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Shaykh Abdullah ibn Saeed Baqushir Shafii Makki (1076 AH)

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Shaykh ʿAbdullāh Bāqushīr Makkī (d.1076 AH) was a renowned Islamic scholar, author and a shaykh of the Naqshbandī Sufi path in Makkah during eleventh century AH. He was the deputy and successor of Shaykh Tāj ad-Dīn Sambhalī ʿUthmānī (d.1051 AH), … Continue reading →

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Shaykh Taj ad-Din Sambhali Uthmani Naqshbandi (d.1051H)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Ḥaḍrat Shaykh Tāj ad-Dīn ʿUsmānī Sambhalī was a Sufi master of the Naqshbandī order and one of the chief deputies of Khwāja Muhammad al-Baqī Dahlawī quddisa sirruhū (971-1012 AH). His full name is Shaykh Tāj ad-Dīn ibn Zakariyā ibn Sultān … Continue reading →

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Amir al-Muminin Imam Hasan ibn Ali (49, Madinah)

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Commander of the Faithful Imām Ḥasan Mujtabā ʿalaihi as-salām was the elder grandson of the Prophet ṣall-Allāhu ʿalaihi wa-sallam from his youngest daughter Sayyida Fāṭima ʿalayhā as-salām, and son of Imām ʿAlī Murtaḍā ʿalayhi as-salām. He was born on 15 … Continue reading →

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Imam Muhammad ibn Hasan Askari (Madinah)

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

The twelfth Imām in the Golden Chain was Imām Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ʿalaihi as-salām, son and successor of Imām Ḥasan ʿAskarī. His epithet was Abu’l-Qāsim. He was born in the month of Shaʾbān 255 or 256 AH in Sāmarrā, Iraq. … Continue reading →

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Sayyida Sukayna bint al-Husayn (117 AH, Madinah)

Posted on February 5, 2015 by Talib Ghaffari

Sayyida (our mistress) Sukayna was a blessed daughter of our master Imām Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī ibn Abī-Ṭālib and Lady Rabāb, may Allāh be pleased with them all, and a princess of the family of the Prophet ṣall-Allāhu ʿalaihi wa-sallam. She … Continue reading →

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Sayyid Adam Bannuri: a great wali in the Naqshbandi Order

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Talib Ghaffari

Ḥaḍrat Sayyid Ādam Ḥusainī Bannūrī quddisa-sirruhū was one of the well known deputies of Imām Rabbānī Shaykh Aḥmad Fārūqī Sirhindī. His spiritual legacy still lives on in the form of many active branches of his Order spread across the world. … Continue reading →

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