[17] Abdullâh al-Hawlânî passed away in Damascus in 62.
[18] Al-basâ’ir li-munkiri ’t-tawassuli bi-ahli ’l-maqâbir, originally edited inPakistan; Istanbul impression, 1980, p. 22.
[19] The prayer is written in the Arabic books Ad-durar as-saniyya and Alfajr as-sâdiq, in Marâq al-falâh and its at-Tahtâwî commentary and at the end of the subject on ‘salât hâjat’ in Ni’met-i İslâm, the Turkish version of the latter two.
[20] Abû ’l-Qâsim Sulaimân at-Tabarânî was an imâm of hadîth. He was born in Tabariyya in 260 and passed away in Isfahan in 360 A.H. (971).
[21] Mir’ât al-Madîna, p. 1049.
[22] See the 32nd article below.
[23] He passed away in Basra in 578 A.H. (1183). His shrine and mosque were repaired and ornamented by the Ottoman Sultân ’Abdulhamîd Khan II.
[24] Sa’îd ibn Musayyab was one of the seven famous ’ulamâ’ in Medina. He passed away in Medina in 91 A.H. (710).
[25] Nâfi’ was one of the prominent among the Tâbi’ûn and formerly a slave freed by ’Abdullâh ibn ’Umâr. He passed away in Medina in 120 A.H. (737).
[26] The Masjid al-Harâm in Mecca, the Masjid an-Nabawî in Medina and the Masjid al-Aqsâ in Quds (Jerusalem).
[27] The names of all these martyrs are written in Mir’ât al-Madîna, from which the foregoing long passage is translated.
[28] Turkish translation published in Istanbul, in 1316 A.H.
[29] Ibn ’Abidîn (rahimah-Allâhu ta’âlâ), who passed away in Damascus in 1252/1836, wrote in the preface to his book Radd al-muhtâr, “Imâm Muhammad ash-Shâfi’î was very modest and respectful to al-Imâm ala’zam Abu Hanîfa (rahimahuma’llâhu ta’âlâ). He said he attained blessing by visiting Abu Hanîfa’s grave, where he performed a tworak’a salât and prayed to Allâhu ta’âlâ when he had a difficult question, the answer of which thus soon occured to him.”
[30] This hadîth sharîf is explained in the Arabic book Al-basâ’ir li-munkiri ’t-tawassuli bi-ahl al-maqâbir (photo-offset reproduction in Istanbul in 1395/1975).