Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī (952–1020 CE/341–410
AH) Abd al-Wāḥid b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. Asad al-Tamīmī or Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī ( ar, ابوالفضل عبد الواحد تمیمی) was a 10th century Muslim saint who belonged to the
Junaidia order. He was the son and disciple of
Abu al-Hasan al-Tamimi. He was an ardent worshipper and ascetic.
Not many details about his early life are known except that his family was from
Yemen
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. His family belonged to the Arabian
al-Tamimi tribe. He followed the
Hanafi
The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named a ...
school of thought.
Works
Among his most celebrated works is ''I'tiqad al-Imam al-Mubajjal
Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...
'' (also known as ''I'tiqad al-Imam al-Munabbal Abi 'Abd Allah Ahmad ibn Hanbal'').
Spiritual career
Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi is often associated with
Abu Bakr Shibli, a sufi of Persian descent. This is probably because he looked to
Abu Bakr Shibli's teachings for guidance although he gave
Bayatat (oath of allegiance) to his father Abdul Aziz bin Harith bin Asad
al-Tamimi from whom he was given the Sufi
khirqa
The khirqa is the initiatory cloak of the Sufi chain of spirituality, with which esoteric knowledge and barakah is passed from the Murshid or the Shaikh to the aspirant murid. The khirqa initiates an aspirant into the silsilah, the chain or lineage ...
(the initiatory cloak of the
Sufi chain of spirituality). Muhaddith
Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
Quṭb-ud-Dīn Aḥmad Walīullāh Ibn ʿAbd-ur-Raḥīm Ibn Wajīh-ud-Dīn Ibn Muʿaẓẓam Ibn Manṣūr Al-ʿUmarī Ad-Dehlawī ( ar, ; 1703–1762), commonly known as Shāh Walīullāh Dehlawī (also Shah Wali Allah), was an Islamic ...
is reported to have said, “Abdul Wahid at-Tamimi wore the khirqa from both ‘Abdul Aziz al-Tamimi and Abu Bakr Shibli. This is reflected in many of the authentic chains of spiritual transmission.” Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi spent most of his life guiding people often while travelling . Amongst his various disciples, his prominent khalifah (successor) was Mohammad Yousaf Abu-al-Farrah Turtoosi.
Spiritual Lineage
Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid
al-Tamimi's saintly lineage of Faqr was given to him through his father and
Murshid
''Murshid'' ( ar, مرشد) is Arabic for "guide" or "teacher", derived from the root ''r-sh-d'', with the basic meaning of having integrity, being sensible, mature. Particularly in Sufism it refers to a spiritual guide. The term is frequently use ...
Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad
al-Tamimi in the following order:
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Muhammad
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'Alī bin Abī Ṭālib
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al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
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Habib al Ajami
Habib ibn Muhammad al-‘Ajami al-Basri ( ar, حبيب بن محمد العجمي البصري) known also as Habib al-Ajami () and Habib al-Farsi () was a Muslim Sufi mystic, saint, and traditionalist of Persian descent. Different dates for h ...
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Dawud Tai
Abu Sulaiman Dawud ibn Nusair al-Tā'ī, () usually referred to as Dawud Tā'ī, (died between 776 and 783 CE) was an Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic. He resided in Kufa and was a prominent student of Abu Hanifa. His disciples included many inf ...
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Maruf Karkhi
Maʿrūf Karkhī ( fa, معروف کرخی), known also by his full name Abū Maḥfūẓ Maʿrūf Ibn Firūz al-Karkhī, was a Sufi Muslim saint.
Biography
Maruf was born in the district of Wasit or Karkh in Baghdad. His father's name was Fi ...
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Sirri Saqti
Abū al-Ḥasan Sarī (al-Sirrī) b. al-Mughallis al-Saqaṭī (867CE) also known as Sirri Saqti (Arabic:سری سقطی) was one of the early Muslim Sufi saints of Baghdad. He was one of the most influential students of Maruf Karkhi and one o ...
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Junaid Baghdadi
Junayd of Baghdad (; 830–910) was a Persian mystic and one of the most famous of the early Islamic saints. He is a central figure in the spiritual lineage of many Sufi orders.
Junayd taught in Baghdad throughout his lifetime and was an impo ...
, the founder of Junaidia
silsila
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Abu Bakr Shibli
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ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. Asad al-Tamimi
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Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī
Abdul Wahid Tamimi conferred his khilafat (successor to Muhammad) to
Mohammad Yousaf Abu al-Faraj Tarasusi who continued the order.
Titles
* Khādim-ush-Sharī’ah (Guardian of the Sacred Law)
* Sālik-ut-Tarīqah (Wayfarer of the Spiritual Path)
* Wāqif-ul-Haqīqah (Unveiler of Divine Mysteries)
Death
Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi died in 1020
CE.
He was buried in the mausoleum of Imam Ahmad b.
Hanbal
Ahmad ibn Hanbal al-Dhuhli ( ar, أَحْمَد بْن حَنْبَل الذهلي, translit=Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal al-Dhuhlī; November 780 – 2 August 855 CE/164–241 AH), was a Muslim jurist, theologian, ascetic, hadith traditionist, and ...
in
Baghdad
Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon. I ...
.
See also
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al-Tamimi
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Abu al-Hasan al-Tamimi
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Abu Bakr Shibli
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Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi
Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi ( ar, ابوسعیدمبارک مخزومی), known also as Mubarak bin Ali Makhzoomi and Abu Saeed and Abu Sa'd al-Mubarak (rarely known as Qazi Abu Sa'd al-Mubarak al-Mukharrimi) was a Sufi saint as well as a Musli ...
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List of Yemenis
Famous or important Yemenis include:
Yemeni early diaspora
* Ghassanids, tribes consisting of more than 50 families that migrated north to the Levant
* Lakhmids
* Banu Judham
* Kinda (tribe), Kindah
* Sakasic, were a Himyarite tribe that settled ...
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List of famous Sufis
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List of Sufi saints
Sufi saints or Wali ( ar, ولي, plural ʾawliyāʾ أولياء) played an instrumental role in spreading Islam throughout the world. In the traditional Islamic view, a saint is portrayed as someone "marked by pecialdivine favor ... ndhol ...
References
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Yemeni Sufi saints
9th-century Yemeni people
9th-century Arabs
952 births
1034 deaths