op. cit. Muslim...
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2008), pp. 168-169 Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī, Ḳūt al-ḳulūb, Cairo 1310, passim Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʾ (Beirut 1967–8), 2:131–61...
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Basmala (redirect from Bismillah Al-Rahman Al-Rahim)
al-Manthúr, vol. 1, p. 8, also records this tradition and gives a list of other scholars who have cited it including Abú Na’ím al-Isfahání in Hilyat al-Awliya’...
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Nu'aym. Ḥilyat al-Awliyā'. p. v. 11 p. 389. Ibn Hajr, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (5/386). al-Mubärakpürī, Abü al-Maʻälī Aṭhar (1958). Rijäl al-Sind wa-al-Hind (in...
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Junayd of Baghdad (redirect from Al-Junayd al-Baghdadi)
ibn Mughallas. As to the hagiography by Attar of Nishapur, the Tazkirat al-Awliya, had felt the pain of divine separation since childhood. Regardless of...
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Qadiriyya (redirect from Hamza al Qadiri al Boutchichi)
القادرية) or the Qadiri order (Arabic: الطريقة القادرية, romanized: al-Ṭarīqa al-Qādiriyya) is a Sunni Sufi order (Tariqa) founded by Abdul Qadir Gilani...
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Shubah al-Tashbih Sifatu al-Safwah, five parts, reworking of Hilyat al-Awliya by the 11th century scholar Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani 'Ādāb al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī...
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Ahmad 6/165, Abu Nu’aym in "Hilyat al-Awliya" 1/371, al-Hakim 3/226, Ibn al-Athir in "Usd al-Ghabah" 2/308, al-Hafiz in "Al-Isabah" 4/105 Salim also sold...
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(3/110). Hilyat al-Awliya, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (1/350). Al-Isti'ab fi ma'rifat al-ashab, Ibn 'Abd al-Barr (1/285) Siyar A’lam al-Nubala’, al-Dhahabi...
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Bayazid Bastami (redirect from Abu Yazid al-Bistami)
Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, 10 vols., Cairo 1932–8, 10:33 Al-Iṣfahānī, 10:34 Al-Iṣfahānī, 10: 36–7 Al-Iṣfahānī, 10:35 Al-Iṣfahānī, 10: 36 Mojaddedi, “al-Bisṭāmī...
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Abdul Qadir Gilani (redirect from Al-Sayyid Muhiyudin Abu Muhammad Abdal Qadir Al-Jilani Al-Hasani Wal-Hussaini)
Qadir Gilani held the highest position in the hierarchy of Sufi saints (Awliya) having achieved the rank (Maqam) of the succour (Ghawth). He famously declared...
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Al-Dhahabi uses it much as a reference in is book, Tarikh al-Islam (History of Islam) and Imam al-Asbahani uses it in his Hilyat al-Awliya. Uyub al-Nafs...
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Senusiyya (redirect from Muhammad bin Ali al-Senussi)
the Grand Sanussi (Arabic: السنوسي الكبير as-Sanūssiyy al-Kabīr), the Algerian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi. During World War I the Senussis fought against...
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Ibn Arabi (redirect from Abū abd-Allah Muhammad ibn-Ali ibn Muhammad ibn al-`Arabi al-Hatimi al-TTaa'i)
Kingdom (At-Tadbidrat al-ilahiyyah fi islah al-mamlakat al-insaniyyah). The Four Pillars of Spiritual Transformation (Hilyat al-abdāl) a short work on...
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Malik Dinar (redirect from Malik al-Dar)
Pellat, Ch., “Mālik b. Dīnār”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam. Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ , ii, 357-89 Ṣifat al-ṣafwa , Ḥaydarābād 1356, iii, 197-209 Pellat, Ch., “Mālik...
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Sufism (redirect from Al-ṣūfiyya)
influence on al-Ghazali's Ihya' 'Ulum al-Din (The Revival of the Religious Sciences). Hilyat al-Awliya wa Tabaqat al-Asfiya (The Ornament of God's Friends...
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Tijaniyyah (redirect from Al-Ṭarīqah al-Tijāniyyah)
(Arabic: الطريقة التجانية, romanized: al-Ṭarīqa al-Tijāniyya) is a Sufi order of Sunni Islam named after Ahmad al-Tijani. It originated in Algeria but...
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Rabia Basri (redirect from Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya)
that Rabia ever met Hasan al-Basri; however, the following stories, which first appeared in Attar of Nishapur's Tazkirat al-Awliya, is a common trope in the...
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Ma'ruf ibn Firuz al-Karkhi (Persian: معروف بن فيروز الكرخي, romanized: Maʿrūf ibn Fīrūz al-Karkhī) was a Sufi Muslim saint. Maruf was born in the district...
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Abdelaziz Benabdallah (in French) Le Tawhid des Awliya par le Shaykh Ahmad At Tijani (in French) Al Haqiqat Ul Muhammadiyyah par le Shaykh Ahmad At Tijani...
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make asceticism in this world." List of Sufis Hagiography in Tazkirat al-Awliyā, Attar of Nishapur Siddiqi, Iqtidar Husain (2010). Indo-Persian historiography...
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Ahmad al-Murtada, bin Ali, bin Hasan al-Asghar, bin Mahdi, bin Muhammad, bin Hasan al-Qasim, bin Husayn, bin Ahmad al-Salih al-Akbar, bin Musa al-Thani...
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Mawlid (redirect from Al-Mawlid al-Nabawi)
birthday of the Islamic prophet Muhammad on the traditional date of 12 Rabi' al-Awwal, the third month of the Islamic calendar. A day central to the traditions...
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Chishti Order (redirect from Huzaifah Al-Mar'ashi)
Ibn Mubarak Kirmani, the Mureed of Khwaja Fareed al-Deen Ganj-e-Shakar, who wrote in his Siyar al-Awliya that Nizamuddin Auliya said the following: "Sama...
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Hasan first taught forty students who were known as the forty friends (al-awliya al-arba'un). His new tariqah was a stunning success, drawing masses of people...
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Baha' al-Din Naqshband (Persian: بهاءالدین محمد نقشبند; 1318–1389) was the eponymous founder of what became one of the largest Sufi Sunni orders, the Naqshbandi...
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Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (Arabic: إبراهيم الكوراني), full name Burhān al-Dīn Ibrāhīm ibn Ḥasan al-Kūrānī was a 17th-century Sunni Muslim scholar and Athari theologian...
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