Shaqiq al-Balkhi

Shaqiq al-Balkhi
Shaqiq al-Balkhi
Born	8th Century ; Balkh
Died	810 CE
Venerated in	Islam
Influences	Ibrahim ibn Adham , Rabia Basri
Influenced	Hatim al Assam and Other saints in Basra

Shaqiq al-Balkhi ( Arabic : ???? ?????? ; d. 810 / AH 194) was an early Sufi saint ^[1]^[2] of the Khorasan school. Tradition makes him the disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham . He emphasized the importance of tawakkul or reliance upon God. Some sources state he was a teacher of Bayezed Bistami.

He was a student of Abu Hanifa and a lifelong companion of his classmate and later Abbasid chief justice Abu Yusuf . ^[3]

References [ edit ]

^ Arberry, A.J. , Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya’ ('Memorial of the Saints') . Abridged from Tadhkirat Al-Auliya by Farid al-Din Attar . London, England.: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.
^ "Tawakkul" in: Oliver Leaman (ed.) The Qur'an: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-1-134-33975-4
^ Madelung, Wilferd (1982). "The early Murji'a in Khur?s?n and Transoxania and the spread of ?anafism" . Der Islam . 59 (1). doi : 10.1515/islm.1982.59.1.32 . ISSN 0021-1818 .

[1] Arberry, A.J. , Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from the Tadhkirat Al-Auliya’ ('Memorial of the Saints') . Abridged from Tadhkirat Al-Auliya by Farid al-Din Attar . London, England.: Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990.

[2] "Tawakkul" in: Oliver Leaman (ed.) The Qur'an: an encyclopedia, Routledge, 2008, ISBN 978-1-134-33975-4

[3] Madelung, Wilferd (1982). "The early Murji'a in Khur?s?n and Transoxania and the spread of ?anafism" . Der Islam . 59 (1). doi : 10.1515/islm.1982.59.1.32 . ISSN 0021-1818 .

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