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'Abd Allah al-Majdhub of Egypt

عبد الله المجذوب المصري

c. 1520 CE · c. 926 AH

The Abyssinian-born majdhub 'shaykh of the hashish-takers' — built himself a turba at the Gharqi gateway on the mujawirin road, 'his intellect a calamity, never sleeping night or day', whose vigil-stand endures by Shaykh Idris's mujawirin 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
mystic
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Egypt & Nile
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ziyad, mufti of Zabid · 'Abd Allah al-Fakihi, the grammarian · Abu al-Su'ud Afandi · Abu Numayy II, sharif of Mecca

Spirituality and Sufism

Overview

Shaykh 'Abdallah al-Majdhub, Abyssinian by origin, known as Shaykh al-Hashasha; he entered Egypt and built himself a mausoleum dug at the gharqa of the mujawirs' road by the customs rise toward Balat al-Hukma — he died in it and was buried there, and it is still known among the mujawirs of Shaykh Idris. 1

His states

A marvel of mind, he slept neither night nor day, and often had his wife present with him at the waqfa. 1

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)· Certainty and its degrees (yaqin)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 592
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Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.