101 Hadith Qudsi by pImam ibn Arabi

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Military Campaigns, describing the Prophet’s battles, and as an authority on
the traditions of the Jews and Christians. He died in 110/728.]
3. Ka¡b al-A¢bår was brought up as a Jew in the Yemen, and is reported to have
been present at the Prophet’s last sermon in Medina. He became Muslim
in the time of Ab¬ Bakr and was a companion to ¡Umar. He was known
for transmitting traditions regarding previous prophets such as Moses and
Dhu’l-Ki¦. He died in 32/652.
4. Ab¬ Sulaymån Mu¢ammad b. ¡Abdallåh al-Raba¡¨, died 379/989.
5. Ab¬ Bakr Mu¢ammad b. al-±asan al-Naqqåsh (266–351/880–962), from
Baghdad.
6. In Arabic, the word mu¤min denotes both the one who has faith in God and
a Divine Name, the One who gives the security of faith.
7. In Arabic, peace (salåm) and the surrendered (muslim¬n) are from the same
etymological root.
8. Ab¬ ¡Abd al-Ra¢mån b. Shu¡ayb al-Nas夨 (215–302/820–914) was born
in Khorasan, and travelled widely in pursuit of ¢ad¨th, settling eventually
in Egypt. In 302/914 he went to Damascus, where he composed a book on
the merits of ¡Al¨, for which he was much criticised and driven out of the
mosque. He compiled a huge Sunan, which contained a number of dubious
traditions, and then a synopsis, al-Mujtabå, which is now accepted as one of
the six canonical collections.
9. See Q. 82: 7: “O man, what has deceived you as to your generous Lord who
created you and shaped you and proportioned you and composed you in
whatever form He willed for you?”
10. Asad b. M¬så al-Urmaw¨, known as Asad of the Sunna. A mu¢addith–su¥, he
died in Egypt in 212/827.
11. One of Ibn ¡Arab¨’s masters in the Maghrib, al-Kinån¨ had been a companion
of Ab¬ Madyan. He was a surgeon who lived just outside Tunis, and was
buried in La Marsa. See Hirtenstein, Unlimited Merci¥er, p. 89.
12. Q. 7: 99.
13. Ab¬ Bakr A¢mad b. ¡Amr al-Bazzår, a scholar from Basra who compiled two
¢ad¨th collections. He died in Ramla in 291/904.
14. Ab¬ Mu¢ammad al-±usayn b. Mas¡¬d al-Farrå¤, known as the reviver of the
Sunna. A native of Khorasan, al-Baghaw¨ lived in Marw (Merv) and died there
in 516/1122, aged over eighty. He was famed for his commentary on the
Qur¤an and the very complete collection of ¢ad¨th entitled Shar¢ al-sunna.
15. Presumably Mu¢ammad ibn Qass¬m, who was Ibn ¡Arab¨’s teacher and
companion in Andalusia. See R. W. J. Austin, Su¥s of Andalusia, p. 83.
16. Probably M¬så b. Mu¢ammad al-Qabbåb who is named as present at the
reading of the R¢ al-quds in Mecca in AH 600. See Fut. I. 603.
17. Jar¨r b. ¡Abdallåh was a close friend of Ibn ¡Abbås (21–96/642–714).
18. A plain some 25 km to the east of Mecca, where pilgrims gather for the central
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