He Claimed to be a Sufi
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ The noted Sufi, Shaykh Shams ad-Din Abu ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn al-Hadi ( r.a. ) wrote, in his Bad’ al-‘Ilqa bi Labs al-Khirqah , that Shaykh Taqi’ ad-Din Ahmad ibn ‘Abd al-Halim ibn Taymiyyah ( r.a. ) declared himself a follower of several Sufi orders, among them, the Qadiri path of Shaykh Muhyi ad-Din Abu Muhammad ibn Abu Swalih ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani ( q.s. ). He wrote a hundred-page partial commentary covering five of the seventy-eight sermons of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani’s ( q.s. ) Futuh al-Ghayb . In al-Mas’alat at-Tabriziyyah , Shaykh ibn Taymiyyah ( r.a. ) declared, “I wore the blessed Sufi cloak of ‘Abd al-Qadir, there being between him and me, two of the shuyukh .”