Name of the Book : Hilyatul Awliyah
Author : Imam abu Nua`aym asbahani as-shaf`i
Translator : Muhammad Asghar Mughal
About the Book :
Hilyatul Awliya wa Tabaqaatul Asfiya (The Adornment of the Saints and the Ranks of the Spiritual Elite) provides with glimpses in to the lives of more than 200 awliya (saints) of this ummah in the first three to four centuries. The Arabic if approx in 6000 Pages in 12 volumes but this is only in 649 pages or so.
The book sold in Abû Nu`aym's lifetime in Naysabûr for four hundred gold dinars and received many editions to our time. Ibn Kathîr praised the work as an illustration of the author's strength in hadîth narration. Ibn al-Subkî relates that this book was among Shaykh ul-Allamah Taqi ud-deen as-subki al-Asha`ri favorite works. Abu Nu`aym stated the following in his introduction:
I have compiled a book that comprises the names, narrations, and sayings of a number of personalities among the most eminent verifying Sufis and their Imams, arranged in the order of their biographical layers (Tabaqaat) and including those famous for abundant worship together with their methods. It begins with the time of the Companions, their Successors, and those who came after them.
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