Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi

Who was Muhammad ibn `Ali at-Tirmidhi?

Al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, full name Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī al-Ḥanafī, not to be confused with the famous hadith master Abū ʿĪsā al-Tirmidhī, was a Sunni jurist and traditionist of Khorasan, but is mostly remembered as one of the great early authors of Sufism. His full name is: Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Ali bin Hasan bin Bashir Al Hakim At-Termizi. He is locally known as At-Termizi or Termiz Ota.

Information about his life and scientific and creative activities can be found in the works by Taj ad-Din Subki, Hatiba Baghdad, Ibn Hajara AskAlani, Sulami and in a number of other treatises.

Al Hakim At-Termizi speaks about his life in his book Bad'u Shaani Abu Abdullah, published in Beirut in 1965 by Yakh'ya Ismail Usman, together with the work of the scientist in Hatm Al-Avliya.