Hasan al-Basri

al-Hasan al-Basri ( ) (Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan Yasar al-Basri), (642 - 728 or 737), also known as Imam Hasan al Basri, was a well-known Muslim theologian and scholar of Islam who was born at Medina from Persian parents. ::: 'ULUM AL-QUR'AN #3 - THE HISTORY OF TAFSIR ::: Michael G. Excerpt from pg 189: "the parents of Al-Hasan Al-Basri were lower-class Persians and came from this part of Iraq (Baladhuri, Futuh,344). ABI’L-ḤASAN YASĀR" , in Encyclopædia Iranica .

Hasan al-Basri ( ; full name : Al-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan al-Basri ), (642–728), was a well-known Muslim preacher , theologian , and scholar of Islam who was born in 642 from Persian parents. Brought up in the house of the prophet Muhammad 's wife Umm Salama , Hasan met many companions of Muhammad including, it is said, seventy of the warriors who fought in the Battle of Badr . As can be seen in the spiritual chains ( silsilah ) of most Sufi orders , he was a renowned follower of Ali ibn Abi Talib . Hasan grew up to become one of the most prominent figures of his generation, being famous for his piety and condemnation of worldliness. When he died on Friday, 5 Rajab 110 AH, at the age of 89, the entire population of Basra attended his funeral, so that for the first time in the history of Basra the city's Jami' Masjid remained empty at the hour of the 'Asr prayer. Hasan quickly became an exemplar for other saints in the area and his personality made a deep impression upon his contemporaries. Excerpt from pg 189: "the parents of Al-Hasan Al-Basri were lower-class Persians and came from this part of Iraq (Baladhuri, Futuh,344). ABI’L-ḤASAN YASĀR" , in Encyclopædia Iranica .

Abi ’l-Ḥasan Yasār al-Baṣrī , often referred to as Ḥasan of Basra ( Arabic : حسن البصري, Ḥasan al-Baṣrī ; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or reverentially as Imam Ḥasan al-Baṣrī in Sunni Islam , was an early Muslim preacher , ascetic , theologian , exegete , scholar , judge , and mystic . Born in Medina in 642, Hasan belonged to the second generation of Muslims, all of whom would subsequently be referred to as the tābiʿūn in Sunni Islamic piety. In fact, Hasan rose to become one of "the most celebrated" of the tābiʿūn , enjoying an "acclaimed scholarly career and an even more remarkable posthumous legacy in Islamic scholarship." Hasan, revered for his austerity and support for "renunciation" ( zuhd ), preached against worldliness and materialism during the early days of the Umayyad Caliphate , with his passionate sermons casting a "deep impression on his contemporaries." His close relationships with several of the most prominent companions of the prophet Muhammad only strengthened his standing as a teacher and scholar of the Islamic sciences. The particular disciplines in which he is said to have excelled included exegesis ( tafsīr ) of the Quran , whence his "name is invariably encountered in" classical and medieval commentaries on the scripture, as well as theology and mysticism . Regarding the last of these, it is important to note that Hasan became a tremendously important figure in the development of Sufism with his name occurring "in many mystical silsilas (chains of teachers and their disciples) going back to Muḥammad" in the writings of Sunni mystics from the ninth-century onwards. In the words of one scholar, Hasan stands as the "great patriarch" of early Sufism. As scholars have noted, very few of Hasan's original writings survive, with his proverbs and maxims on various subjects having been transmitted primarily through oral tradition by his numerous disciples. While fragments of his famed sermons do survive in the works of later authors, the only complete manuscripts we have bearing his name are apocryphal works such as the Risālat al-qadar ilā ʿAbd al-Malik ( Epistle to ʿAbd al-Malik against the Predestinarians ), a pseudopigraphical text from the ninth or early-tenth century, and another letter "of an ascetic and hortatory character" addressed to Umar II (d. 720), which is likewise deemed spurious. Traditionally, Hasan has been commemorated as an outstanding figure by all the Sunni schools of thought , and was frequently designated as one the well respected of the early Islamic community in later writings by such important Sunni thinkers as Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 996), Abu Nu`aym (d. 1038), Ali Hujwiri (d. 1077), Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), and Attar of Nishapur (d. 1221). In his famed Ḳūt al-ḳulūb , the most important work of Basran Sunni mysticism, Abu Talib al-Makki says of Hasan: "Ḥasan is our Imām in this doctrine which we represent. We walk in his footsteps and we follow his ways and from his lamp we have our light" ( wa ’l-Ḥasanu raḥimahu ’llāhu imāmunā fī hād̲h̲a ’l-ʿilmi ’llad̲h̲ī natakallamu bih , at̲h̲arahu naḳfū wa sabīlahū natbaʿu wa min mis̲h̲kātihi nastaḍīʾ ). The Cambridge History of Iran . Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī, Ḳūt al-ḳulūb , Cairo 1310, passim Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ wa-ṭabaqāt al-aṣfiyāʾ (Beirut 1967–8), 2:131–61 Ḥud̲j̲wīrī, Kas̲h̲f al-maḥd̲j̲ūb , tr. Sulaymān M. al-Ḥarash, Riyadh 1993 al-ʿAṭṭār, Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ , ed.

