Abu Hamza al-Sufi al-Baghdadi

Abu Hamza al-Sufi al-Baghdadi, one of the senior Sufi shaykhs of the third century. He spoke in the Rusafa mosque and then in the city mosque, and he was a scholar of the readings, especially the reading of Abu Amr. ¹.

He sat with Ahmad ibn Hanbal, and when a question was put to Ahmad he would say: "What do you say about it, O Sufi?" He also sat with Bishr ibn al-Harith, Abu Nasr al-Tammar and Sarri al-Saqati, and travelled with Abu Turab al-Nakhshabi. ¹.

It is related of him that he fell into a well, and when people came to fill it in, he regarded it as an act of trust in God not to speak. Ibn al-Jawzi notes that his silence in such a case contravenes the Sharia, and it was said that the one who fell into the well was Abu Hamza al-Khurasani, not the Baghdadi. ¹.