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al-Husayn al-Ba'alawi, shaykh of Hadramawt

الحسين البعلوي شيخ حضرموت

c. June 1461 CE · Ramadan 865 AH

Shaykh al-Husayn ibn 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ba'alawi, 'shaykh of the Hadramawt lands'; died Ramadan 865 1.

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At a glance

Roles
mystic
Era
The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
Region
Arabia
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Life in time

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · 'Abd al-Haqq al-Sunbati · Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Abu Zayyan Muhammad V, Marinid Sultan

Spirituality and Sufism

Overview

Shaykh al-Husayn b. 'Abd al-Rahman al-Ba'alawi, "shaykh of the Hadramawt lands"; he died in the month of Ramadan 865 1.

People and things also explored

Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)· Certainty and its degrees (yaqin)

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 307
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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.