The Onlooker's Delight: Ghibta al-Nazir Fi Tarjuma Al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir (the Biography of Al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir) - Hardcover
Synopsis
This new work is the first ever English translation of the classical text Ghabtat al-Nadhir by Shaykh al Islam Hafiz ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, may Allah be pleased with him. Ghabtatul Nadhir fi Tarjumatil Shaykh 'Abd al-Qadir is a concise work about the characteristics as well as the achievements of al-Ghawth al-Adham : Sayyadina al-Shaykh 'Abd Al-Qadir al-Jilani, may Allah Almighty sanctify his secret, written by the great Hadith scholar Imam Ibn Hajr al-'Asqalani. Table of Contents : ---Foreword 1, ---Foreword 2, ---Introduction to Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani. Chapter [1], ---On his Birth, his family members and his description, ---Description of al-Shaykh Abd al-Qadir, may Allah be pleased with him, Chapter [2], ---On his protected upbringing, ---His engagement in Islamic disciplines, ---His treading of the path of asceticism, Chapter [3], ---On his extensive knowledge, ---Extracts from Bahjat al-Asrar, ---Exclusive reports from Shaykh al-Shattanawfi ; ''My foot is on the neck of every single friend of Allah,'' ---His teachers in jurisprudence and the spiritual disciplines, Chapter [4], ---On his states when he began admonishing, teaching and issuing religious decrees, Chapter [5], ---On peoples praise of him, Chapter [6], ---On his saintly miracles and breaking of ordinary norms, Chapter [7], ---A sample of his utterances Chapter [8], ---On his death.
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