101 Hadith Qudsi by pImam ibn Arabi

Appendix
1 Mu¢ammad b. Qåsim b. ¡Abd al-Ra¢mån al-Tam¨m¨ al-Fås¨
He was a well-known Su¥ mu¢addith in Fez. Ibn ¡Arab¨ met him there on
his ¥rst visit in 591/1195, and studied al-Tam¨m¨’s book about the saints of
the town with him. Al-Tam¨m¨ had spent ¥fteen years in the East gathering
¢ad¨th, where he had met al-Silaf¨ (see below). He later became imam of the
Azhar mosque in Fez. He invested Ibn ¡Arab¨ with the khirqa on his second
visit to Fez in 593–4/1197–8. 22 He died in 603/1206.
(1, 6, 25, 28, 35, 36, 37)
2 *Ab¬ Êå¢ir A¢mad b. Mu¢ammad al-Silaf¨
He was a very well-known mu¢addith of the twelfth century. Born in Isfahan
in 478/1085, he studied in Baghdad and then went to live in Alexandria. He
became president of a college, which was named after him, and died there in
576/1180. It appears that Ibn ¡Arab¨ may have received ¢ad¨th directly from
him, through a written transmission, at the young age of ¥fteen or sixteen,
in the same year that al-Silaf¨ died. 23
(1, 18, 23, 24, 29, 34, 36, 40)
3 Al-Shar¨f Ab¬ Mu¢ammad Y¬nus b. Ya¢yå al-¡Abbås¨
One of Ibn ¡Arab¨’s closest friends, teachers and companions during his
stay in Mecca, he was probably the most in¦uential in the writing of the
Mishkåt al-anwår. A descendant of the Prophet’s family, he was a well-known
mu¢addith from Baghdad, where he seems to have been a disciple of ¡Abd
al-Qådir al-J¨lån¨. In addition to ¢ad¨th, he introduced Ibn ¡Arab¨ to the
teachings of the Egyptian saint, Dhu’l-N¬n al-Mißr¨. He also invested Ibn
¡Arab¨ with the Qådirite khirqa in Mecca in 1202. 24 He died in 608/1211.
(2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 17, 19, 21, 22, 27, 38, 47, 74)
4 Al-Mas¡¬d ¡Abdallåh Badr al-±abash¨
He was one of the closest disciples and a servant of Ibn ¡Arab¨ from their
¥rst meeting in Fez in 593/1197 until his death in Malatya (Turkey) in
618/1221. Several works were speci¥cally composed for him, including the
Inshå¤ al-dawå¤ir and ±ilyat al-Abdål. He himself wrote one work consisting
22. See the second investiture mentioned in Ibn ¡Arab¨’s Nasab al-khirqa (translated by
Elmore, JMIAS, XXVI).
23. This is according to the information given in Ibn ¡Arab¨’s al-Kawkab al-durr¨ f¨
manåqib Dhi’l-N¬n al-Mißr¨ (translated by R. Deladrière into French as La Vie Merveilleuse
de Dhu’l-N¬n l’Egyptien, Sindbad 1988, pp.|68 and 385). This implies that Ibn ¡Arab¨’s
famous triple vision outside Seville can be dated to this year or before.
24. See the ¥rst investiture in the Nasab al-khirqa.
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