Abu Ishaq Shami
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Abu Ishaq Shami (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order [1] because he was the person in the Chishti silsila (chain, or religious lineage) who was the first to live in Chisht.[2] The name Shami implies he came from Syria or even from Damascus (ash-Sham). He died in Damascus and lies buried on Mount Qasiyun, August 2011, where later on also Ibn Arabi was buried.
Looking at the date of his death it is considered[by whom?] that the Chishti Order is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, existing Sufi order. However, like the Chishtiyya, most of the Sufi orders (for instance, the Qadiriyyah, the Suhrawardiyyah and the Naqshbandiyyah) claim a silsila starting with the Prophet Muhammad himself.
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[edit] Masters and students
Abu Ishaq Shami's teacher was Shaikh Ilw Mumshad Dinwari, whose own teacher was Abu Hubairah Basri, a disciple of Huzaifah Al-Mar'ashi who was in turn a disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham. Abu Ishaq Shami may had many disciples, but Abu Ahmad Abdal was the one through whom the silsila to the Chishtiyyah of South Asia continued.[3]
[edit] Quotes
Some of Abu Ishaq Shami's sayings are:
- Starvation excels all in bliss.
- The worldly people are impure while the dervishes are pure in their souls. These two different natures cannot therefore mingle.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Jackson, Roy (2011). Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic State. Routledge. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-415-47411-5.
- ^ Karamustafa, Ahmet T. (2011). University of California Press. University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-520-25268-4.
- ^ Ernst, Carl W. (2002). Sufi martyrs of love: the Chishti Order in South Asia and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 14. ISBN 1-4039-6-26-7.
- ^ Excerpt taken from chishti.ru Chishti order
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