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Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ Who are you ?” He replied: “ I am al-Sabtī ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd .” Later Ibn ‘ Arabī asked him: “ What was the reason of choosing Saturday for work ?” He replied: “ As God has made this universe in six days from Sunday to Friday, and he rested on Saturday, so I, as His servant worked on Saturday and devoted myself to worshipping Lord for the rest of the week .” In another glorious vision at Kaaba Ibn ‘ Arabī saw his forefathers and asked one of them his time, he replied he had been dead around forty thousand years ago.
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One of the Arabic translations, ‘ Kitab ila Aglooqan fi Shifa al Amraz ’, which is extant in the Library of Ibn Sina Academy of Medieval Medicine & Sciences, is regarded as a masterpiece of Galen's literary works.
The madh ' hab he observed was Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i, with similar customs as he had seen in coastal India especially among the Mappila Muslim, who were also the followers of Imam Al-Shafi ‘ i. Ibn Battuta then sailed to Malacca, Vietnam, the Philippines and finally Quanzhou in Fujian province, China.
( Reported by ‘ Abdur Razzaq, Ibn Jarir, and Ibn al-Mundhir )
In addition to appearing in Tabarī's Tafsīr, it is used in the tafsīrs of Muqātil, ‘ Abdu r-Razzāq and Ibn Kathir as well as the naskh of Abu Ja ‘ far an-Nahhās, the asbāb collection of Wāhidī and even the late-medieval as-Suyūtī's compilation al-Durr al-Manthūr fil-Tafsīr bil-Mathūr.
Savory and D. A. Agius, ‘ Ibn Sina on Primary Concepts in the Metaphysics of al-Shifa ’, in Logikos Islamikos, Toronto, Ont.
One of these reports is the hadeeth of Ibn ‘ Umar who said that the Messenger of God said: “ Be different from the mushrikeen: let your beards grow and trim your moustaches .”
He quoted a number of ahaadeeth as evidence, including the hadeeth of Ibn ‘ Umar quoted above, and the hadeeth of Zayd ibn Arqam in which the Prophet said: “ Whoever does not remove any of his moustache is not one of us .” Ibn Hazm said in al-Furoo ’: “ This is the way of our colleagues group of scholars .”
Imaam Ibn ‘ Abd al-Barr said in al-Tamheed: “ It is forbidden to shave the beard, and no one does this except men who are effeminate ” i. e., those who imitate women.
Ibn al-Nafis concluded that " the soul is related primarily neither to the spirit nor to any organ, but rather to the entire matter whose temperament is prepared to receive that soul " and he defined the soul as nothing other than " what a human indicates by saying ‘ I ’.
Later, the philosopher ' Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi ( 13th century ) tried to defend the Aristotelian conception of place in a treatise titled: Fi al-Radd ‘ ala Ibn al-Haytham fi al-makan ( A refutation of Ibn al-Haytham's place ), although his effort was admirable from a philosophical standpoint, it was unconvincing from the scientific and mathematical viewpoints.
Ibn ‘ Arabī ’ s dogmatic and intellectual training began in Seville, then the cultural and civilized center of Muslim Iberia, in 578 AH.
Ibn ‘ Arabī learned the recitation of the Qur ' an from the book of Al-Kafi in the seven different Qira ' at.
Ibn ‘ Arabī was about sixteen when he went into seclusion.
The meeting was very significant in that ibn ‘ Arabī answered his questions in ‘ Yes ’ and ‘ No .’ Ibn Rushd declared: I myself was of the opinion that spiritual knowledge without learning is possible, but never met anyone who had experienced it.
Ibn ‘ Arabī claimed to have met with Khidr three times over the course of his life The first occurred while ` Ibn Arabi was a youth in the service of the king, Shaykh al -‘ Uryabī.
Ibn ‘ Arabī said of their encounter:
In 1193 at the age of 28 Ibn ‘ Arabī visited Tunis to meet the disciples of Abu Madyan, notably ‘ Abd al -‘ Aziz al-Mahdawī and Abū Muḥammad ‘ Abdallāh al-Kinānī.
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* Muhyī al-Dīn Ibn al -‘ Arabī ( 1165 – 1240 ), Sufi master and author
After that Khiḍr conversed with Ibn ‘ Arabī in a language which is peculiar to him ( OY: III, 182 ).
Ibn ‘ Arabī had his third meeting with Khidr upon reaching Andalusia in late 590 AH.
Khidr performed a miracle to provide evidence for a skeptical companion of Ibn ‘ Arabī.
