Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Era
- The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Overview
Abu 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad b. al-Husayn al-Sulami al-Nisaburi, shaykh of the Sufis — author of Tabaqat al-sufiyya, Haqa'iq al-tafsir and others. 1
His death
Ibn al-Jawzi records him among the deaths of Sha'ban 412. 1
Connections
- Taught
- Abu'l-Hasan al-Zawzani
People and things also explored
Abu'l-Hasan al-Zawzani· 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)
Sources
- al-Muntazam fi Tarikh al-Muluk wa'l-Umam — Ibn al-Jawzi , j.8 p.348
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-sulami/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.