Isa al-Yunini, Sallab al-Ajwal

عيسى اليونيني سلاب الأجوال

c. November 1256 CE · Dhu al-Qa'da 654 AH

The companion-ascetic of Abdallah al-Yunini (d. Dhu al-Qa'da 654) — so sharp-tempered they called him Sallab al-Ajwal; buried at his zawiya in Yunin 1.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abagha Khan · Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti · Abu Bakr ibn Qawam al-Balisi · Abu Shama al-Dimashqi · Afif al-Din al-Tilimsani

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    sunni-hanbali (transmitted)

    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Summary

    'Isa al-Yunini the ascetic known as Sallab al-Ajwal, companion of Shaykh 'Abdallah al-Yunini; a worshipping, abstinent man of fasting and night prayer, fearful and devout, wholly given over to God, severed of companions, possessed of spiritual states and sincerity — but sharp of soul, hence named Sallab al-Ajwal; coarse of living in dress and food; he died and was buried at his zawiya in Yunin. 1

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    Abdallah al-Yunini

    People and things also explored

    Shaykh al-Islam al-Yunini· Muhammad b. Abdallah al-Yunini· al-Shaykh Sultan al-Ba'labakki· Baalbek· Abdallah al-Yunini

    Sources

    1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 274
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    Shaykh al-Islam al-Yunini

    The great Hanbali hafiz of Baalbek (b. 572, d. night of 19 Ramadan 657) — raised by Abdallah 'Lion of Syria', whose daughter he wed; kings kissed his hand; per his son the historian Qutb al-Din Musa he held the Jam' bayn al-Sahihayn and most of Ahmad's Musnad, Sahih Muslim in four months, a sura in a day — seventy-plus hadith from a single sitting; 'as God bound the prophets to show miracles, He bound the saints to hide karamat'.