Al-Fath al-Mawsili | |
Death Date: | 835 |
Venerated In: | Islam |
Influenced: | Bishr ibn al-Harith |
Abu Naṣr Abu Muḥammad ibn Saʿīd (Arabic: أبو نصر أبو محمد بن سعيد), also known as Shaykh Fathi or Al-Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī was one of the early Muslim Sufi saints.[1] [2] He was born in the Kar district of Mosul, hence he had the epithet Al-Mawsili.[3]
He was a notable Hadith scholar as well as an ascetic.[4] Al-Fath al-Mawsili was also a companion of the fellow scholarly ascetic, Bishr ibn al-Harith.[5] He died in 835 and was buried in his hometown, where a shrine was built over his grave.