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Key facts
- Born
- Ibrahim ibn Mansour ibn Zayd ibn Jabir Al-'Ijli , c. 718, Balkh
- Died
- c. 782
- Venerated in
- Islam
- Major shrine
- Mosque of Sultan Ibrahim Ibn Adham , Jableh , Syria
- Influences
- Al-Fuḍayl ibn ʻIyāḍ
- Influenced
- Khwaja Sadid ad-Din Huzaifa al-Marashi , Shaqiq al-Balkhi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ibrahim
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Abbasid Caliphate
- Place of birth
- Balkh
- Place of death
- Gabala
- Occupation
- Sufi
- Religion
- Sunni Islam
- Student of
- Al-Fudhayl bin 'Iyyadh
- Image
- Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham of Balkh visited by angels1009 IP.jpg
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- lifestyle
- Sufism
- date of birth
- 0718-05-13
- date of death
- 0776-00-00
- name in native language
- إبراهيم بن أدهم
- Commons category
- Ibrahim ibn Adham
- place of burial
- Gabala
- madhhab
- Hanafism
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Iranica
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Encyclopedic overview
Abou Ben Adhem Shrine Mosque, United States Ibrahim ibn Adham also called Ibrahim Balkhi and Ebrahim-e Adham (Persian: ابراهیم ادهم); c. 718 – c. 782 / AH c. 100 – c. 165 is one of the most prominent of the early Sufi saints known for his zuhd (asceticism).
The story of his conversion is one of the most celebrated in Sufi legend, mentioned in the Tazkirat al-Awliya of Attar of Nishapur . Sufi tradition ascribes to Ibrahim countless acts of righteousness and his humble lifestyle, which contrasted sharply with his early life as the king of Balkh (itself an earlier centre of Buddhism). As recounted by Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Ibrahim emphasized the importance of stillness and meditation for asceticism. Rumi extensively described the legend of Ibrahim in his Masnavi. The most famous of Ibrahim's students is Shaqiq al-Balkhi (d. 810).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ibrahim ibn Adham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.