Scholars On Tasawwuf

Information by Ahl as-Sunna wal-Jama`ah about the Purification of the Soul, the Islamic Science of Tasawwuf

al-Hasan al-Basri (d. 110)

Imam Abu Hanifa (d. 150)

Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 161)

Imam Malik (d. 179)

Imam Shafi`i (d. 204)

Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (d. 241)

al-Harith al-Muhasibi (d. 243)

al-Qasim ibn `Uthman al-Ju`i (d. 248)

Imam al-Junayd al-Baghdadi (d. 297)

al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d. 320)

Imam Abu Mansur `Abd al-Qahir al-Baghdadi (d. 429)

Imam Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri (d. 465)

Shaykh Abu Isma`il `Abd Allah al-Harawi al-Ansari (d. 481)

Hujjat al-Islam Imam Ghazali (d. 505)

Abu al-Wafa’ Ibn `Aqil al-Hanbali (d. 513)

Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir al-Gilani (d. 561)

Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597)

Imam Fakhr al-Din Razi (d. 606)

Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili (d. 656)

al-`Izz ibn `Abd al-Salam al-Sulami (d. 660)

Imam Nawawi (d. 676)

`Abd al-Salam b. Ahmad b. `Anim al-Maqdisi (d. 678)

Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728)

Ibn `Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari (d. 709)

Taj al-Din al-Subki (d. 771)

Imam Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi al-Maliki (d. 790)

Ibn Khaldun (d. 808)

Imam al-Sakhawi (d. 902)

Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 911)

Zakariyya ibn Muhammad Ansari (d. 926)

Ibn Hajar al-Haytami (d. 974)

`Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha`rani (d. 973)

Mulla `Ali al-Qari (d. 1014)

Ibn `Abidin (d. 1252)

Abu al-`Ala’ al-Mawdudi (d. 1399)

Shaykh Yusuf al-Qaradawi

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