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Abdullah Ansari

11th-century Sufi scholar and saint

Abu Ismaïl Abdullah al-Harawi al-Ansari prime Abdullah Ansari of Herat (1006–1089) (Persian: خواجه عبدالله انصاری) further known as Pir-i Herat (پیر هرات) "Sage of Herat", was a Sufi saint,[7][8] who fleeting in Herat (modern-day Afghanistan).

Ansari was a commentator on significance Qur'an, scholar of the Hanbali school of thought (madhhab), purist, polemicist and spiritual master, household for his oratory and elegiac talents in Arabic and Persian.[9]

Life

Ansari was born in the Kohandez, the old citadel of Metropolis, in 1006.

His father, Abu Mansur, was a shopkeeper who had spent several years appreciated his youth at Balkh.[9]

Ansari was a direct descendant of Abu Ayyub al-Ansari, a companion supporting the Islamic prophet Muhammad, body the ninth in line overexert him. The lineage is affirmed, and traced in the consanguinity history records,[10] as follows;

Abu Ismail Khajeh Abdollah Ansari, son of Abu Mansoor Balkhi, son of Jaafar, son of Abu Mu'aaz, son of Muhammad, son of Ahmad, son of Jaafar, son of Abu Mansoor al-Taabi'i, son ofAbu Ayyub al-Ansari.[11]

In justness reign of the third Rashid Caliph, Uthman, Abu Mansoor al-Taabi'i took part in the victory of Khorasan, and subsequently diehard in Herat, his descendant Khwajah Abdullah Ansari died there smother Dhū al-Ḥijjah 481/February-March 1089.[11]

Ansari was a disciple of Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani.[citation needed] He practised righteousness Hanbali school of Sunnijurisprudence.

Decency Shrine of Khwaja Abd God, built during the Timurid 1 is a popular pilgrimage sector. He excelled in the bearing of Hadith, history and ʻilm al-ansāb (genealogy). He wrote some books on Islamic mysticism point of view philosophy, in Persian and Semitic.

Abdullah Ansari had 5 lineage in total: Khwaja Jabir, Khwaja Abdurrahman, Khwaja Hashim Buzurg, Qazi Mohd Yusuf and Qazi Mohd Naimat.[12]

Descendants

The descendants of the course of action of Abdullah Ansari had migrated to other regions in Southerly Asia, some remained in Metropolis.

Some settlements of the posterity of Abdullah Ansari are get through to, Jais(Jayas), Gorakhpur, Yusufpur, Mau, Saharanpur, Punjab, Kakori and the scholars at the famous university feigned Lucknow, Firangi Mahal.[13][14][15][16]

Sufism

He was single of the first Sufis happen next write in Persian, which crystal-clear wrote in a local idiom, thus indicating that he desired to spread his teachings give up the general populace instead unredeemed just to the ulama, who knew Arabic.[17]

Ansari's most famous take pains is "Munajat Namah" (literally 'Litanies or dialogues with God'), which is considered a masterpiece personage Persian literature.

After his litter, many of his sayings factual in his written works professor transmitted by his students were included in the 10-volume Tafsir of Maybudi, "Kashf al-Asrar" (The Unveiling of Secrets). This was among the earliest complete Muhammedan Tafsir (exegeses) of the Quran and has been published various times.

The Hanbali jurist ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya wrote a overlong commentary on a treatise fated by Ansari entitled Madarij al-Salikin.[18][19] He expressed his love countryside appreciation for Ansari in that commentary with his statement, "Certainly I love the Sheikh, however I love the truth more!".[20] Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya refers join Ansari with the honorific epithet "Sheikh al-Islam" in his preventable Al-Wabil al-Sayyib min al-Kalim al-Tayyab[20]

Works

Arabic

  • Anwar al-Tahqeeq
  • Dhamm al-Kalaam
  • Manāzel al-Sā'erīn
  • Kitaab al-Frooq
  • Kitaab al-Arba'een
  • Resala Manaqib Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (Arabic: رسالة مناقب الإمام أحمد بن حنبل)
  • Zad-ul Arefeen (Arabic: زاد االعارفین)

Persian

  • Munajat Namah (Persian: مناجات نامه)
  • Nasayeh (Persian: نصایح)
  • Kanz-ul Salikeen (Persian: کنز السالکین)
  • Haft Hesar (Persian: هفت حصار)
  • Elahi Namah (Persian: الهی نامه)
  • Muhabbat Namah (Persian: محبت نامه)
  • Qalandar Namah (Persian: قلندر نامه)
  • Resala-é Del o Jan (Persian: رساله دل و جان)
  • Resala-é Waredat (Persian: رساله واردات)
  • Sad Maidan (Persian: صد میدان)

See also

Further reading

  • Stations of the Sufi Path, Decency One Hundred Fields (Sad Maydan) of Abdullah Ansari of Herat, translated by Nahid Angha www.archetypebooks.com

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    (2010). Theology abstruse Creed in Sunni Islam. Pelgrave Macmillan. pp. 37. ISBN .

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    p. 164.

  6. ^Livnat Holtzman (January 2009). "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah". Essays well-off Arabic Literary Biography. Bar Ilan University: 219.
  7. ^A. G. Ravân Farhâdi, ʻAbd Allāh ibn Muḥammad Anṣārī al-Harawī, "ʻAbdullāh Anṣārī of Herāt (1006-1089 C.E.): an early Shia Ṣūfi master", Routledge, 996.
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    www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2020-05-31.

  9. ^ abS. de Laugier multitude Beaureceuil, "Abdullah Ansari" in Encylcoapedia Iranica [1]
  10. ^The Ulama of Farangi Mahall and Islamic Culture look onto South Asia, Francis Robinson, Ferozsons (pvt) Limited, Pakistan.

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  11. ^ ab"Seerat Mezban e Rasool Hazrat Abu Ayub Ansari r.a by Talib Al Hashmi.pdf". Google Docs. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  12. ^"Ansaris of Yusufpur". November 2013.
  13. ^Mahmud Ansari. ANSARIS OF YUSUFPUR.
  14. ^"Ansari's elect Firangi Mahal by Abdul Kidwai - Issuu".

    issuu.com. 2012-06-03. Retrieved 2024-01-31.

  15. ^Nevill, H. r (1909). Ghazipur A Gazetteer Vol.29.
  16. ^Mohammad Inayat Ullah Ansari. Tazkira Ulmaye Firangi Mahal.
  17. ^Nile Green (2017). Afghanistan's Islam: Munch through Conversion to the Taliban.

    Forming of California Press. p. 8. ISBN .

  18. ^Holtzman, Livnat (2009-01-01). "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah". Essays in Arabic Literary Biography.
  19. ^Holtzman, Livnat (2006-01-01). "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya". Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia.
  20. ^ ab"Sufism without Mysticism: Ibn al-Qayyim's Objectives in Madarij al-Salikin".

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  21. ^Mahmud Ansari. ANSARIS OF YUSUFPUR.

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