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Ali Hujwiri was born in Ghazni, in present-day Afghanistan, in around 1009 to Uthman ibn Ali or Bu Ali. He is a direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad through his father who was a direct descendant of Al-Imam Hasan ibn Ali. His genealogical chain goes back eight generations to Ali According to the autobiographical information recorded in his own Kashf al-maḥjūb, it is evident that Ali Hujwiri travelled "widely through the Ghaznavid Empire and beyond, spending considerable time in Baghdad, Nishapur, and Damascus, where he met many of the pre-eminent Ṣūfīs of his time."^[In matters of jurisprudence, he received training in the Hanafi rite of orthodox Sunni law under various teachers. As for his Sufic training, he was linked through his teacher al-Khuttalī to al-Husrī, Abu Bakr Shibli (d. 946), and Junayd of Baghdad (d. 910). For a short period of time, the mystic is believed to have lived in Iraq,where he first became wealthy but late fell into debt.^[ His brief marriage during this period of time is said to have been unhappy Eventually Eventually Ali Hujwiri settled in Lahore, where he died with the reputation of a renowned preacher and teacher.^] His last few years, however, were not free of struggle, as he was imprisoned for some time for "the lack of the books he had left at Ghazni."After his death, Ali Hujwiri was unanimously regarded as a great saint by popular acclaim