Mazar
Mubarak Moazzin-e-Rasool, Hazrat Bilal Al Habashy (May Allah be pleased with him)
in the Bab al-Saghir Cemetery to the south of the old city in Damascus, Syria.
Mazar
of great Sufi Shaikh-e-Akbar Hazrat Muhyyuddin Ibn Arabi encased in glass in the
lower level of a mosque at the bottom of Mount Qasyun in Damascus. There are Mazarat
of other Aulia Allah.
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Salahuddin
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1. Ibrahim Bin Adham
was popularly known as Abu Ben Adhem. His full name was
Sultan Ibrahim bin Adham, Bin Mansur al-Balkhi al- Ijli, Abu Ishaq.His
Life He was born in Balkh on the east of Khurasan. His family was from the Kufa
and were descendants of the second Caliph Omar bin Khattab. He was the king of
Balkh but abandoned the throne to become a Sufi saint. According to the Arabic
and Persian sources like al- Bukhari ( d. 870) and many others, Ibrahim Bin Adham
received a warning from God and abdicated his throne to take up the ascetic life
in Syria. He died in 777-8 and is believed to be buried in Syrian town of Jabala.
His Legend His legend enlarged gradually from al-Bukhari to Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani
and after its full formation around the eleventh century, expanded to central
Asia under the Mongols, Anatolia under the Ottoman rule, North India in the age
of the Tughluqids, and Malaysia during the seventeenth century as revealed in
the works by R. Jones.
His
Clans Although his children continue to rule Central Asia, the kingdom came to
an end after Farrukh Shah Kabuli's son was killed fighting Mongols and the uprooted
family moved East to Punjab (now part of Pakistan and then to India and up to
Bangladesh. Baba Farid Ganj Shakar the famous Punjabi poet and Sufi Saint was
one of his descendants. Adhamies of South Asia call themselves Farooqi. His
Masters and Students His master was Fudhail Bin Iyadh whose master was Abdul Waahid
Bin Zaid whose master was Hasan al-Basri. His successor was Huzaifah Al-Mar’ashi..
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2. Abu Ishaq Shami .
A Sufi Sheikh Abu Ishaq Shami is one of the first among the sufi order, namely
Chishti Order to call himself Chisti. This indicates that he belongs to the Chishti
Order.The name Shami implies he came from Syria or even from Damascus (ash-Sham).
Abu Ishaq Shami is supposedly to have met a Sufi who directed him to settle in
Chisht,and acccordingly he is known as Abu Ishaq Shami Chishti. He died in 940
C.E. in Damascus and lies buried on Mount Qasiyun, where later on also Ibn al-Arabi
was buried. Looking at the date of his death it is considered that the Chishti
Order is one of the oldest, if not the oldest now still existing sufi order. However
according to most of the Sufi orders it is considered that their orginations are
directly from the time period of the Prophet Mohammad and the Prophet him self.
His Masters and Students
Shaikh Ilw Mumshad Dinwari was his Master. He may had many Khalifa's but Abu Ahmad
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3.
Moulana Sheikh Abdulah Faiz Dhagistani... click
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Sayyid Muhammad Amin ibn Sayyid Úmar ibn Sayyid Ábd al-Áziz
ibn Sayyid
Ahmed ibn Sayyid Ábd ar-Rahim ibn Sayyid Najmuddin ibn Sayyid Muhammad
Salahuddin widely known as ‘Ibn Áabidin’ is praised in these
words: the prominent, praiseworthy and noble scholar; an ocean of knowledge; the
master scholar [jahbadh]; the great jurist [faqih]; the genius; the finest among
the later scholars and the last of the research scholars; one with an exalted
ancestry [hasib,nasib]; the erudite Imam; the litterateur.
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The Syrian city of
Aleppo is famous for its rich history of Islamic scholarship; hence, it is often
referred to as ‘the city of scholars’. Aleppo is the cradle of many
pious and leading scholars of Islam. Amongst them was the Friend and Gnostic of
Allah `azza wa-jall, `Allama `Abdallah Sirajuddin al-Husayni radiallahu `anhu,
an extraordinary scholar who dedicated his entire life to the service of Islam. For
his full biography, click on his name below and repeat this on the website: Shaykh
`Abdallah Sirajuddin
The light of Aleppo Click
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