| Abu Saleh was respected as a saint by the people of his day, and was known as Jangi Dost meaning "fight-lover" in Persian , which was originally his father's | Volume I A-B New ed |
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| During the 's rule of from 1508 to 1534, the sheikh of the Qadiriyya was appointed chief Sufi of Baghdad and the surrounding lands | [ ] In the morning he taught and , and in the afternoon he held discourse on the science of the heart and the virtues of the |
| A detailed description of his various teachers and subjects are included below | He spent twenty-five years wandering in the deserts of Iraq |
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| 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani 20 January 2019 | Malise Ruthven, Islam in the World, p 243 |