Awliya ul-Lah, Mystics and Saints

Hz.Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī (d. 386/996) The scholar who made the heart a discipline A documented life of the author of Qūt al-qulūb , with a critical account of his sources, writings, manuscript record, intellectual program, reception, and modern scholarship. Reader’s orientation Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī is famous, but his life is not richly documented. His importance rests less on a long chain of recoverable biographical events than on one vast book: Qūt al-qulūb , a synthesis of Qurʾān, prophetic report, early ascetic memory, ritual practice, moral psychology, and the emerging language of Sufism. The biography below therefore gives the book its proper weight while resisting the habit of turning later anecdotes into facts. [ 1 ] Quick facts Category Historical finding Full name Abū Ṭālib Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿAṭiyya al-Ḥārithī al-Makkī al-ʿAjamī Birth Unknown date; reported origin in Jibāl, western/central Iran Formation Mecca; later association with Basra and Baghdad Profile Trad...

Hz. Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ A Source-Critical Biography His life, hadith method, jurisprudence, ascetic practice, surviving texts, and modern scholarship أبو سفيان وكيع بن الجراح بن مليح الرؤاسي الكوفي Wakīʿ ibn al-Jarrāḥ (128 or 129–197 AH / approximately 745–812 CE) stood at a decisive point in the formation of Sunni hadith scholarship. Based in Kufa but active across the great teaching circuits of Iraq, the Hijaz, Syria, and Egypt, he transmitted the learning of al-Aʿmash, Sufyān al-Thawrī, Shuʿba ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Mālik ibn Anas, and other major authorities to the generation of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn, ʿAlī ibn al-Madīnī, and the Ibn Abī Shayba family. Through this network, much of the second/eighth-century Kufan tradition entered the canonical and near-canonical literature of the following century (al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-Kamāl, 30:462–84; al-Dhahabī, Siyar, 9:140–69; Özafşar 2013). His importance cannot be reduced to the familiar portrait of a prodigious memory. Wakīʿ was...