Manaqib Ibnu Atha'illah (Author of Kitab Al-Hikam)
The author of the book of al-Hikam that is quite popular in our country is Tajuddin, Abu al-Fadl, Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Abd al-Karim bin Atho al-Sakandari al-Judzami al-Maliki al-Syadzili. He came from the Arabs. His ancestors came from Judzam, one of the Kabah Kahlan that led to the Bani Ya'rib bin Qohton, the Arab nation famous for Arab al-Aa'ribah.
The city of Alexandria is the birthplace of this great mystic. Somewhere where his family lived and his grandfather taught. Although the name is so fragrant, but when this great Sufi was born there is no firm record. By examining the path of his life DR. Taftazani could suggest that he was born around 658 to 679 H. His father included Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Syadili-the founder of Thariqah al-Shadziliyya-as Ibn Atho 'narrated in his book "Lathoiful Minan": "My father told me, a when I faced Shaykh Abu al-Hasan al-Syadzili, then I heard him say: "By Allah ... you have questioned me about a problem I did not know the answer to, and I found the answer written on pens, mats and walls".
Ibnu Atho's family is a family educated in a religious environment, the grandfather of his father's nasab path was a fiqh scholar of his time.
Tajuddin adolescents have studied at high-level clerics in Alexandria such as al-Faqih Nasiruddin al-Mimbar al-Judzami. The city of Alexandria during the time of Ibnu Atho 'is indeed one of the cities of science on the Egyptian peninsula, because Alexandria is widely decorated by many scholars in the field of fiqh, hadith, suggestion, and arabic sciences, of course also contains many characters tasawwuf and the Auliya 'Sholihin It is therefore not surprising that Ibn Atho'illah grew up as a faqih, as was the hope of his grandfather.
But kefaqihannya continue berlanjt up to the level of Sufism. Which made his grandfather blatantly dislike him. Ibnu Atho 'recounts in his book "Lathoiful minan": "That his grandfather was a person who disagreed with tasawwuf, but they were patient with attacks from his grandfather.
It is here that Ibn 'Atho's teacher Abul Abbas al-Mursy says: "If the son of an al-fiqih of Iskandariah (Ibn Atho'illah) came here, please tell me", and when I came, al-Mursi said: "Gabriel angel had come to the Prophet along with the guardian angel when the quraisy did not believe in the Prophet.
The guardian angel then shook the Prophet and said: "O Muhammad ... if you will, then I will bring two mountains upon them". The Prophet sage wisely said: "No ... I hope that someday will come out the people of unity and not polytheism from them". Likewise, we must be patient with the attitude of the grandfather alim fiqih (grandfather Ibn Atho'illah) for the sake of people who are alim fiqih this ".
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