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**911_993_911** · 03-30-2012, 06:34 AM

Not sure on the answer to this but I shall share the following and remember Allah knows best.

Khidr's appearance at Muhammad's funeral is related as follows:
A powerful-looking, fine-featured, handsome man with a white beard came leaping over the backs of the people till he reached - where the sacred body... lay. Weeping bitterly, he turned toward the Companions and paid his condolences. Abu Bakr and 'Ali said that he was Khidr. (Ibn al-Jazari 1994, p. 228.)

Abu Bakr and 'Ali are the ones to identify him is noteworthy. They are the only two Companions of Muhammad to whom are ascribed esoteric (batini) knowledge. This is why all Sufi silsilas (spiritual chains of investiture) derive from them and them alone. This hidden knowledge is not learned, it must be bestowed by God.

03-30-2012, 06:34 AM	#5
911_993_911 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 574 Senior Member	Not sure on the answer to this but I shall share the following and remember Allah knows best. Khidr's appearance at Muhammad's funeral is related as follows: A powerful-looking, fine-featured, handsome man with a white beard came leaping over the backs of the people till he reached - where the sacred body... lay. Weeping bitterly, he turned toward the Companions and paid his condolences. Abu Bakr and 'Ali said that he was Khidr. (Ibn al-Jazari 1994, p. 228.) Abu Bakr and 'Ali are the ones to identify him is noteworthy. They are the only two Companions of Muhammad to whom are ascribed esoteric (batini) knowledge. This is why all Sufi silsilas (spiritual chains of investiture) derive from them and them alone. This hidden knowledge is not learned, it must be bestowed by God.
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