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Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri, often referred to as Hasan of Basra or Hasan al-Basri, [a] was an ancient Muslim preacher, ascetic, theologian, exegete, scholar, and judge. [ 1 ] Born in Medina in 642, [ 2 ] Hasan belonged to the second generation of Muslims, all of whom would subsequently be referred to as the tābiʿūn in Sunni ...
Shaykh Osman continued and added that Khalwa or seclusion is a practice that Al-Hasan Al-Basri mainly lived by and is the fundamental practice in the Khalwati order. [citation needed] Al-Hasan Al-Basri is known as pir of the pirs which by all the 12 tariqa orders have their silsilas from. He also added that Umar al-Khalwati is a shaykh that ...
There is no evidence in the historical archive 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 modern period: [8] After a life of hardship, she spontaneously achieved a state of self-realization. When asked by Hasan al-Basri how she ...
Sufism (Arabic: الصوفية, romanized: al-Ṣūfiyya or Arabic: التصوف, romanized: al-Taṣawwuf) is a mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic purification, spirituality, ritualism, and asceticism.
Maqalat al-Islamiyyin wa Ikhtilaf al-Musallin (Arabic: مقالات الإسلاميين واختلاف المصلين, lit. ' The Treatises/Teachings of the Muslims and the Differences of the Prayerful/Worshippers ') is one of the main heresiographical works of early Islamic sects written by the Sunni scholar Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari (d. 324/ ...
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Al Qushayri was born into a privileged Arab family from among the Banu Qushayr who had settled near Nishapur. [7] As a young man he received the education of a country squire of the time: adab, the Arabic language, chivalry and weaponry (istiʿmāl al-silāḥ), but that all changed when he journeyed to the city of Nishapur and was introduced to the Sufi shaykh Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq.
Basat al reeh was when a prisoner was tied to a board and beaten. Falaqa involved beating a victim’s feet. In the opposition-held province of Idlib, I interviewed a dentist in 2012 who was ...