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Traditional attribution

Ascetic Sayings Transmitted with Chains (Ibn Abi l-Dunya, al-Dhahabi)

أخبار رابعة في كتب الزهد (Ibn Abi l-Dunya; al-Dhahabi, Siyar)

Rabia de Basora y su sirvienta en oración
byRabia al-Adawiyya

A handful of brief scenes: Rabia keeping vigil through the night and reproaching herself for sleep at dawn, correcting Sufyan al-Thawri when he boasts of sorrow, shutting her door to those who talk of the world, preferring a visitor's conversation to the rice pot. They present a severe and lucid ascetic, of recognised authority among the traditionists, without the amorous rhetoric of the later tradition.

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العربية

Authorship note

The oldest and soberest layer of her memory: scenes and sayings transmitted with a chain of witnesses (her servant Abda, Ja'far ibn Sulayman, Riyah al-Qaysi) by Ibn Abi l-Dunya (d. 894) and collected by al-Dhahabi (d. 1348). Their historicity is greater than Attar's, but they remain transmission, not her own writing.

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العربية

  • Siyar a'lam al-nubala', vol. VIII

    Mu'assasat al-Risala, Beirut, 1985

    Translation: al-Dhahabi; ed. Shu'ayb al-Arna'ut y otros

    Sin ISBN localizado; texto de la entrada en Wikisource árabe.

Other works by Rabia al-Adawiyya

Sources

  • al-Dhahabi, Shams al-Din. Siyar a'lam al-nubala', entrada «Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya» (texto árabe en Wikisource).

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