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Abu Ya'qub al-Hamadhani

أبو يعقوب الهمذاني

c. September 1140 CE · Rabi' I 535 AH

Marw

Abu Ya'qub Yusuf ibn Ayyub of Hamadhan, shaykh of the Sufis at Marw; he read fiqh in Baghdad under Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, heard hadith copiously, and in 505 began preaching at the Nizamiyya; d. Rabi' I aged ninety-four 1.

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Roles
sufi · Scholar
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mughith al-Harbi · Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Razzaq ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani · Abd al-Wahhab al-Shirazi · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani

Overview

Abu Ya'qub Yusuf b. Ayyub al-Hamadhani, shaykh of the sufis at Marw; he read fiqh at Baghdad under Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi and heard much hadith, and in 505 was enrolled for preaching at the Nizamiyya. He died in Rabi' I at ninety-four. 1

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Studied under
Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi
Died in
Marw

People and things also explored

al-Junayd's Khurasan and the Turkish War· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· The Founding of the Nizamiyya in Baghdad· The Strife over Declaring the Hanbalis Unbelievers and the Looting of the Nizamiyya Market· The al-Qushayri fitna between the Hanbalis and the Ash'aris in Baghdad· The Killing of Qutayba ibn Muslim· The Marw Sulh· ابن السمعاني

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 587-588
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al-Junayd's Khurasan and the Turkish War

In 112h Hisham gave Khurasan to al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri; his vanguard caught the Khaqan's son drunk hunting — sent to Hisham — and he fought on till the Turks were driven off. Reinforced by Amr ibn Muslim with ten thousand Basrans, Abd al-Rahman ibn Nu'aym with ten thousand Kufans, thirty thousand spears, thirty thousand shields, and an open stipend for fifteen thousand men, his raids prospered — while the Hashimi da'is spread and grew strong in his rule. He died at Marw; Hisham then gave Khurasan to Asim ibn Abdallah al-Hilali. Abu Ubayda notes the Tukharistan districts al-Junayd had breached were returned to their sulh.