The Scholars of the Sufis - They are the Genuine Followers of the Salaf  Paperback - 210 pages by Shaykh Abd al-Hadi Kharsa  The Scholars of the Sufis -
They are the Genuine Followers of the Salaf Written by the erudite scholar, Sufi educator, ascetic, and author of many books, Sayyidi al-Shaykh `Abd al-Hadi b. al-Hajj Muhammad b. Salih al-Kharsa al-Dimashqi al-Salihi al-Shadhili al-Hanafi The translation and publication of the present book, `Ulama’ al-Sufiyya Hum al-Salafiyya al-Haqiqiyyun is a welcome event for seekers of spiritual guidance and self-purification in our time. This praiseworthy effort offers to the English-speaking public a contemporary explanation of the immutable principles of Sufism, which are one and the same with the three principles of Religion: submission [islam], faith [iman], and excellence [ihsan]. The book contains Shaykh `Abd al-Hadi’s carefully presented anthology of the wisdom of the Sufi masters of old and their summations of doctrine [`aqida] and of the various spiritual diseases and spiritual stations and states of the wayfarer. They were gleaned from the bio-sapiental classics of the genre such as Tabaqat al-Sufiyya, the Luma`, the Risala, the Ihya’, and can be found in later works such as Tabaqat al-Awliya and al-Kawakib al-Durriyya fi Tarajim al-Sufiyya. The vehemence of the title—shown in the emphatic-exclusive personal pronoun and translatable as ‘The Scholars of the Sufis: [Only] They are the Genuine Followers of the Salaf!’—is a reminder of the tireless efforts of the last two hundred years of Ahl al-Sunna wal-Jama`a scholarship demonstrating the Islamic orthodoxy of tasawwuf and denouncing the heresy of Wahhabism and pseudo-Salafism. It is its unique gems that make `Ulama’ al-Sufiyya stand out such as, for example, the title’s emphasis on knowledge: it is never about the Sufis at large but about their Gnostics; as for would-be-Sufi [mutasawwif] claimants who are nescient of the Shari`a or not even concerned by it: they are also heretics and completely undesirable no matter how big they grow their beard, turban, jubba, or voice! This is a theme stressed by many of our salaf al-salih [pious predecessors]. ---Shaykh Gibril Fouad Haddad CONTENTS ---Biography and Introduction by Shaykh Gibril Fouad al-Haddad [11]
---Preface [25]
CHAPTER I
---The Way of the Latter Day Sufis: Positives and Negatives [29]
CHAPTER II
A Concise description of the Sufi Path: the Introdcution to Al-Luma' by Dr. 'Abd al-'Halim Ma'mud & 'Taha 'Abd al-Baqi Surur [35]
---An Abridgement of the Introduction to al-Luma' by Abu Nasr 'Abdullah b. 'Ali al-Sarraj al-'Tusi [37] CHAPTER III
---An Exposition upon the Science of Sufism, the Way of the Sufis, and their Rank according to the upright people of knowledge [39] CHAPTER IV
---Refuting the Claim that the Sufis are an ignorant folk & that their science is unsubstantiated in the book or the Prophetic Reports [45] CHAPTER V
---The Special Endownment and exclusive possession of Religious Sciences [47] CHAPTER VI
---Concerning the name of the Sufis and Why they were given that name [51] CHAPTER VII
---Refuting those who argue that the term Sufi is an innovated name that was not mentioned in the time of the Salaf [53]
---Affirmation of Inward Knowledge [54] CHAPTER VIII
---What is Sufism and what are the Qualities of the Sufis? [55] CHAPTER IX SELECTION OF THE WORDS OF THE SUFIS ON SPIRITUAL STATIONS & TRANSIENT STATES
---DIVINE ONENESS [TAWHID] [59]
---THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES [ 60]
---THE QUR’AN [62]
---THE BEATIFIC VISION [62]
---THE PROPHET’S VISION [62]
---PREDESTINATION AND THE CREATION OF ACTS [63]
---ABILITY [63]
---ACQUISITION [KASB] [64]
---BEST INTERESTS [A'LA.] [65]
---INTERCESSION, THE TRAVERSE, AND THE ETERNALITY OF PARADISE AND HELL [65]
---MAJOR SINS, PRAYERS BEHIND THE SINFUL, AND BELIEF REGARDING THE COMPANIONS [66]
---REBELLION, TORMENT IN THE GRAVE, AND MUNKAR AND NAKIR [66]
---DEATH, PROVISION, AND ARGUMENTATION ABOUT THE RELIGION [67]
---LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, RECOMPENSE, AND WORKS [67]
---GNOSIS [MA'RIFA] [68]
---THE SPIRIT [RU'] [69]
---THE ANGELS AND MESSENGERS [70]
---CONCERNING THE FAULTS ASCRIBED TO THE PROPHETS [71]
---THE MIRACLES OF THE SAINTS [71]
---THE TWO TYPES OF SAINTHOOD [72]
---FAITH [IMAN] [73]
---THE LEGAL SCHOOLS [AL-MADHAHIB AL-SHAR'IYYA] [73
---EARNING LIVELIHOOD [74] CHAPTER X THE SCIENCES OF THE SUFIS:
---THE SCIENCES OF TRANSIENT SPIRITUAL STATES [75]
---THE UNVEILING OF THOUGHTS [75]
---REPENTANCE [TAWBA] [76]
---SCRUPULOUSNESS [76]
---RENUNCIATION [ZUHD] [77]
---POVERTY [77]
---PATIENCE [.ABR] [78]
---HUMILITY [79]
---FEAR AND HOPE [79]
---PIETY [TAQWA] [79]
---SINCERITY [IKHLAS] [80]
---GRATITUDE [SHUKR] [80]
---RELIANCE [80]
---SATISFACTION [81]
---CERTITUDE [81]
---REMEMBRANCE OF THE DIVINE [DHIKR] [82]
---INTIMACY [UNS] [82]
---CLOSENESS [82]
---CONNECTION [ITTI.AL] [83]
---LOVE [83]
---WITNESSING AND VIGILANCE [84]
---LONGING FOR THE DIVINE [84]
---SOLACE [84]
---DIVESTMENT AND SEPARATION [84]
---ECSTATIC RAPTURE [WAJD] [85]
---OVERMASTERY [GHALABA] [85]
---DRUNKENNESS [86]
---SOBRIETY [86]
---ABSENCE AND PRESENCE [86]
---GATHERING AND SEPARATION [87]
---ANNIHILATION AND SUBSISTENCE [87]
---THE REALITIES OF GNOSIS [88]
---THE SEEKER AND THE SOUGHT [88]
---SPIRITUAL STRUGGLES AND WORKS [88]
---TEACHING THE PEOPLE [89]
---PIOUS ENDEAVOURS [89]
---AUDITION [SAMA.] [91] CHAPTER XI ---Mention of their statements and actions that illustrate their firm adherence to the book and the Sunnah [93] CHAPTER XII ---THEIR MANNERS AND CHARACTER [97]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF RITUAL PURIFICATION [97]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF PRAYER [98]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF THE ZAKAT [100]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF FASTING [101]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF THE HAJJ [102]
---ON THE PROPER ETIQUETTE OF TRAVEL AND RESIDENCE [105]
---ON COMPANIONSHIP [106]
---ON KNOWLEDGE [106]
---ON FOOD [107]
---ON CLOTHING [108]
---ON EARNING A LIVELIHOOD [108]
---ON SITTING [109]
---ON HUNGER [109]
---ON THE ETIQUETTE OF THE SPIRITUAL WAYFARERS [110]
---ON RETREAT [KHALWA] [110]
---ON FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE [111] CHAPTER XIII
---TESTIMONIES FROM SOME OF THE IMAMS AND SCHOLARS REGARDING SUFISM AND ITS ADHERENTS, AND A CLARIFICATION THAT THE IMAMS AND WELL-CONSIDERED NOTABLES HAVE ALWAYS RESPECTED IT FROM THE TIME OF THE SALAF TILL TODAY [113] ---IMAM HASAN AL-BASRI [113]
---IMAM SUFYAN AL-THAWRI [113]
---IMAM ABU HANIFA AL-NU'MAN [114]
---IMAM MALIK B. ANAS [115]
---IMAM AL-SHAFI'I [117]
---IMAM AHMAD B. HANBAL [118]
---SHAYKH AL-ISLAM .IZZ B. .ABD AL-SALAM [121]
---SHAYKH AHMAD B. TAYMIYYA [123]
---IMAM ABU ZAKARIYYA YAHYA AL-NAWAWI [125]
---IMAM IBN QAYYIM AL-JAWZIYYA [126]
---IMAM ABU BAKR B. AL-.ARABI AL-MALIKI [127]
