A Muslim Convert Once Before

بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ   Imam Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Karim ibn Huzan al-Qushayri (r.a.) recorded, in his Risalah al-Qushayriyyah , Shaykh Abu Hamid Ahmad ibn Khadrawayh al-Balkhi ( q.s. ) was a great Sufi master of Khurasan, who kept the company of Shaykh Abu Turab Muhammad ibn Husayn an-Nakhshabi ( q.s. ). He arrived in Nishapur, where he visited Abu Hafsw ‘Amr ibn Salamah al-Haddad ( q.s. ).   He then set out to Bustham, in order to meet Shaykh Bayazid Thayfur ibn ‘Isa al-Bisthami ( q.s. ). He was famous for his attachment to futuwwa .   Shaykh Abu Hafsw ( q.s. ) said, about him, “I have seen no one as strongly concentrated on God, and as sincere in his spiritual state as Ahmad ibn Khadrawayh.”   Shaykh Bayazid al-Bisthami ( q.s. ) said, “Ahmad is our teacher.”   Imam al-Qushayri ( r.a. ) said he heard Shaykh Abu ‘Abd ar-Rahman Muhammad ibn al-Husayn as-Sulami ( q.s. ) say, that he heard Shaykh Mansur ibn ‘Abdallah ( r.a. ) say, he heard S...