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According to a hadith attributed to ibn Abbas, God created four types of intelligent beings; those among whom all will be in paradise - they are the angels; all those who will be in hell-fire - they are the devils; and creatures both in paradise and hell - they are the jinn and humans. [1] Most creatures can be assigned to these.
Abū-Sa'īd Abul-Khayr (967–1049, buried in Miana, Turkmenistan, poet who innovated the use of love poetry to express mystic concepts) Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi (1219–1287, buried in Anfoushi, one of the four master saints of Egypt) Abul Hasan Hankari (1018–1093, buried in Baghdad, noted scholar and miracle worker)
Additionally, the Quran mentions God's revealing of the Scrolls of Abraham and the Scrolls of Moses. Early Quranic manuscript written on vellum (mid-late 7th century CE) Muslims hold the Quran , as it was revealed to Muhammad , to be God's final revelation to mankind , and therefore a completion and confirmation of previous scriptures, such as ...
This is a list of Islamic texts.The religious texts of Islam include the Quran (the central text), several previous texts (considered by Muslims to be previous revelations from Allah), including the Tawrat revealed to the prophets and messengers amongst the Children of Israel, the Zabur revealed to Dawud and the Injil (the Gospel) revealed to Isa (), and the hadith (deeds and sayings ...
Collected stories about the "lives or vitae of the saints", began to be compiled "and transmitted at an early stage" [1] by many regular Muslim scholars, including Ibn Abi al-Dunya (d. 894), [1] who wrote a work entitled Kitāb al-Awliyāʾ (Lives of the Saints) in the ninth-century, which constitutes "the earliest [complete] compilation on the ...
The discussion of religion in terms of mythology is a controversial topic. [5] The word "myth" is commonly used with connotations of falsehood, [6] reflecting a legacy of the derogatory early Christian usage of the Greek word mythos in the sense of "fable, fiction, lie" to refer to classical mythology. [7]
Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit."Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc. – is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints (wali, plural awliya) and their miracles authored by the Sunni Muslim Persian poet and mystic Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar of ...
In the tradition of Sunni Islam in particular, the concept attained an especially important position in the writings of the Sunni mystics and theologians, whence it appears in the works of Sunni authorities as diverse as Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 956), Ali Hujwiri (d. 1072), Ibn Asakir (d. 1076), Khwaja Abdullah Ansari (d. 1088), Ibn Arabi (d ...