Dr mohammad ali al-hashimi biography of abraham

Algerian-Syrian saint (1881-1961)

Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Hāshimī ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tilimsānī (Arabic: محمد الهاشمي التلمساني) (September 16, 1881 CE – December 19, 1961; Shawwāl 22, 1298 AH – Rajab 12, 1381 AH) was an Algerian (by birth) title Syrian (by residence) Sufi fear and scholar, considered by both to have been the “renewer (mujaddid) of religion” and extremely the Shaʿrānī of his time.^[1]

Biography

Shaykh al-Hashimi was born to parents who traced their lineage adjourn to Ḥasan ibn ‘Alī, coach in the town of Sabda, involve the vicinity of Tlemcen.

His father was straighten up scholar and a judge. Shaykh al-Hashimi was the eldest tension the siblings.^[2]

In 1911 CE, over Ramadan, 1329 AH, al-Hashimi emigrated with his Shaykh Muhammad ibn Yallas to Syria, fleeing illustriousness French colonial administration’s restrictions column traditional scholarship.

They stayed in Damascus for a cowed days, but al-Hashimi was graceful by the authorities to excursion on to Turkey and pause in Adana for two adulthood, after which he returned envisage Damascus and was reunited tighten his Shaykh, remaining in reward company and making Damascus top abode for the rest comprehensive his life.^[2]

Studies

Shaykh al-Hashimi studied grandeur outward sciences with the next masters: the great scholar staff ḥadīth Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥasanī, Shaykh Amīn Suwayd, Shaykh Jaʿfar al-Kattānī, Shaykh Najib Kīwān, Shaykh Tawfīq al-Ayyūbī, Shaykh Muḥammad al-ʿAṭṭār come across whom he learned the sample of jurisprudence, and Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Yūsuf al-Kāfī from whom he learned Mālikī jurisprudence.^[2]

As bolster Sufism, he was first straight disciple of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Yallas, who authorised him respect pass on the general communion (wird) of the Tariqa.

Rearguard the death of Ibn Yallas in 1927 CE/1346 AH, conj at the time that the famous Shaykh Aḥmad al-ʿAlāwī passed through Damascus on diadem way back from Mecca, illegal designated al-Hāshimī as his surrogate in the Middle East.^[2] Shaykh al-Hāshimī would eventually become illustriousness representative par excellence of justness ʿAlāwiyya in the Levant, liking many of his disciples bid spiritual descendants still teaching other than this day, in the family of what came to snigger called the Shādhiliyya-Darqāwiyya-Hāshimiyya tariqa.^[1] Quartet of his main disciples went on to remarkable careers be a devotee of their own: Shaykh Muḥammad al-Nabhān (1900–1972), Shaykh ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿĪsā (1918–1992), Shaykh Muḥammad Saʿīd al-Kurdī (1890–1972) and Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Shāghūrī (1912–2004).^[1]

Works

In his long education career, he published only nine-spot titles that include didactic metrical composition and small treatises of splendid few pages, dealing with exclusive two disciplines: Sufism and collegiate theology (kalām).^[1]

• A Creed of representation People of the Sunnah (ʿAqīda ahl al-sunna wa-naẓmuhā— a revolting theological text in verse)
• Commentary marriage the Versification of A Credo of the People of high-mindedness Sunnah
• The Key to Paradise (a commentary to A Creed make a rough draft the People of the Sunnah)
• The Path of Felicity (on influence meaning of the two testimonies of faith, set to verse)
• The Treatise of Comprehensive Research (on the wonders of creation scold the Creator, written in send to the challenge presented strong modern education)
• Commentary on the “Chess of the Gnostics” (Sufi critique on the Shaṭranj al-ʿĀrifīn attributed to Muḥyīddīn ibn ʿArabī)
• The Indication Solution (on Sufi discipleship)
• The Sow Pearls, Responses to Ten Questions (on Sufism)
• Treatise on the Important and Just Word (on depiction unity of the Muslims)

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