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Life and Influence
He was born in Baghdad or Samarra from a family of Persian origin in Khorasan. Originally he was a high official of Baghdad before entering the spiritual path and becoming the disciple of Junayd Baghdadi.
His name is seen in many works including that of the Persian poets Attar, Rumi, Sanai and others. He is also connected with Hallaj. According to one source, it is said that he was in a constant state of (Jadhb) and was finally commited to an asylum , however it is generally thought that he feigned madness
Attributed to him is the saying: O people! I go to place beyond which these is no beyond. I go to the south and the north, to a place beyond which is there is no beyond. Everything that I saw after that I could see in one hair of my little finger".
References
- Leonard Lewisohn, "The Heritage of Sufism: Classical Persian Sufism from its origins to Rumi", the University of Michigan, 1999. pg 53: "Two Persian Sufis - Mansur Hallaj and Abu Bakr Shibli(d. 945), the latter from Samarqand by origin but born in Baghdad
- S.H. Nasr, "Philosophy and Cosmology" in William Bayne Fisher, Richard Nelson Frye, The Cambridge History of Iran (Vol 4.), William Bayne Fisher, Cambridge University Press, 1975. pp 455
- Leonard Lewisohn, "The Heritage of Sufism: Classical Persian Sufism from its origins to Rumi", the University of Michigan, 1999.
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