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عُبَيْد الله الْأَحْرَار السَّمَرْقَنْدِي

ʿUbaydullāh al-Aḥrār as-Samarqandī

quddisa sirruhu — may his secret be sanctified

806 – 895 AH / 1404 – 1490

his portrait is written, not drawn

The master whose spiritual authority steadied kings and whose wealth served the poor; the path's great renewer in Samarqand.

stationWalī
born806 AH
returned895 AH
day keptOne

His portrait is his lamp: no image survives, and none is needed.

His Daysأَيَّامُهُ

Urs of Mawlāna Ubaydullaāh Ahrār12 Rabīʿ al-Awwal

Days of the Islamic calendar kept in his memory — each opens in the prayer book.