Al-Khasibi

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Abu ʿAbd-Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Jonbalānī al-Khaṣībī
الحسين بن حمدان الخصيبي
Personal
Died969
Alawite
Senior posting
TeacherIbn Nusayr
SuccessorMuhammad ibn Ali al-Jilli[2]
Initiated
  • Ali ibn Isa al-Jisri
  • Hasan ibn Shu'ba[2]

Abu ʿAbd-Allāh al-Ḥusayn ibn Ḥamdān al-Jonbalānī al-Khaṣībī

Imam Hasan al‐Askari and a scholar of the Islamic sect known as the Alawites or Nusayris, which is now present in Syria, southern Turkey and northern Lebanon
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Egyptian manuscript from 1508 of a work by al‐Khasibi.

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

Salman al-Farisi.[5]

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

Shi'ism began a process whereby Syria
came to host a large Shi'a population by the 12th century.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Friedman 2008–2012; Friedman 2016. The Encyclopædia Britannica cites 957 or 968 as two possible dates for his death.
  2. ^ a b c Friedman 2008–2012.
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