At a glance
- Roles
- mystic
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 2/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Spirituality and SufismScripture and its sciences
Summary
Ismail ibn Abdallah al-Salihi, a righteous shaykh who was lost in love of God. His brain dried out from much recitation of the Qur'an in the madrasa of Shaykh Abu Umar, and his reason left him. Some say he was enamoured and was made to be loved. In his ecstatic state he recited a great deal and spoke in fine phrases. People generally had great faith in him. He used to stay at the New Mosque and at the mosque of al-Afram in al-Salihiyya 1.
Ibn Tulun said that he recited to him a verse about contentment: the man who is healthy in body and secure in his livelihood, and who gives up his greed, is rich, even if he dies of hunger. He died on the nineteenth of Ramadan in the year 901 1.
People and things also explored
The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam· Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The seven ahruf· Hadith· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 420
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islam.museum contributors. “Isma'il ibn 'Abdallah al-Salihi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ismail-ibn-abdallah-al-salihi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-19.