Sayyed Nasir-ud-deen Abu Yusuf Chishti ibn Abu Nasr Muhammad Saman was an early day Sufi Saint.
He was a successor to his maternal uncle and master
Abu Muḥammad Chishti
Abu Muḥammad Chishti () was a famous Sufi of Chishti Order.
Career
Chishti was a disciple of Abu Aḥmad Abdal Chishti and master of Abu Yusuf ibn Saman.
He died in 1020. Abu Muḥammad Chishti was part of golden chain of Chishti Order o ...
, eleventh link in the
Sufi
Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism.
Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
silsila
''Silsila'' () is an Arabic language, Arabic word meaning ''chain'', ''link'', ''connection'' often used in various senses of :wikt:lineage, lineage. In particular, it may be translated as "spiritual genealogy" where one Sufi Master transfe ...
of the
Chishti Order and the father and Master of
Maudood Chishti. Abu Yusuf was a descendant of
Muhammad
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. He died on 13
Rajab 459 AH (May 1067 CE) at the age of 84.
References
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Sufi saints
People from Chisht