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Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz

أبو سعيد الخراز

912 CE · 299 AH

A major Sufi, known for the station of trust in God. Ibn al-Jawzi places his death under 277 (with a variant 286), describing him as 'one of the foremost in effort, devoutness and self-watchfulness' 1.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
mystic
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
Identifiers
Wikidata
Review
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Life in time

8008258508759009259509751000 c. c.
The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abd Allah ibn Muhammad (Umayyad amir of Cordova) · Abdallah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani

Spirituality and Sufism

Place in the story

  • Saint (as venerated)Tradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Abu Said al-Kharraz, Ahmad ibn Isa, one of the leading Sufis. 2

His Sufism

The encyclopaedia says that his Sufism was at the station of trust in God (tawakkul). It records his death in 299 AH (about 912 CE). This is an inherited report and needs a second source. 2

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. al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , p. 105
  2. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

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.