About Ya'qub al-Jarkhi
Lived 1359 – 1447 (aged 87–88). Ya'qub al-Jarkhi was a theologian and sufi.
Yaʿqūb ibn ʿUthmān ibn Maḥmūd al-Charkhī was a Naqshbandi Sufi pir and student of Khwaja Sayyid Alauddin Atar. Yaqub Charkhi was born in 762, in a village called Charkh in Logar, Afghanistan AH and died in 851. He was a Sufi master and also a reputed Islamic scholar.
He was born around 762 AH (1360/61) and died on Saturday 5 Safar 851 AH (22 April 1447). His shrine, according to some research scholars, lies 5 kilometres West of Dushanbe the capital of Tajikistan. Yaqub al-Charkhi was teacher of famous Sufi Khwaja Ahrar
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Ya'qub al-Jarkhi was born in 1359 in Ghazni, Afghanistan.
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Ya'qub al-Jarkhi died on 22 April 1447 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
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Ya'qub al-Jarkhi was a theologian and sufi.
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