بســم
اللــه الرحمــن الرحيــم
والصلاــة
والسلاــم علــى نبيــه الكريــم
وعلــى
اهــل بيتــه الطيبيــن الطاهريــن المظلوميــن
والعاقبة
للمتقين
The
ninth century Sufi mystic, Abu Yazid Tayfur b. Isa al-Bistami, popularly known
as Bayazid Bistami, claimed to be a recipient of direct communication from Allah
Subhanahu wa Ta’la, in other words, a Muhaddath. In a well known
incident, while debating with the Ulama of his time, he said to them:
أخذتم علمكم ميتاً عن ميت وأخذنا علمنا عى الحي الذي لا يموت يقول
أمثالنا حدثني قلبي عن ربي وأنتم تقولون حدثنا فلان
“You
take your knowledge from a deceased (narrating) from the deceased, and we take
our knowledge from the Living (Allah) Who will never die. Our example is: ‘my
heart narrated from my Lord’, while you say: ‘So-and-so narrated to us.’”
(Sharh Kalimat al-Sufiya p.165):
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