Hasan al-Basri (حسن البسری) [Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Abi-l-Hasan Yasar al-Basri], (642 - 728 or 737), Arab theologian, was born at Medina. Events August 5 - In the Battle of Maserfield, Penda king of Mercia defeats and kills Oswald, king of Bernicia. ... Events Births Deaths The Danish king Angantyr on Samsoe Categories: 728 ... Events Favila becomes king of Asturias after Pelayos death Births Emperor Kammu of Japan (d. ... The Arabs (Arabic: عرب Ê»arab) are a large and heterogeneous ethnic group found throughout the Middle East and North Africa, originating in the Arabian Peninsula of southwest Asia. ... Theology is literally rational discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, rational discourse). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... This article is about the city of Medina in Saudi Arabia. ...

His father was a freedman of Zaid ibn Thabit, one of the Ansar (Helpers of the Prophet), his mother a client of Umm Salama, a wife of Muhammad. Tradition says that Umm Salama often nursed Hasan in his infancy. He was thus one of the Tabi'un (i.e. of the generation that succeeded the Sahabah). He became a teacher of Basra and founded a school there. Among his pupils was Wasil ibn Ata, the founder of the Mu'tazilites. Ansar (Arabic: الأنصار, meaning aiders, helpers or patrons) refer to the Muslim inhabitants of Medina who welcomed Muhammad and the other Meccan Muslims when they migrated to Medina from Mecca (in an event known as the Hijrah). ... Umm Salama Hind bint Abi Umayya was a wife of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. ... Muhammad (c. ... In the Islamic religion, the Sahaba (Asahaaba,الصحابه) are the companions of the Prophet Muhammad. ... Location of Basra Basra (also spelled BaÅŸrah or Basara; historically sometimes written Busra, Busrah, and the early form Bassorah; Arabic: , Al-Basrah) is the second largest city of Iraq with an estimated population of c. ... Wasil ibn Ata (700 - 748) was a Muslim theologian, and by some accounts is considered the founder of the Mutazilite school of Islamic thought. ... Mutazilah (Arabic المعتزلة al-mu`tazilah) is a theological school of thought within Islam. ...

He himself was a great supporter of orthodoxy and the most important representative of asceticism in the time of its first development. With him fear is the basis of morality, and sadness the characteristic of his religion. Life is only a pilgrimage, and comfort must be denied to subdue the passions. Asceticism denotes a life which is characterized by refraining from worldly pleasures (austerity). ...

Many writers testify to the purity of his life and to his excelling in the virtues of Muhammad's own companions. He was "as if he were in the other world." In politics, too, he adhered to the earliest principles of Islam, being strictly opposed to the inherited caliphate of the Umayyads and a believer in the election of the caliph. Islam (Arabic: ; ( (help· info)), submission (to the will of God)) is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and the worlds second-largest religion. ... The Courtyard of the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus, one of the grandest architectural legacies of the Umayyads. ... Caliph is the term or title for the Islamic leader of the Ummah, or community of Islam. ...

His life is given in Nawawi's Biographical Dictionary (ed. F Wüstenfeld, Göttingen, 1842-1847). Cf. Reinhart Dozy, Essai sur l'histoire de l'islamisme, pp. 201 sqq. (Leiden and Paris, 1879); A von Kremer, Culturgeschichtliche Streifzuge, p. 5 seq.; RA Nicholson, A Literary History of the Arabs, pp. 225-227 (London, 1907). al-Nawawi (Abu Zakariyya Yahiya Ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi) أبو زكريا يحيى بن شرف النووي (born 1233 - 1278), Muslim author on Fiqh and Hadith, was born at Nawa near Damascus. ... Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (February, 1820 - May, 1883), Dutch Arabic scholar of French (Huguenot) origin, was born at Leiden. ...

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