- Uwais al-Qarni
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region = Muslim Scholar
era = Medieval Islamic Era
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name = "'Uwais al-Qarni"'
birth = Unknown
death = 657 A.D.
school_tradition =Islam
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influenced =Uwais al-Qarni or "Oways b. Anis al-Qarni" "Oveys Gharani" or "Veysel Karani"(
Arabic : أويس بن انيس القرني) (died657 A.D.) was aMuslim resident of Qaran inYemen who lived during the lifetime ofMuhammad , and is considered aTabi'i . His grave is inBaykan in theSiirt Province ofTurkey .Life
Qarni converted to
Islam during Muhammad's lifetime, though they never met in person. Following the death of Muhammad in 632 CE, Qarni did meetUmar andAli .Not long after this meeting Qarni left Qaran for
Kufa , in modern dayIraq . He fought for Ali against the army ofMuawiyah and was killed at theBattle of Siffin in 657. [Attar, "Muslim Saints and Mystics", trans. A.J. Arberry, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983]References
ee also
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Sufism
*Salaf
*Tabi‘in External links
* [http://www.mtoshahmaghsoudi.org Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi (School of Islamic Sufism)]
* [http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/azadari/azadari.pdf The Extreme Mourning of Uwais al-Qarni, Shia Website]
* [http://www.mtoshahmaghsoudi.org/website/PDF/sufismGeneology.pdf Islamic Sufism Genealogy, November 2004, Tehran University Publications]
* [http://naqshbandi.org/topics/uwaysi.htm The Uwaisi Transmission of Spiritual Knowledge (Naqshbandi-Haqqani website)]
* [http://www.sunnah.org/history/Uwais_al_Qarani.htm About Uwais al-Qarni, from "The Children Around the Table of Allah," by Shaykh Muhammad Sa'id al-Jamal ar-Rifa'i]
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