Abul Abbas Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abdul-Karim Qassab Amoli also known as ''Abul Abbas Qassab Amoli'' ( fa, ابوالعباس قصاب آملی) was an 11th-century Iranian
Sufi mystic. Coming from
Tabaristan
Tabaristan or Tabarestan ( fa, طبرستان, Ṭabarestān, or mzn, تبرستون, Tabarestun, ultimately from Middle Persian: , ''Tapur(i)stān''), was the name applied to a mountainous region located on the Caspian coast of northern Iran. ...
, he was of the tribe of Javan and his father was a butcher. Qassab Amoli had a monastery and a school in Amol. Qassab Amoli was a master of
Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani
Abu 'l-Hassan Ali ibn Ahmad (or ibn Jaʻfar) ibn Salmān al-Kharaqāni ( fa, شیخ ابوالحسن خرقانی) is one of the master Sufis of Islam. He was born in 963 (352 Hijri year) from PersianS.H. Nasr, "Iran" in History of Humanity: From ...
and
Abu Said Abul-Khayr.
Suhrawardi, it says about her is considered among the most important scholars of history.
Abu’l-‘Abbas al-Qassab al-Amuli / British Library
/ref>Attar of Nishapur
Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c. 1145 – c. 1221; fa, ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn () and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur (, Attar means apothecary), was a PersianRitter, H. ...
has mentioned in Tazkirat al-Awliya
''Tazkirat al-Awliyā'' ( fa, تذکرةالاولیا or , lit. "Biographies of the Saints")variant transliterations: Tazkirat al-Awliyā`, Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya , Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc., is a hagiographic collection of ninety- ...
, he was a miracle in seeing the defects of the soul, and he had a great sign of discipline, dignity and sincerity Amoli, as stated in Nafahat al-Nas, he apparently first went to Baghdad and met Abu Bakr al-Shibli
Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli (; 861–946) was an important Sufi of Persian descent, and a disciple of Junayd Baghdadi. He followed the Maliki school of jurisprudence (fiqh).
Biography
Abu Bakr Shibli was born in Samarra, although his family was of ...
, and from there he went to Mecca, from Mecca
Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...
to Medina
Medina,, ', "the radiant city"; or , ', (), "the city" officially Al Madinah Al Munawwarah (, , Turkish: Medine-i Münevvere) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (, ), is the second-holiest city in Islam, and the capital of the ...
and from there to Bait al-Maqdis.
References
External links
His biography in Book
The Status of Abu Al-Abbas Qassab Amuli
Sufi mystics
Iranian Sufis
10th-century Iranian people
11th-century Iranian people
People from Amol
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