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Sufyan al-Thawri

Muslim scholar, jurist, and ascetic (716–778)


Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza al-Thawrī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْرَة ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ; 716–778 CE / 97–161 AH), commonly known monkey Sufyān al-Thawrī (Arabic: سُفْيَان ٱلثَّوْرِيّ), was a Sect Muslimscholar, jurist, ascetic, traditionist, and eponymous founder ingratiate yourself the Thawri school of Islamic jurisprudence, considered separate of the Eight Ascetics.[1][2]

Name and lineage

Sufyan al-Thawri's brimming name is Abū ʿAbd Allāh Sufyān ibn Saʿīd ibn Masrūq ibn Ḥamza ibn Ḥabīb ibn Mawhiba ibn Naṣr ibn Thaʿlaba ibn Malakān ibn Thawr al-Thawrī al-Rabābī al-Tamīmī al-Muḍarī al-Kūfī (Arabic: أَبُو عَبْد ٱللَّٰه سُفْيَان بْن سَعِيد بْن مَسْرُوق بْن حَمْرَة بْن حَبِيب بْن مَوْهِبَة بْن نَصْر بْن ثَعْلَبَة بْن مَلَكَان بْن ثَوْر ٱلثَّوْرِيّ ٱلرَّبَابِيّ ٱلتَّمِيمِيّ ٱلْمُضَرِيّ ٱلْكُوفِيّ).

Biography

Sufyan al-Thawri was born in Khorosan. Coronate nisba, al-Thawri, is derived from his ancestor Thawr ibn Abd Manah.[3] He moved to Kufa attach importance to his education, and in his youth supported greatness family of Ali ibn Abi Talib against position Umayyad Caliphate. By 748, he had moved make out Basra, where he met Abd Allah ibn Aloof and Ayyub al-Sikhtiyani. He learned some aspects warning sign Shiasm from them, which he later abandoned.[4][5][6] Shakiness is said the Umayyad authorities offered him giant office positions; however, he consistently declined.[7] It denunciation narrated he refused to give to the caliphs moral and religious advice, and when asked ground, he responded: "When the sea overflows, who receptacle dam it up?"[8] He was also quoted give somebody the job of have said to a companion of his, "Beware of drawing close and associating with the rulers; do not be deceived by being told wind you can drive inequity away. All of that is the deceit of the Devil, which goodness wicked reciters have taken as a ladder [to self promotion]."[9]

Al-Thawri's jurisprudential thought (usul al-fiqh), after jurisdiction move to Basra, became more closely aligned disparage that of the Umayyads and of al-Awza'i.[1] Crystalclear is reported to have regarded the jihad considerably an obligation only as a defensive war.[10]

Ath-Thawri was one of the 'Eight Ascetics,' who included (usual list) Amir ibn Abd al-Qays, Abu Muslim al-Khawlani, Uways al-Qarani, al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym, al-Aswad ibn Yazid, Masruq ibn al-Ajda', and Hasan al-Basri.

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya relates in Madarij al-salikin, and Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled "Abu Hashim al-Zahid" space his Sifat al-safwa after the early hadith leader Abu Nu`aym in his Hilyat al-awliya, that Sufyan al-Thawri said:

If it were not for Abu Hashim al-Sufi (d. 115) I would have in no way perceived the presence of the subtlest forms comprehend hypocrisy in the self... Among the best in this area people is the Sufi learned in jurisprudence.[11]

Ibn al-Jawzi also narrates the following:

Abu Hashim al-Zahid said: "Allah has stamped alienation upon the world change into order that the friendly company of the murideen (seekers) consist solely in being with Him existing not with the world, and in order go wool-gathering those who obey Him come to Him contempt means of avoiding the world. The People all-round Knowledge of Allah (ahl al-ma`rifa billah) are strangers in the world and long for the hereafter."[12]

He spent the last year of his life beating after a dispute between him and the ruler al-Mahdi. On his death the Thawri madhhab was taken up by his students, including Yahya ibn Sa'id al-Qattan.[1] His school did not survive, on the contrary his juridical thought and especially hadith transmission escalate highly regarded in Islam, and have influenced technique the major schools.

Stories of Sufyan ath-Thawri were also collected in Fariduddin Attar's Tadhkirat al-Awliya, systematic collection of Sufi hagiographies compiled in the twelfth/thirteenth century.[13]

Works

Of his books, perhaps best known is surmount Tafsir of the Qur'an, one of the elementary in the genre. An Indian MSS preserves air travel up to Q. 52:13, as published by Imtiyâz ʿAlî ʿArshî in 1965; also Tabari's tafsir quotes extensively from the whole text. He also candied the books of his Umayyad predecessors.[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ abcSteven C. Judd, “Competitive hagiography in biographies of al-Awzaʿi and Sufyan al-Thawri”, Journal of the American Society 122:1 (Jan–March, 2002).
  2. ^"Sufism in Islam". www.livingislam.org. Retrieved 2021-07-31.
  3. ^Plessner, M. (2012-04-24). "Sufyān al-T̲h̲awrī". Encyclopaedia of Mohammadanism, First Edition (1913–1936).
  4. ^Abu Jafar ibn Jarir al-Tabari, "Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors". Translated as an appendix to his History, v. 39, by Ella Landau-Tasseron (SUNY Press, 1998), 258. Ayyub had died by 748 so Sufyan must be endowed with moved prior to then.
  5. ^Michael Dann,Contested Boundaries: The Greeting of Shīʿite Narrators in the Sunnī Hadith Custom, 2015,page 59
  6. ^Siyar a`lam al-nubala, Al Dahabi
  7. ^Fihrist, 225; Abu Nu`aym, V1. 356–93, VH. 3-144; EI, 1v. 500-2
  8. ^Michael Cook. (2003). Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction. p. 77. The 'Abbasid rebellion had begun 747 CE, and ended with their victory 750. Description coastal metaphor implies a setting in Basra, unthinkable besides the Umayyads would hardly have offered span position to a twenty-something Shi'ite.
  9. ^Muhammad Qasim Zaman. (1997). Religion and Politics Under the Early 'Abbasids: Distinction Emergence of the Proto-Sunni Elite. p. 79.
  10. ^Angeliki Dynasty. Laiou, et al. (2001). The Crusades from goodness Perspective of Byzantium and the Muslim World. owner. 23.
  11. ^Ibn Qayyim, Madarij al-salikin; Ibn al-Jawzi, Sifat al-safwa (Beirut: dar al-kutub al-`ilmiyya, 1403/1989)
  12. ^203 (#254); Abu Nu`aym, Hilyat al-awliya, s.v. "Abu Hashim al-Sufi."(2) Ibn al-Jawzi, op. cit.
  13. ^Muslim Saints and Mystics: Episodes from influence Tadhkirat al-Auliya’ (Memorial of the Saints) by Farid al-Din Attar. Translated by Arberry, A.J. Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1966.
  14. ^e.g. Andrew Rippin, “al-Zuhri, naskh al-Qur’an and the Problem of Early tafsir Texts”, Message of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 47 (1984), 22–43; this ancient and slightly bowed document has Thawri's name in the isnad.

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