The Time Gap Between Khwaja Mu‘in al-Din Ajmeri and Hazrat ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani

Question

Question: how great is the gap in time between Hazrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir Fakhr al-Din Jilani ﵀ and Hazrat Khwaja Mu‘in al-Din Chishti ﵀? Is Hazrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir Muhyi al-Din Jilani among the Tabi‘un?

Answer

The two saints’ lifetimes are close to one another; neither of them belongs to the Tabi‘un — rather, both of these personages lived in the sixth-seventh century [of the Hijra].

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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