Biographies

With great sorrow, we announce the passing of our esteemed Shaykh Walī al-Ḥaqq al-Ṣiddīqī on Wednesday, the 6th of Dhū al-Ḥijjah, 1445, corresponding to 12th June 2024, at the age of ninety-nine. To Allāh we belong and to Him we shall return. May Allāh Taʿālā envelop him in His vast mercy and pleasure, illuminate his grave with light, and admit him into the highest ranks of Jannah.

Imām Muḥammad’s name and lineage: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Farqad al-Shaybānī. Al-Qāḍī Abū Khāzim (raḥimahullāh) said: ‘He is originally from a village near Ramla, Palestine.

ʿAṭā’ ibn Abū Rabāḥ raḥimahullāh lived a long life so much so that he attained the age of 100 during which he filled it with knowledge and action. He filled his life with obedience and piety and purified it with abstinence from the world and what people owned and he yearned for that which is with Allāh.

What do you think about the unfathomable worth of a person who possessed all the qualities of perfection in such abundance that they cannot be estimated nor expressed through words. It was not acquired through effort nor tricks, rather through special selection by Allāh ﷻ. This is our beloved Nabi ﷺ, the most virtuous of all mankind, the greatest of them in rank and most perfect of them in merits and virtue.

Al-Dhahabī (raḥimahullāh) said: ‘Abū Ḥanīfah was a devout scholar, who acted upon what he knew. He had a great status and didn’t accept gifts from leaders. Rather, he would trade and earn for himself.’ He also said: ‘He was among the intelligent children of Ādam. He combined jurisprudence with worship, piety and generosity. He didn’t accept gifts from the government, rather he would spend from his earnings. He had a building for silk and had workers and manufacturers.’