• Abu Nuʿaym al-Isfahani (أبـو نـعـيـم الأصـفـهـانـي; full name: Ahmad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ahmad ibn Ishāq ibn Mūsā ibn Mahrān al-Mihrānī al-Asbahānī (or...
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    wa al-Jama'ah by Abu al-Qasim Hibat Allah al-Lalakai Al-Farq bayn al-Firaq by Abu Mansur Al-Baghdadi Hilyat al-awliya by Abu Nu`aym Al-Arba`in ala Madhhab...
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  • Abu Nu'aym Ridwan (or Abu al-Nu'aym Ridwan) was a minister and military commander in the Emirate of Granada. Born a Christian with Castilian and Catalan...
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    in later writings by such important Sunni thinkers as Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 996), Abu Nu`aym (d. 1038), Ali Hujwiri (d. 1077), Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201)...
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    al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled "Abu Hashim al-Zahid" in his Sifat al-safwa after the early hadith master Abu Nu`aym in his Hilyat al-awliya, that Sufyan...
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  • still holding his position as a judge. According to Iranian historian Abu Nu`aym, Ibn Abi Asim was buried in Isfahan's Doshabaz cemetery. Ibn Abi Asim...
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    Usman-i-Ghani, by Mohammad Alias Aadil. Publishers: Mushtaq Ahmed Lahore Abu Nu`aym, Hilya al-Awliya' 1:92–100 #3; al-Dhahabi, Siyar A`lam al-Nubala' 1/2:...
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  • from; they reached close to 3,000.’” The better known of these were: Abū Nuʿaym al-Faḍl ibn Dukayn Zuhayr ibn ʿAbbād Yaḥyá ibn Bukayr ʿUbayd Allāh ibn...
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  • hometown rival, Abu Nu’aym al-Isfahani (d. 1039), due to their differences in madhhab and theological contentions. He denounced Abu Nu’aym on account of...
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    al-Awliya lil Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d. 430 AH) Marifat us Sahaba lil Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d. 430 AH) Akhbar al-Isbahan lil Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani (d...
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    other scholars he read but whom he had never met personally, such as Abu Nu`aym (d. 1038), a Shafi'i Ashari mystic, al-Khatib al-Baghdadi (d. 1071), a...
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  • Generations of Pure Ones) is a biographical encyclopaedic book authored by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani. It provides a glance of the lives of more than 200 saints...
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    Abū Yazīd Ṭayfūr bin ʿĪsā bin Surūshān al-Bisṭāmī (al-Basṭāmī) (d. 261/874–5 or 234/848–9), commonly known in the Iranian world as Bāyazīd Basṭāmī (Persian:...
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  • freedman of Abu Hudhayfah. The Prophet said: 'Praise be to Allah who has placed someone like you in my Ummah'. — Musnad Ahmad, Ahmad 6/165, Abu Nu’aym in "Hilyat...
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  • the collection of Sahih Bukhari are given on his authority. Mashahir, 99-Too; Ghaya, 1. 283; Abu Nu`aym, II. 105-19; Kashif, I. 235; Ibn Marthad 41-3...
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    collector Shihab al-Din Muhammad al-Nasawi, historian and biographer Abu Nu`aym, Islamic scholar Ostanes, ancient Persian alchemist Paul the Persian (6th...
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  • Kurdî". Rûpela . 2022-05-17. Retrieved 2023-08-09. Abu Nu'aym, pp. 3073/6. al-Athir, pp. 304/6, 345/6. al-Asqalani, pp. 540–541. Abu Nu'aym, al-Isfahani...
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  • Nicholson, Reynold A. "The Mystics of Islam", 1914. p. 26 Hujwiri, 91-2; Abu Nu`aym, II. 345-57; Ghaya, II. 274; Mashahir, 151 Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of...
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  • Imam Abu Dawud of Sunan Abu Dawud. While one of his famous student is Abu Nu'aym al-Asbahani who transmitted hadith from him. Al-Ajurri wrote many books...
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  • Zahid al-Kawthari Tarikh Baghdad, xII. 296; Abu Nu`aym, II. 98-102; GAS, 1. 398 I. Sa’d, 6.86; Abu Nu‘aym, 2.98 https://web.archive.org/web/20060822131327/http://www...
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  • proto-Sufl mystic; he was of Persian origin. GAS, 1. 634-5; Mashahir, 79; Abu Nu`aym, 111. 229-59 Abdul Malik al-Qasim, The Life of This World is a Transient...
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  • ahadith are given on his authority in Sahih Muslim and by al-Tirmidhi. Abu Nu`aym, v. 11. 14062; Mashahir, 148; Massignon, Essai, 169; Kashif, III. 216...
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    Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭūsiyy al-Ghazali (Arabic: أَبُو حَامِد مُحَمَّد بْن مُحَمَّد ٱلطُّوسِيّ ٱلْغَزَّالِيّ), known commonly as Al-Ghazali...
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    ISBN 90-04-10952-8. Abu Nu'aym. Ḥilyat al-Awliyā’. p. v. 11 p. 389. Ibn Hajr, Tahdhib al-Tahdhib (5/386). al-Mubärakpürī, Abü al-Maʻälī Aṭhar (1958)...
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    Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (Arabic: أبو الحسن الشاذلي) (full name: Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Jabbār al-Ḥasanī wal-Ḥusaynī al-Shādhilī)...
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  • Muhammad's(SAW) companion Umar and is therefore seen as from among the Tabi'un. Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani has recorded the strong sense of filial piety by Uwais preoccupied...
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    caliphate whilst there was a widespread lack of food. It is also narrated by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani that he had reddish-white skin. His teeth were ashnabul asnan...
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  • Oyaina, Ibn Juraij, etc. "Muḥammad b. al-Munkadir". Brill. Mashahir, 65; Abu Nu`aym, in. 146-58 Ibn-H̲allikān,William MacGuckin de Slane, Aḥmad Ibn-Muḥammad...
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  • the Quran, Habib Siddiqui October 2004 Mashahir, 99-Too; Ghaya, 1. 283; Abu Nuʿaym, II. 105-19; Kashif, I. 235; Ibn Marthad 41-3 usulgloss2 Archived November...
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    king of Balkh (itself an earlier centre of Buddhism). As recounted by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Ibrahim emphasized the importance of stillness and meditation...
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