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Bismillah al-Rahman al-Raheem was-salaat was-salaam `alaa Rasul-illah wa ‘alaa alihi wa sahbihi wa sallam
Sufyan al-Thawri (Rahmatullahi ’alayh) (d. 161)
Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya relates in Madarij al-salikin, and Ibn al-Jawzi in the chapter entitled ‘Abu Hashim al-Zahid’ in his Sifat al-safwa after the early hadith master Abu Nu`aym in his Hilyat al-awliya’, that Sufyan al-Thawri said: [...]
