Burhan al-Din al-Iqsara'i al-Muwahhibi

Burhan al-Din Abu al-Tayyib Ibrahim ibn Mahmud ibn Ahmad ibn Hasan al-Iqsara'i, originally from Aksaray and a Cairene Shafii. He is called al-Muwahhibi after Abu al-Mawahib al-Tunisi, who gave him his initiation. He studied some branches of learning with the scholars of his age, including al-Sakhawi, and kept company with the perfect shaykh Abu al-Futuh Muhammad, known as Ibn al-Maghribi, and took up Sufism. He then received permission from the great saint Abu al-Mawahib Muhammad al-Tunisi, and through him the blessings of that path came to him and its showers poured into his heart ¹.

Jar Allah ibn Fahd reports that this man stayed in Mecca in the year 904 and lived there for three years. There he wrote a commentary on the Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah, which he called "Ahkam al-Hikam li-Sharh al-Hikam", a commentary on Ibn Ata Allah's treatise "Usul Muqaddimat al-Wusul", a commentary on the phrase "O our Lord, O One, O Unique", and a commentary on the Sanusi creed of the fundamentals of religion. He also had a collection of verse, several treatises, seven sections of writing and works on the visitation of the Prophet ﷺ's tomb, and others. People took Sufism from him. He died on the night of Thursday, the eighteenth of Jumada al-Akhira in the year 908 ¹.