Shaikh Habib Al-Raee

Suffi Habib Al-Raee (Urdu: حبیب الراعی) was an elevated Sufi saint.^{[citation needed]} He was a companion to Salman Farsi.^[1] His father, Suffi Saleem Al-Raee, was the founder and chief ancestor from whom the Arain originate. He related that Muhammad said, “The believer’s intentions are better than his acts.” He had flocks of sheep and his home was on the bank of the Euphrates.^{[citation needed]} His religious path was retirement from this world.^{[citation needed]}

Habib Al-Raee
Personal life
Born	Euphrates, Syria
Died	Euphrates, Syria
Flourished	7th-century
Children	Suffi Haleem Al-Raee (son)
Parent	Saleem Al-Raee (father)
Religious life
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sufism
Muslim leader
Based in	Euphrates, Syria, present-day Iraq
Predecessor	Salman Farsi

Miracles

A certain suffi relates as follows, “Once I passed by him and found him praying, while a wolf looked after his sheep. I resolved to pay him a visit since he appeared to me to have the marks of greatness. When we had exchanged greetings, I said,”O Suffi ! I see the wolf in accord with the sheep.” He replied, “That is because the shepherd is in accord with God.” ^[2] With those words he held a wooden bowl under a rock and two fountains gushed from the rock: one of milk and the other of honey. ‘O Suffi!’ I cried, as he bade me drink, ‘how hast thou attained to this degree?’He answered,”By obedience to Muhammad, the Apostle of God. O my son! The rock gave water to the people of Moses, although they disobeyed him, and although Moses is not equal in rank to Muhammad: why should not the rock give milk and honey to me, inasmuch as I am obedient to Muhammad, who is superior to Moses?’ I said, “Give me a word of counsel.” He said, “Do not make your heart a coffer of covetousness and your belly a vessel of unlawful things.”^[3]

Spiritual Lineage

Shaikh Habib Al-Raee was a Tabieen i.e. he was a follower of the Companions of Muhammad.^[4]

1. Muhammad
2. Suleman Farsi
3. Shaikh Habib Al-Raee

Ancestral Lineage

The ancestral lineage of Shaikh Habib Al-Raee^[5] is as follows:^[6]

1. Fehr Quraysh/Fihr ibn Malik^[7]
2. Ghalib (patronymic Abu Teem-name Aamir) ^[8]
3. Loee
4. Qais
5. Umar
6. Mugheera^[9]
7. Abdul Dar^[10]
8. Haris
9. Shaikh Saleem Al-Raee
10. Shaikh Habib Al-Raee

Shaikh Haleem Al-Raee son of Shaikh Habib Al-Raee also belonged to the Arain (tribe) and migrated with Muhammad bin Qasim to Multan side of Pakistan with his army.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Tabieen
• Taba al-Tabi‘in
• Sahaba