Abu al-Fadl al-Tamimi

Abu al-Fadl al-Tamimi
Mystic, Khādimu-sh Sharī’ah [Guardian of the Sacred Law], Sāliku-t Tarīqah [Wayfarer of the Spiritual Path], Wāqifu-l Haqīqah [Unveiler of Divine Mysteries]
Born952 CE/341 AH[1]
Baghdad
Died1020 CE/410 AH
Baghdad, Iraq
Venerated inIslam
Preceded byʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. al-Ḥārith b. Asad
Succeeded byMohammad Yousuf Abū al-Faraj al-Ṭarasūsī
Major shrineBaghdad, Iraq
InfluencesAhmad ibn Hanbal
Major worksI'tiqad al-Imam al-Mubajjal Ahmad ibn Hanbal

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 (Arabic: أبو الفضل التميمي) 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.[2] Not many details about his early life are known except that his family was from Yemen. His family belonged to the Arabian al-Tamimi[3] tribe. He followed the Hanbali school of thought.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Ahmad Pakatchi. ""Abū al-Faḍl al-Tamīmī"".
  2. ^ Abdul Razzaq Al-Kailani. Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. PT Mizan Publications. p. 119. ISBN 978-6-028-23638-6.
  3. ^ Daphna Ephrat (3 August 2000). A Learned Society in the Period of Transition:The Sunni Ulama of Eleventh Century Baghdad. SUNY Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-791-44645-4.
  4. ^ Gregory Mack, Jurisprudence, in Gerhard Böwering et al (2012), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691134840, p. 289
  5. ^ Sunnite Encyclopædia Britannica (2014)
  6. ^ Kister, M. J (November 1965). "Mecca and Tamīm (Aspects of Their Relations)". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 8 (2): 113–163. doi:10.2307/3595962. JSTOR 3595962.