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ajiss-260	Masterton, Rebecca	A Comparative Exploration of the Spiritual Authority of the Awliyā’ in the Shi‘i and Sufi Traditions	2015.0	26	.pdf	application/pdf	11717	560	70	It is not for the Imam to withold it from him who is after him.29 Sunni mystic al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi (d. 900) makes an almost identical statement, but in reference to the proto-Sufis of his time: “Like nubuwwa (prophethood), [walāyah] is a covenant (‘aqd) with God [...] Looking at these and other silsilahs, other such famous names follow on from al-Basri, among them Dawud al-Ta‘i, Sari al-Saqati, Ma‘ruf al-Karkhi, and al-Junayd al-Baghdadi.	cache/ajiss-260.pdf	txt/ajiss-260.txt