When they left him he followed them but was told: 'Leave us or you willĭie.' He replied: 'I ask you for Allah's sake to only return to me my notes,įor they are of no use to you.' The robber asked him: 'What are those

On his way back from Jurjan to Tus al-Ghazzali was robbed by highwaymen. In tasawwuf were al-Fadl ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali al-Farmadi al-Tusi ( one ofĪbu al-Qasim al-Qushayri's students ) and Yusuf al-Sajjaj. Other shaykhs in hadith were Nasr ibn 'Ali ibn Ahmad al-Hakimi al-Tusi, 'AbdĪllah ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Khawari, Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn MuhammadĪl-Sujaʿi al-Zawzani, the hadith master Abu al-Fityan 'Umar ibn Abi al-HasanĪl-Ru'asi al-Dahistani, and Nasr ibn Ibrahim al-Maqdisi. Took al-Bukhari's Sahih from Abu Sahl Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Hafsi. Ibn 'Asakir also mentions that al-Ghazzali

Muhammad al-Rādhakāni in Tus, Abu Nasr al-Isma'ili in Jurjan, and ImamĪl-Haramayn Abu al-Ma'ali al-Juwayni in Naysabur, from where he departed toīaghdad after the latter's death. Philosophers than the darkest night stands in need of the light of the moonĪmong his teachers in law, debate, and principles: Ahmad ibn 'He came at a time when people stood in direr need of replies against the Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi stated that, like 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Aziz andĪl-Shafi'i for their respective times, al-Ghazzali is unanimouslyĬonsidered the Renewer of the Fifth Islamic Century. Siddīq,' absolute mujtahid, a major Shafi'i jurist, heresiographer andĭebater, expert in the principles of doctrine and those of jurisprudence. 'Ornament of the Faith,' 'Gatherer of the Multifarious Sciences,' 'Great al-Shafiʿi (450-505), 'the Proof of Islam' (Hujja al-Islam), Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad, Abu Hamid al-Tusi al-Ghazzali What others said about Al-Ghazzali's Ihya 'Ulum al-Dinīy Sh. Someone who has ascertained that he achieves humility (khush') in prayer only when alone, but if he prays in congregation, his energy disperses and he is unable to achieve humility. Considering al-Ghazali’s pedagogical tendencies one could assume that the Ihya’ is larger/deeper work on the subject, the Kimiya to be the medium work and the ‘arbain to be the summary work.Someone who considers prayer as a means towards achieving true worship and knowledge of Allah so that, when he achieves the latter, he no longer feels the necessity of prayer although he continues to pray. Kimiya-ye Saadah (Alchemy of Happiness) Al-Ghazali’s own Persian version of the Ihya’ a shorter work.Jurisprudence and Legal Theory ( al-fiqh wa iṣūlihi)

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