Hambal

Imam Ahmed bin Hambal (R.A)

(780-855 AD)

Theologian and Jurist Abu Abdullah Ahrned bin Muhammad bin Hambal was born at Baghdad in Rabi-al-Awwal 164 AH/780 AD. He was the founder of Hambaliya Code of Law. The central fact of Ibn Hambal’s life is the suffering to which he was subjected during the inquistion, known as al-niilinnl, ordered by tile caliph Ma’mun al-Rashid. Ahmed bin Hambal died and buried at Baghdad in 241 AH/855 AD. He wrote many books and his magnum opus is Musnad Ahuied bin Ranthal which was compiled by his son Abdullah after his death. It is a collection of 40 thousand traditions (Ahadith).

Shaikh Abu Turab Nakhshabi Al-Nasafi

(R.A)

(Died in 859 AD)

Askar bin al-Hasain Khorasani. Hasain means (ort, died in 245 AH/ 859 AD.

Imam Ali Naqi (RA)

(827-868 AD)

‘Abu al-Hassan Ali Naqi bin Imam Muhammad Taqi (R.A) was born in 212 AH/ 827 AD and died in 254 AH/868 AD at Samrah (Baghdad).

Imam Máhdi (R.A)

(Born in 870 AD)

Al-Mahdi, literary means “The Directed One”, hence, is fit to direct others, Guide, Leader, One who receive guidance from God. According to Sunni traditions, he has not yet appeared and will come in future near doomsday but Illina Ashri Shi’ahs (Twelvers) believe that he has aireadybom on 15 of Sha’ban 256 AH/870 AD in Samarra (Iraq) and appeared in the person of Abduflah Abul Qasim Muhammad bin Imam Hassan Askdri, the twelfth Imain as the hidden Imam (Jtnatn.-e-GJza’ib). Imam Mahdi is also known as iniani a!Mr (The Imam of the Period), Muhdi a!-Muntazar or Iniani al—Muntazar (The Awaited Imam), the Sahib a?— Zannni (The Lord of the Age).

Yahya bin Mo’adh

(Died in 258 AH/871 AD)

Abu Zakariya ihn Mo’adh al-Razi, a disciple of Ihn Karram, left his native town of Rayy and liyed for a time in Balkh, afterwards proceeding to Nishapur where he died in 258 AH/871 AD. A certain number

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Imam Hassan Askari (R.A)

(846-874 AD)

Abu Muhammad Hassan bin Imam Au Naqi (R.A). He was born in 232 Al-l/ 846 AD and died in 260 AH/874 AD at Samrah near Baghdad.

Ba Yazid Bistami (R.A)

(746-877 AD)

Abu Yazjd Taifur bin isa bin Sorushan al-Bistami was born in 128 AH/746 AD in Bistam in northeastern Persia (Iran), the grandson of a Zoroas.trian; there he died in 261 AFI/874 or 264 AH/877 AD, and his mausoleum still stands. The founder of the ecstatic (“drunken”) school of Sufism, he is famous for the boldness of his expression of the mystic’s complete absorption into the Godhead.

Ibn-e-Majah (R.A)

(824-886 AD)

Muslim compiler of one of the collection of ahadith, Ahu Ahdullah Muhammad bin Yazid bin Ahdullah was born at Qazwin (Iran) in 209 AH/824 AD and was died in 273 AH/ 886 AD. Majah was the epithet of his father. He was scholar of Science of Hadith and compiled a collection of 4000 ahadiths entitled “Sunan-e-lbn-Majfth” which is included in Siluiltu ‘s-SlUnk, or “six correct” books of ahadith,

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Sufi teacher, who influenced Husayn bin Mansur al-Hallaj, and who laid the foundations of much of the development of Sufism.AbO ‘1-Qasim al-Jonaid bin Muhammad al-Khazzaz al-Nehawandi was born in 215 AH/817 AD. Son of a glassmerchant (alQawariri) and nephew of Sari al-Saqati, close associate of al-Mohasebi, was the greatest exponent of the ‘sober’ school of Sufismand elaborated a theosophical doctrine which determined the whole course of orthodox mysticism in Islam. The head of a large and influential scho who insisted that Shari’at (Religious Law) is supreme over Tariqat (Sufi experience); he died in Baghdad in 298AH/910 AD.