Shrine of Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas رضي الله عنه: A Great Warrior | How Islam came to China?: Journeys With Jawad-Dec 5, 2024
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A Great Sahabi (Companion), Hero and Warrior, Sa'ad Ibn Abi Waqqas رضي الله عنه's Shrine in Guangzhou, China. He was the Maternal Uncle of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. A Very Spiritual, Holy and Mystical feeling when I visited the shrine.Wikipedia:
"Saʿd ibn Abī Waqqāṣ ibn Wuhayb al-Zuhrī رضي الله عنه was a Muslim Commander. He was the Founder of Kufa (Iraq) and served as its Governor under Umar tbn al-Khattab رضي الله عنه. He played a leading role in the Muslim Conquest of Persia and was a close Companion the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ."https://wardahbooks.com/products/saadibnabiwaqqasmuslimsinchina
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PDF:Sa'd binAbi Waqqas: The Lion in the Den: Abdul Basit Ahmad-Kalamullah
by Narin Hikma (Author)
You know the feeling. You held back when you could have struck. You stayed quiet when a sharp word would have won. And the people you love most called it weakness, or never understood it at all.
Lowering the Bow is the life of Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas, told as a narrative biography from the earliest Muslim sources. He believed at seventeen, when he counted himself a third of Islam. He shot the first arrow of the new faith, guarded the Prophet's door at night, and took arrows from the Prophet's own quiver in the worst hour of Uhud. He commanded the victory at Qadisiyyah lying face down on a rooftop, too sick to ride, and founded the city of Kufa. Then that city accused him of not knowing how to pray.
When the Muslims turned their swords on one another, he set his bow down. He would fight, he said, only if someone brought him a sword with eyes that could tell a believer from an unbeliever. He told his own ambitious son that God loves the servant who is hidden. And after his death, that son rode out at Karbala and asked the field to witness that he was the first to shoot.
In these pages you will:Walk beside a man who had every reason to reach for power and chose, again and again, not to
See what restraint costs when the whole world calls it cowardice
Feel the ache of a parent who cannot hand his hardest lesson to his child
Meet a Companion of the Prophet as the sources actually remember him, faults included
Every quotation from Sa'd, the Prophet and the Companions is traced to a named source. Where the record is strong, the book says so. Where it is weak, or silent, the book says that too, and leaves the silence honest. Even the famous tomb in a Chinese garden is examined, gently, and set aside.
This is a book for anyone who has ever lowered a weapon they could still have used, and for every parent who has wondered what can truly be passed down.
You can give them everything you own. You cannot give them what it cost you to become who you are.
Article:Little Mecca in Canton: representations and resurgences of the graveyard of Sa’d ibn Abī Waqqās: Janice Hyeju Jeong-Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany History and Anthropology, 2022. Routledge
Abstract:The tomb of Sa’d ibn Abī Waqqās, a Companion of the Prophet Muhammad mythologized to have as having been buried in Canton, has attracted pilgrims from across China and beyond for the past three centuries. The repertoire on Abī Waqqās, an arriver from Mecca buried in Canton, is intriguing less for its factual veracity than the its manifold afterlives of the personage. This paper expands the scope of existing scholarship on Islam in China by directing attention to the previously unexamined textual corpus– stele inscriptions, imperial geographic surveys, mosque records, print periodicals, and recent unofficial historical surveys that date between from the fourteenth century and to the present. Transported between different mediums, Abī Waqqās as an ancestral figure has provided a powerful regenerative force for Chinese Muslims’ historical consciousness that unfolds through a circular rather than linear time, and incorporates distant geographies without physical mobility. Moving beyond the textual realm, repetitions of the narrative materialized into a cemetery– a focal point that has mediated long-distance travels and donation networks; absorbed hybrid religious rituals ranging from ancestor worship grave rituals to dhikr practices; and capitalized on the Chinese state’s rhetoric of silk roads diplomacy. By unearthing rediscoveries of a symbolic figure through tides of time, the article shows how a supposedly unscientific myth narrativized conceptions of dual homes, here and elsewhere, and further established a regional Islamic hub, or a “little Mecca” in coastal China.
Article: History of Islam in China:Muslim Ink-Dec14,2020
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