Early Islamic scholar (c. 642–728) "Hassan Basri" redirects here. Abu Sa'id ibn Abi al-Hasan Yasar al-Basri , often referred to as Hasan of Basra ( Arabic : الحسن البصري, romanized : Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī ; 642 - 15 October 728) for short, or as Hasan al-Basri , was an ancient Muslim preacher , ascetic , theologian , exegete , scholar , judge , and mystic . Born in Medina in 642, Hasan belonged to the second generation of Muslims, all of whom would subsequently be referred to as the tābiʿūn in Sunni Islamic piety. He became one of "the most celebrated" of the tābiʿūn , enjoying an "acclaimed scholarly career and an even more remarkable posthumous legacy in Islamic scholarship." Hasan, revered for his austerity and support for "renunciation" ( zuhd ), preached against worldliness and materialism during the early days of the Umayyad Caliphate , with his passionate sermons casting a "deep impression on his contemporaries." His close relationships with several of the most prominent companions of Muhammad only strengthened his standing as a teacher and scholar of the Islamic sciences. The particular disciplines in which he is said to have excelled included exegesis ( tafsīr ) of the Quran , whence his "name is invariably encountered in" classical and medieval commentaries on the scripture, as well as theology and mysticism . Hasan became an important figure in the development of Sufism with his name occurring "in many mystical silsilas (chains of teachers and their disciples) going back to Muḥammad" in the writings of Sunni mystics from the ninth-century onwards. In the words of one scholar, Hasan stands as the "great patriarch" of early Sufism. Scholars have said that very few of Hasan's original writings survive, with his proverbs and maxims on various subjects having been transmitted primarily through oral tradition by his numerous disciples. While fragments of his famed sermons do survive in the works of later authors, the only complete manuscripts that bear his name are apocryphal works such as the Risālat al-qadar ilā ʿAbd al-Malik ( Epistle to ʿAbd al-Malik against the Predestinarians ), a pseudopigraphical text from the ninth or early-tenth century, and another letter "of an ascetic and hortatory character" addressed to Umar II (d. 720), which is likewise deemed spurious. Traditionally, Hasan has been commemorated as an outstanding figure by all the Sunni schools of thought , and was frequently designated as one of the well respected of the early Islamic community in later writings by such important Sunni thinkers as Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 996), Abu Nu`aym (d. 1038), Ali Hujwiri (d. 1077), Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), and Attar of Nishapur (d. 1221). In his famed Ḳūt al-ḳulūb , the most important work of Basran Sunni mysticism, Abu Talib al-Makki says of Hasan: "Ḥasan is our Imām in this doctrine which we represent. We walk in his footsteps and we follow his ways and from his lamp we have our light" ( wa ’l-Ḥasanu raḥimahu ’llāhu imāmunā fī hād̲h̲a ’l-ʿilmi ’llad̲h̲ī natakallamu bih , at̲h̲arahu naḳfū wa sabīlahū natbaʿu wa min mis̲h̲kātihi nastaḍīʾ ). The Cambridge History of Iran . Sulaymān M. al-Ḥarash, Riyadh 1993 al-ʿAṭṭār, Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ , ed.

Early Islamic scholar (c. 642–728) Abi Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Yasar al-Basri , often referred to as al-Hasan al-Basri , was an ancient Muslim preacher , ascetic , theologian , exegete , scholar , and judge . Born in Medina in 642, Hasan belonged to the second generation of Muslims, all of whom would subsequently be referred to as the tābiʿūn in Sunni Islamic piety. He became one of "the most celebrated" of the tābiʿūn , enjoying an "acclaimed scholarly career and an even more remarkable posthumous legacy in Islamic scholarship." Hasan, revered for his austerity and support for "renunciation" ( zuhd ), preached against worldliness and materialism during the early days of the Umayyad Caliphate , with his passionate sermons casting a "deep impression on his contemporaries." His close relationships with several of the most prominent companions of Muhammad only strengthened his standing as a teacher and scholar of the Islamic sciences. The particular disciplines in which he is said to have excelled included exegesis ( tafsīr ) of the Quran , whence his "name is invariably encountered in" classical and medieval commentaries on the scripture, as well as theology . Hasan became an important figure to the later founders of Sufism with his name occurring "in many mystical silsilas (chains of teachers and their disciples) going back to Muḥammad" in the writings of Sunni mystics from the ninth-century onwards. Scholars have said that very few of Hasan's original writings survive, with his proverbs and maxims on various subjects having been transmitted primarily through oral tradition by his numerous disciples. While fragments of his famed sermons do survive in the works of later authors, the only complete manuscripts that bear his name are apocryphal works such as the Risālat al-qadar ilā ʿAbd al-Malik ( Epistle to ʿAbd al-Malik against the Predestinarians ), a pseudopigraphical text from the ninth or early-tenth century, and another letter "of an ascetic and hortatory character" addressed to Umar II (d. 720), which is likewise deemed spurious. Traditionally, Hasan has been commemorated as an outstanding figure by all the Sunni schools of thought , and was frequently designated as one of the well respected of the early Islamic community in later writings by such important Sunni thinkers as Abu Talib al-Makki (d. 996), Abu Nu`aym (d. 1038), Ali Hujwiri (d. 1077), Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 1201), and Attar of Nishapur (d. 1221). In his famed Ḳūt al-ḳulūb , the most important work of Basran mysticism, Abu Talib al-Makki says of Hasan: "Ḥasan is our Imām in this doctrine which we represent. We walk in his footsteps and we follow his ways and from his lamp we have our light". There are <ref group=lower-alpha> tags or templates on this page, but the references will not show without a template or template (see the help page ). The Cambridge History of Iran . Sulaymān M. al-Ḥarash, Riyadh 1993 al-ʿAṭṭār, Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ , ed.