Abul Hasan Hankari

He was educated by his father. He was a man acquainted with the hidden secrets and was known for his Karamats. He would fast for 3 consecutive days and complete 2 whole Quran between Isha and Tahajjud. He devoutly stayed in worship day and night. He had the habit of practicing excessive religious exercises and recitals. He traveled across many countries to get religious knowledge. From Rome to Spain to Harmain, etc. he met numerous scholars and shaikhs from whom he began to receive instruction in Fiqh and muhaddiths from whom he memorized ahadith by heart. He even met Shaikh Abu al-Layla Misri and heard hadith from him. All Hafiz e Quran (memorizers of Quran), Muhaddiths (narrators of Hadiths), Qaries (reciters of Quran with correct accent and pronunciation) are given a chain of incredible narrators linking to the Islamic prophet Muhammad.[5] He gained exoteric and esoteric education from the most prominent and influential scholars of his time. He even got spiritual beneficence from Bayazid Bastami. After sometime, he went back to his homeland. Hence, the people around him gave him a lot of respect and he gained fame. He earned the title of Shaikh-ul-Islam due to the unmatched religious knowledge and beneficence of the time. Countless seekers of Allah benefitted from him as he was an Arif Kamil. He was the Imam of Shariat and Tariqat of his time. He wore the khirqa of khilafat from Muhammad Yousaf Abu al-Farah Tartusi who was the Qutb of that time.[6] The period between the 11th and 14th centuries is considered to be the "Golden Age" of Arabic and Islamic philosophy by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, he has an important role to play in it as he was one of those early Sufis who brought logic into the Islamic seminary.[7][8]

Abul Hasan Hakkari bin yusaf bin Muhammad bin Umar bin Abdul wahab bin ameer zaid bin imam Muhammad Harris bin ameer ul momineen Ali al murtaza karma ullah wagihul kareem bin abi talib bin abu mutalib bin hashim bin abdul manaf His descendants later spread to the State of Bahawalpur, Azalah, Jhang, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Faisalabad, Lahore, etc.[9]

Abu Saeed Mubarak Makhzoomi was the khalifa-e-akbar (senior spiritual successor)[13]
Tahir (son of Abul Hasan Hankari) was khalifa-e-asghar (junior spiritual successor) [14][15][16]

Abul Hasan Hankari influenced a lot of scholars and Islamic scholars alike most of whom have a notable name in the history such as:

1. Hujjat-ul-Islam Imam Mohammad Ghazali Tusi (505 H/1111 CE);[17]
2. Hafiz Darqatni;
3. Sartaj Nehyan Ibn Jani;
4. Sartaj Bilfar Badee
5. Qadwari Shaikh Al-Hanafia (428H);
6. Avicenna (427H);[18]
7. Imam Behqi;[19][20]
8. Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani (471H);
9. Shaikh Abu al-Hassan al-Kharaqani.[21]

He died on 1st Moharram 486 H, 1 February 1093 CE during the Abbassid Caliphate. His shrine is the village of Hankar, Baghdad.[14]

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