Abu Ishaq Shami

Abu Ishaq Shami (Urdu ابو اسحاق شامی ) (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order (Persian: چشتی‎ - Čištī) (Arabic: ششتى‎ - Shishti).[2] He was the first in the Chishti lineage (silsila) to live in Chisht[3] and so to adopt the name "Chishti", so that, if the Chishti order itself dates back to him, it is one of the oldest recorded Sufi orders. His original name, Shami, implies he came from Syria (ash-Sham). He died in Damascus and lies buried on Mount Qasiyun, where Ibn Arabi was later buried.[4]

Abu Ishaq Shami[1]
Died940
Damascus
InfluencesKhwaja Mumshad Uluw Al Dīnawarī
InfluencedAbu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti
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Abu Ishaq Shami's teacher was Ilw Dinwari, whose own teacher was Abu Hubairah Basri, a disciple of Huzaifah Al-Mar'ashi who was in turn a disciple of Ibrahim ibn Adham. The Chishtiyyah silsila continued through Abu Ishaq Shami's disciple Abu Ahmad Abdal.[5] In South Asia Moinuddin Chishti was the founding father who brought the teaching to the region and he remains the most revered saint of the Chishti order in India and Pakistan. [6]

Quotes

Some of Abu Ishaq Shami's sayings are:

  • “Starvation excels all in bliss.“
  • “The worldly people are impure while the dervishes are pure in their souls. These two different natures cannot therefore mingle.”[4]

See also

References
  1. "The Mashaikh of Chisht by Shaykh Muhammad Zakariya Kandhlawi | Medina | Abrahamic Religions | Free 30-day Trial". Scribd. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  2. Jackson, Roy (2011). Mawlana Mawdudi and Political Islam: Authority and the Islamic State. Abingdon, Oxfordshire. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-415-47411-5.
  3. Karamustafa, Ahmet T. (2011). Sufism: The Formative Period. University of California Press. p. 60. ISBN 978-0-520-25268-4.
  4. Chishti. "Early Sufis in the Chishti Order". Archived from the original on 12 June 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  5. Ernst, Carl W. (2002). Sufi martyrs of love: the Chishti Order in South Asia and beyond. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-4039-6027-6.
  6. Omer Tarin in the Introduction to his essay on Nizamuddin Auliya, Dargah Nizamuddin pubs, Delhi, 2017. np


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