At a glance
- Roles
- mystic · Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Arabia · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
sufi (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Al-Harfush, author of the Kitab al-harfush on preaching; a learned, abstemious sufi preacher famed for goodness — the people held exceeding faith in him and he would foretell things that came to pass as he said; he lived beside the Haram at Mecca over thirty years and died at the start of 801. 1
Connections
- Died in
- Mecca
People and things also explored
Dar al-Nadwa· The Kaaba· Al-Masjid Al-Haram· Idol worship in the Jahiliyya and its rites· The offices of Quraysh at Mecca· Restoration of the Abbasid Khutba in the Two Harams in 479· Abu Jahl's plan to crush the Prophet's head with a stone· Abu Talib gathers Banu Hashim and Banu al-Muttalib
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 15
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Harfush, author of the wa'z book”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-harfush/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-23.