Al-Khasibi
Abu ʿAbd-Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Jonbalānī al-Khaṣībī الحسين بن حمدان الخصيبي | |
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Died | 969 Alawite |
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Teacher | Ibn Nusayr |
Successor | Muhammad ibn Ali al-Jilli[2] |
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Abu ʿAbd-Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Jonbalānī al-Khaṣībī.
For a time, al-Khaṣībī was imprisoned in Baghdad, due to accusations of being a Qarmatian. According to the Alawites, after settling in Aleppo, under the rule of the Shia Hamdanid dynasty, he gained the support and aid of its ruler, Sayf al-Dawla, in spreading his teachings. He later dedicated his book Kitab al‐Hidaya al‐Kubra to his patron. He died in Aleppo and his tomb, which became a shrine, is inscribed with the name Shaykh Yabraq.[4]
He taught several unique beliefs, including that
He and his works were praised by the Iranian Shiʿite scholar
Exposure to Nusayri doctrine
Al-Khasibi's first exposure to the teachings of Ibn Nusayr was through ʿAbdallāh al-Jannān, who was a student of Muḥammad ibn Jundab, who was a student of Nusayr himself. Having been initiated into the doctrine through al-Jannān, Khasibi was now al-Jannān's "spiritual son". With the death of al-Jannān, however, al-Khasibi had no means of continuing practice and study of the doctrine. This period of dryness ended later when he encountered an ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, who claimed to be a direct disciple of Nusayr.
In this manner, al-Khasibi received transmission from both al-Jannān and ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad, thus continuing transmission of the Nusayri doctrine. Khasibi did not necessarily believe he was representative of a splinter, rebel group of the Shias, but rather believed he held the true doctrine of the Shias.[7]
During his reign, the founder of the Alawite sect, al-Khasibi, benefited from
See also
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References
- ^ a b Friedman 2008–2012; Friedman 2016. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites 957 or 968 as two possible dates for his death.
- ^ a b c Friedman 2008–2012.
- ISBN 9781400845842.
- ISBN 9780815624110.
- ISBN 9780815624110.
- ISBN 9789004178922.
- ISBN 9789004178922.
Further reading
- Friedman, Yaron (2008–2012). "Ḵaṣibi". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica.
- Friedman, Yaron (2016). "al-Khaṣībī, Abū ʿAbdallāh". In Fleet, Kate; .