Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi

Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi
Mystic, Khādimu-sh Sharī’ah [Guardian of the Sacred Law], Sāliku-t Tarīqah [Wayfarer of the Spiritual Path], Wāqifu-l Haqīqah [Unveiler of Divine Mysteries]
Born 22 Rajab 227 AH/May 842 CE[1]
Yemen
Died 9 Jamadi-ul-Akhir 425 AH/May 1034 CE
Baghdad, Iraq
Venerated in Islam
Major shrine Baghdad, Iraq

Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi (227–425 AH / 842–1034 CE) Abu-l Fadl ‘Abdul Wāhid b. ‘Abdu-l ‘Azīz b. Hārith b. Asad at-Tamīmī or Abdul Wahid Tamimi (Arabic: ابوالفضل عبد الواحد تمیمی‎) was a 9th century saint who belonged to the Junaidia order. He was the son and disciple of Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad al-Tamimi. He was an ardent worshipper and ascetic.[2]

Biography

Not many details about his early life are known except that he was born in Yemen which is why he was often regarded as "Yemeni". His name was Abdul Wahid and he was the son of Shaikh Abdul Aziz Tamimi bin Haris bin Asad. ‘Tamimi’ was a part of his name as his family belonged to the tribe al-Tamimi[3] of Arabia. He followed the Hanafi school of thought. [4][5][6]

Spiritual career

Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi is often associated with Abu Bakr Shibli[7] due to his character. This is probably because he gained beneficence from Abu Bakr Shibli although he took Bayatat the hands of his father Abdul Aziz bin Haris bin Asad al-Tamimi from whom he was given the Sufi khirqa. Muhaddith Shah Waliullah Dehlawi is reported to have said, “Abdul Wahid at-Tamimi wore the Khirqa from both ‘Abdul Aziz al-Tamimi and Abu Bakr Shibli. This is reflected in many of the authentic chains of spiritual transmission.” Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi spent most of his life guiding people often while travelling. Amongst his various disciples, his prominent khalifah was Mohammad Yousaf Abu-al-Farrah Turtoosi also noted in various books.[8][9]

Spiritual Lineage

Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid al-Tamimi‘s saintly lineage of Faqr was given to him through his father and Murshid Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad al-Tamimi in the following order: [10][11]

  1. Muhammad Sall Allahu Alayhi Wa alihi Wasallam
  2. 'Alī bin Abī Ṭālib
  3. al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
  4. Habib al Ajami
  5. Dawud Tai
  6. Maruf Karkhi
  7. Sirri Saqti
  8. Junaid Baghdadi, the founder of Junaidia silsila
  9. Abu Bakr Shibli
  10. Abdul Aziz bin Hars bin Asad Yemeni Tamimi
  11. Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni al-Tamimi

Abdul Wahid Tamimi conferred upon his khilafat to Mohammad Yousaf Abu al-Farah Tartusi and he continued the order.

Illness and death

Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi died on 9th Jamadi-ul-Akhir 425 AH which is 1st May 1034 CE.[1] He was buried in the mausoleum of Imam Ahmad b. Hanbal in Baghdad. This was during the Abbasid Caliphate.[12]

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References

  1. 1 2 Shah Mohammad Hasan Rampuri. Tawareekh Aina e Tasawuf. Printed in 1311, India, 2nd Edition printed in 1391 Kasur, Pakistan.
  2. ↑ Abdul Razzaq Al-Kailani. Shaikh Abdul Qadir Jilani. PT Mizan Publications. p. 119. ISBN 978-6-028-23638-6.
  3. ↑ Daphna Ephrat. A Learned Society in the Period of Transition:The Sunni Ulama of Eleventh Century Baghdad. SUNY Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-0-791-44645-4.
  4. ↑ Gregory Mack, Jurisprudence, in Gerhard Böwering et al (2012), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0691134840, p. 289
  5. ↑ Sunnite Encyclopedia Britannica (2014)
  6. ↑ Kister, M. J (November 1965). "Mecca and Tamīm (Aspects of Their Relations)". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 8 (2): 113–163. doi:10.2307/3595962. JSTOR 3595962.
  7. ↑ Leonard Lewisohn, "The Heritage of Sufism: Classical Persian Sufism from its origins to Rumi", the University of Michigan, 1999. pg 53: "Two Persian Sufis - Mansur Hallaj and Abu Bakr Shibli (d. 945), the latter from Samarqand by origin but born origin in Baghdad"
  8. ↑ "Abdul Wahid bin Abdul Aziz Tamimi - Biography".
  9. ↑ Prince Darashikhoh, “Safina tul-Auliya”
  10. ↑ Sult̤ān Bāhū (1998). Death Before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-92046-0.
  11. ↑ Sarwari Qadiri Order. India: General Books LLC. ISBN 9781158473861.
  12. ↑ "Abdul Wahid bin Abdul Aziz Tamimi - Biography".
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