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Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

عبد القادر الجيلاني

1078 CE · 470 AH – 1166 CE · 561 AH

One of the major masters of Sunni Sufism, named after Gilan. He had a large influence on preaching and spiritual guidance.

Depth

At a glance

Roles
mystic · Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Life in time

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks Contemporaries: Ibn Khumays, al-Husayn ibn Nasr · al-Azdi al-Qurtubi · al-Azjani, Nasih al-Din · al-Baghdadi Malik al-Nuhat al-Hasan ibn Safi · Muhammad ibn Ali al-Ansari al-Jayyani

Spirituality and Sufism

Place in the story

  • Saint (as venerated)Tradition

Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

محيي الدين أبو محمد عبد القادر بن أبي صالح الجيلاني، من كبار مشايخ التصوف السني، ونُسب إلى جيلان. 1

أثره

كان له أثر كبير في الوعظ والإرشاد. 1 ولد سنة 470هـ (1078م) وتوفي سنة 561هـ (1166م). 1

ملاحظات للباحثين
  • لا تتجاوز البيانات هذا القدر؛ سيرته ومؤلفاته تحتاج إلى مصدر إضافي.

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Righteousness (birr)· Remembrance of God (dhikr)· Ghadab (anger)· Resolve for an act (hamm)· Envy (hasad)· Vain desire (hawa)· Haya' (modesty and shame)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abd-al-qadir-al-jilani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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People

Prophets, companions, scholars, rulers, scientists, poets, travelers: women and men who shaped the story. Related

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.