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al-Dārānī, Abū Sulaymān
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Abū Sulaymān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. ʿAṭiyya al-ʿAnsī
al-Dārānī (d. c.215/830) was an early mystic. His family belonged to a South Arabian tribe that had settled in Umayyad Syria, but he spent some time in Iraq; a brother of his lived in Baghdad, probably as a merchant (cf. al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī,
Taʾrīkh Baghdād, Cairo 1349/1931, 8:366, no. 4464). He was said to have originated in Wāsiṭ, and he certainly visited the Ṣūfī colony in ʿAbbādān, near Baṣra, possibly under the influence of ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd from Baṣra. In his later years he live…
Source:
Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Date:
2021-07-19
