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45 Reported by Ibn 'Abbaas and collected by at-Tirmidhee. See An-Nawawi's Forty Hadith, (English Trans.), p.68.

46 Soorah al-Baqarah, 2:186.

47 Soorah Qaaf, 50:16.

48 Sunan Abu Dawud, vol.1, p.387, no.1474.

49 Soorah al-Anbiyaa, 21:66.

50 Soorah al-A'raaf, 7:194.

51 Abdul-Qaadir (1077-1166) was a principal of a school of Hanbalite Law and a Ribaat (monastery) in Baghdad. His Sermons (collected in al-Fat-h ar-Rabbaane, Cairo 1302) were strictly orthodox with some, mystic interpretations of the Qur'aan. Ibn 'Arabee (born 1165) declared him the Qutb of his time and stated that he had a rank which placed him above all beings except God. 'Alee ibn Yousuf ash-Shattanawfee (d. 1314 CE) wrote a book called Bahjat al-Asraar (Cairo, 1304) in which he attributed many miracles to 'Abdul-Qaadir. The Qaadireeyah Sufi order is named after him and its spiritual exercises and regulations traced back to him. (Shorter Encyclopedia of Islam, pp.5-7 and 202-205).

52 Soorah al-An'aam, 6:17.

53 Soorah az-Zumar, 39:3.

54 Faatimah was the Prophet Muhammad's youngest daughter who married the Prophet's cousin 'Alee ibn Abee Taalib, and Hasan and Husayn were their sons.

55 Soorah al-Baqarah, 2:165.

56 Soorah at-Tawbah 9:13.

57 Soorah al-Maa'idah, 5:23.

58 Soorah al-Maa'idah, 5:44.

59 Soorah at-Tawbah, 9:31.

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