Al Junayd Ibn Muhammad

Abu al-Qasim al-Junayd ibn Muhammad, one of the heads of the Sufis. Ibn al-Nadim describes him as pious and ascetic. Ibn al-Athir gives his death as 298 AH. ^{2 3}

Ibn al-Nadim relates from Ja'far al-Khaldi that he took from al-Junayd, that al-Junayd took from al-Sari al-Saqati, that al-Sari took from Ma'ruf al-Karkhi, that Ma'ruf took from Farqad al-Sanji, that Farqad took from al-Hasan al-Basri, and that al-Hasan met seventy of the men of Badr. ²

Ibn al-Athir describes him as the imam of his age in the world, and says that he took jurisprudence from Abu Thawr, the companion of al-Shafi'i, and Sufism from al-Sari al-Saqati. ³

• This chain of transmission is Ibn al-Nadim's report from al-Khaldi, and it has not been compared with another source here.