In the year 586, while visiting the dying saint al-Qabā ’ ili in Cordoba, Ibn ‘ Arabī had a vision in which he met all the Prophets from the time of Adam to Muḥammad in their spiritual reality.
Hud spoke to him and explained him the reason for their gathering: “ We came to visit Abū Muḥammad Makhlūf al-Qabā ’ ili ” ( Ibn ‘ Arabī, “ Rūh al-Quds ” 116 ).
However, according to a tradition among the direct disciples of Ibn ‘ Arabī, Hūd explained that the real reason for their gathering was to welcome him ( Ibn ‘ Arabī ) as the Seal of Muhammadan Sainthood ( khatm al-wilāya al-muḥammadiyya ), the supreme heir ( Addas 76 ).
Stephen Hartenstein writes in his book Unlimited Mercifier: “ It is from his return from Tunis, we find the first evidence of Ibn ‘ Arabī beginning to write ; later in 1194, he wrote one of his first major works, Mashāhid al-Asrār al-Qudusiyya ( Contemplation of the Holy Mysteries ) for the companions of al-Mahdawī and perhaps around the same time, in a space of four days, also composed the voluminous Tadbīrāt al-Ilāhiyya ( Divine Governance ) in Mawrūr for Shaykh Abū Muḥammad al-Mawrūrī .” ( Hirtenstein 91 )
The next five years were a time when Ibn ‘ Arabī entered into a different world.
As from this point the real genius of Ibn ‘ Arabī began to emerge and he became universal.
Shortly after his return to Andalusia from North Africa in 1194 AD, Ibn ‘ Arabī ’ s father died and within a few months his mother also died.
The third Sultan, Abū Yūsuf Ya ’ qūb al Manṣūr offered him a job but Ibn ‘ Arabī refused both the job and an offer to marry off his sisters and within days he left Seville heading toward Fes, where they settled.
In Fes Ibn ‘ Arabī met two men of remarkable spirituality, one of them was a sufi Pillar ( awtād ), his name was Ibn Ja ’ dūn.
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Ibn al-Athir ( 1166 – 1234 ) describes Alfonso as a tireless soldier who would sleep in his armor without benefit of cover, who responded when asked why he did not take his pleasure from one of the captives of Muslim chiefs, responded that the man devoted to war needs the companionship of men not women.
Ibn Habbaan narrates: The Messenger of Allah was asked about
He then reported that the preeminent Muhaddith Ibn Khuzaymah said: “ it is an invention of the heretics ” when once asked about it.
There is no direct injunction of the Quran regarding Waqf, but there is a hadith which says " Ibn Umar reported, Umer-Ibn-Al-Khitab got land in khyber, so he came to the prophet Muhammad ( peace be upon him ) and asked him to advice him about it.
The actual reason for this practice, i. e. sadl, being the dominant position in the school was when Saḥnūn asked Ibn Qāsim about the hadith of placing the right hand over the left mentioned in the Muwaṭṭah, Ibn Qāsim quoted Imam Mālik as saying, " I do not know of this practice ( i. e. qabḍ ) in the obligatory prayer ( i. e., I did not see the people of Medina practicing this ), however it is allowed in the supererogatory prayers if the standing has been prolonged ".
Malik's last words were related by one Isma ' il Ibn Abi Uways who said, " Malik became sick, so I asked some of our people about what he said at the time of his death.
When Harold Hoskins of the U. S State Department visited Ibn Saud in August 1943, he asked if the king would be willing to have an intermediary meet with Chaim Weizmann.
He had asked Ibn as-Sakkit to ask the Imam a question that he didn't think the Imam would could answer, so that al-Mutawakkil could embarrass and defame him before the theologians and jurisprudents he had invited.
Despite Ibn as-Sakkit's agreeance to the task, he actually ended up dying at the hands of al-Mutawakkil ; the caliph asked him " Are my sons more respectable than Hasan and Husayn?
Shah Jalal become so renowned that even the famed Ibn Battuta, whilst in Chittagong, was asked to change his plans and go to Sylhet to visit him.
Ibn Abbas narrates that the Angel Jibril once asked the Prophet: " Tell me what is Iman?
According to Ibn Ishaq, Abu Lubaba felt pity for the women and children of the tribe who were crying and when asked whether the Qurayza should surrender to Muhammad, advised them to do so.
The Aws, who wanted to honor their old alliance with the Qurayza, asked Muhammad to treat the Qurayza leniently as he had previously treated the Qaynuqa for the sake of Ibn Ubayy.
The Quraish looked at him intently and some of them asked, ‘ What is Ibn Umm Abd saying?
He commanded that learned questions be asked of this alim, ( Abdullah Ibn Masood ):
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