---IMAM AL-SHATIBI [127]
---IBN HAJAR AL-HAYTAMI [128]
---IMAM AL-SUBKI [128]
---IBN AL-.AJJ [129]
---IMAM AL-JURJANI [129]
---IMAM ABU QA.IM AL-NA.RABADHI [130]
---SHAYKH AHMAD AL-DARDIR [130]
---IMAM IBRAHIM AL-BAJURI [130]
---'ALLAMA AL-AKH.ARI AND AL-DAMNAHURI [131]
---'ALLAMA IBN ZAKARI [131]
---IMAM AL-SHABARKHITI AL-MALIKI [132]
---'ALLAMA .ABD AL-MAJID AL-SHARNUBI 133]
---'ALLAMA SHAYKH MUHAMMAD BAYRAM AL-KHAMIS, MUFTI OF TUNIS [134] CHAPTER XIV ---A Sample of Narrations and Stories from the Scholars of the Sufis mentioned by Imam Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami in Tabaqat al-Sufiyya [135] ---Conclusion [151]
---Beneficial Books [152]
---Appendix BIOGRAPHIES ---Abu Nasr al-Tusi [155]
---Hudhayfa b. Yaman [155]
---'Umar b. al-Khattab [155]
---Wasiba b. Ma'bad [156]
---Abu Hurayra [156]
---'Ali b' Abi Talib [157]
---Hasan al-Basri [159]
---Sufyan al-Thawri [160]
---Junayd al-Baghdadi [161]
---Abu Ja'far al-Qassab [162]
---Ruwaym b. Ahmad [162]
---Abu Muhammad al-Jariri [163]
---'Amr b. 'Uthman al-Makki [163]
---'Abd al-Wahid b. Zayd [164]
---Abu Ya'qub al-Razi [164]
---Dhu al-Nun al-Misri [165]
---Abu Bakr al-Farghani [165]
---Abu al-Husayn al-Nuri [166]
---Abu Sa'id al-Kharraz [167]
---Hasan b. 'Ali b. Abi Talib [168]
---Abu Turab al-Nakhshabi [168]
---Yahya b. Mu'adh [169]
---Abu al-'Abbas al-Adami [169]
---Sahl b. .Abdullah al-Tustari [171]
---Abu 'Abdullah al-Nibaji [172]
---Abu Yazid al-Bistami [172]
---Abu Bakr al-Shibli [172]
---Sari al-Saqati [173
---Ibrahim al-Khawwas [174]
---Abu al-Hasan al-Qannad [175]
---Harith al-Muhasibi [175]
---Abu 'Abbas Ahmad b. Masruq [176]
---Ahmad b. 'Ata al-Rudhabari [176]
---Sumnun al-Khawwas [177]
---Abu 'Amr al-Zujaji [177]
---Abu 'Uthman al-Hiri [177]
---Ahmad b. Muqatil [178]
---Ja'far al-Khuldi [178]
---Abu al-'Abbas b. Surayj [ 179]
---Tha'lab [180]
---Ibrahim al-Harbi [180]
---Abu Sulayman al-Darani [180]
---Sa'id b. al-Musayyib [181]
---'Abdullah b. Mubarak [182]
---Ibrahim b. Adham [183]
---Bishr al-Hafi [183]
---Ibn al-Jalla’ [184]
---Abu Bakr al-Kattani [185]
---Abu Ishaq al-Qarmisini [186]
---Abu Hafs al-Haddad [187]
---Ibn Salim [187]
---Abu 'Ali b. al-Katib [188]
---Ibn al-Hajj [189]
---Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya [189]
---Imam Abu Hanifa [189]
---Imam Malik b. Anas [190]
---Qadi 'Iyad' [192]
---Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi [192]
---Imam al-Shafi'i [192]
---'Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha'rani [194
---Imam Al-Nawawi [195]
---Imam Ahmad b' Hanbal [195]
---Abu Hamza al-Baghdadi [196]
---Yahya b. Ma'in [197]
---Ahmad b. Abi al-Hawari [197]
---Al-Munawi [198]
---Al-Ghazali [198]
---Mahruf al-Karkhi [198]
---Ibn Khaldun [199]
---'Izz b. 'Abd al-Salam [199]
---Al-Subki [200]
---Al-Suyuti [200]
---Al-Suhrawardi [200]
---Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili [201]
---Abu al-Qasim Al-Qushayri [201]
---Ahmad b. Taymiyya [201]
---'Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani [202]
---Fudayl b' 'Iyad [202]
---Hammad al-Dabbas [203]
---Abu al-Bayan [204]
---Hafiz al-Maqdisi [205]
---Abu Bakr b. al-'Arabi [205]
---Ibn Hajar al-Haytami [205]
---Al-Jurjani [205]
---Al-Dardir [206]
---Al-Bajuri [206]
---Al-Akhdari [206]
---Al-Damnahuri [206]
---Ibn Zakari [207]
---Mayyara [207]
---Al-Shabarkhiti [207]
---Al-Sharnubi [207]
---Muhammad Bayram al-Tunisi [207] ---Bibliography [209]
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