Hazrat junaid baghdadi mazar
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Junayd, al-
JUNAYD, AL- (d. ah 298/910 ce), whose full name is Abūʾl-Qāsim ibn Muḥammad al-Junayd, was a major representative of the Baghdad school of Sufism who is associated with its "sober" and socially responsible trend. He came from a family of Iranian merchants. Al-Junayd's father traded in glassware, and he himself earned his livelihood as a dealer in silk. Under the influence of his paternal uncle Sarī al-Saqaṭī, who is often viewed as one of the doyens of Baghdad Sufism, al-Junayd embraced its mystical ideals and ascetic ethos and eventually succeeded him as leader of the Baghdad school of mysticism. He received a solid juridical and theological training under the guidance of such famous Shāfiʿī scholars as Abū Thawr (d. 855 ce) and Ibn Kullāb (d. c. 855) and was qualified to issue legal opinions on various juridical issues. However, most of his teachers were associated with Ṣūfī circles. He cultivated the friendship of a famous Baghdad scholar and ascetic al-Ḥāri
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Anecdotes about
al-Junayd al-Baghdadi
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The son of a glass-merchant, he took up selling glasses in Baghdad. Every day he would go to the shop and draw down the blind and perform four hundred rak'as. After a time he abandoned the shop and withdrew to a room in the porch of Sari's house, where he busied himself with polishing his heart.
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"I learned sincere belief from a barber," Jonaid recalled, and he told the following story.
Once when I was in Mecca, a barber was trimming a gentleman's hair. I said to him, "For the sake of Allah, can you shave my hair?"
"I can," he said. His eyes filling with tears, he left the gentleman still unfinished.
"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."
"Get up," he said. "When Allah's name is spoken, everything else must wait."
He seated me and kissed my head, and shaved off my hair. Then he gave me a screw of paper with a few small coins in it.
"Spend this on your needs," he said.
I thereupon resolved that the first present that came my way I would give him in charity. Not long
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Junayd of Baghdad
Persian Islamic mystic and Sufi saint (830–910)
Abu 'l-Qasim al-Junayd ibn Muhammad al-Baghdadi | |
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Junayd of Baghdad invites the Christian youth to accept Islam at the Sufi meeting, witnessed by Saqati, from "Breaths of intimacy" (Nafaḥāt al-uns), by Jami (d. 1492). Persian-language manuscript created in Ottoman-held Baghdad, dated 1595 | |
| Title | Sayyid at-Taifa |
| Born | 830 Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | 910 (aged 79–80) Baghdad, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Main interest(s) | Sufism, Tassawuf, ishq, theology, philosophy, logic, fiqh |
| Notable idea(s) | Ishq[clarification needed] |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Shafi[1] |
Junayd of Baghdad (Persian: جُنیدِ بَغدادی; Arabic: الجنيد البغدادي) was a Persian[4][5] mystic and one of the most famous of the early Islamic saints. He is a central figure in the spiritual lineage of many Sufi orders.
Junayd taught in Baghdad throughout his lifetime and was an important figure in the development of Sufi doctrine. Like Hasa
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