Saint Hazret Yusuf Al-Hamadani and Shaykh Abdul Qadir Al-Geylani
SHAYKH ABDUL QADIR AL-GEYLAI (Q.S) MEETING WITH KHWAJAH HAZRET SHAYKH YUSUF AL HAMADANI (R.A) In the Name of Allah Most Merciful Most Beneficent Peace and blessings of Allah be upon the Prophet Muhammad and his noble family. In an earlier post I mentioned Ghujdawani (d.1179), the first of the Seven Khwajagan of the Bukhara Oasis. The 9th Grand Shaykh of the Naqshbandi Haqqani Osmanli Sufi Way. Al-Ghujdawani’s (R.A) (the Imam of the Khwajgan way),teacher was Abu Ya`qub Yusuf ibn Ayyab ibn Yusuf ibn al-Husayn al-Hamadani (to give his full name). Yusuf al-Hamadani (May Allah's Blessings be upon him)) was born in 1062 in a village near the city of Hamadan in what was then Khorasan, now Iran. At the age of eighteen he moved to Baghdad where he quickly attained the reputation as one of the leading scholars of his time. According to a biographical Sketch of Hamadani: Later in his life he secluded himself and left the world behind. He became an ascetic and engaged in constant worship
