Shaykh Shablanji, the author of famous book ‘Nur al Absar fi Manaqeb Aal bayt el Nabi al Mukhtar [The light of visions in the virtues of the progeny of the chosen Prophet] whose work has been recognized in various Sunni biographical works. Yusuf Alyan Sarkis records as follows:
Al-Shablanji (the Shaykh) Sayed Hassan bin Mumin bin Hassan Mumin al-Shiblanji, died in first years of the fourteenth century. “Nur al-absar fi manaqib aal-albayt al-mukhtar” and “Is`af al-raghebin fi sirat al-mustafa wa fadhail ahlbayteh altaherin by al-Saban”.
Mu`ajam al-Matbuaat, Volume 1 pages 1100-1101
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Famous researcher Khair al-Deen al-Zarkali (d. 1410) in his famed biographical work ‘Al-Alaam’ records:
“Nur al Absar fi Manaqib Aal bayt al-Nabi al-Mukhtar” by Shaykh Syed known as Mu’min Al-Shiblanji. Printed in Egypt in 1290 H, and it was printed a second time in 1308, the version that I referred to. Al-Alaam, Volume 8 page 347
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Egyptian researcher Umar Raza Kahalah records:
Syed Al-Shiblanji (1290 H)(1873 AD). Syed Mo’mn bin Hasan Al-Shiblanji. A historian that have “Nur al Absar fi Manaqib Aal bayt al-Nabi al-Mukhtar” which was printed in Babolaq in 1290 during his life.
Maujam al-Mualfeen, Volume 4
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Allamah Ismaeel Basha al-Baghdai (d. 1339) records in his famed work ‘Ezah al-Maknun’:
“Fath al-Mannan Tafseer Ghareeb Jumal al-Quran” by Syed Mo’min Al-Shiblanji Al-Masri [Egyptian]. He is now, I mean in 1322 H present in Al-Azhar.
Ezah al-Maknun, Volume 2 page 174
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In his another authority work ‘Hidayat al-Arfeen’ Volume 2 page 483 Allamah Ismaeel Basha Baghdadi records:
Al-Shiblanji Syed Mu’min bin Al Syed Hasan bin Mu’min AL-Shiblanji, he lived in Egypt. He have “Nur al Absar fi Manaqib Aal bayt al-Nabi al-Mukhtar”.
We also read in Volume 2 page 683:
“Nur al Absar fi Manaqib Aal bayt al-Nabi al-Mukhtar”- by Syed Mu`min bin Hasan Mu`min al-Shiblanji.
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Moreover, contemporary Sunni scholar like Mufti Ghulam Rasool; the Mufti from ‘Daar-ul-Uloom Qadriya Jilaniya London’ have relied on Shaykh Shiblanji’s ‘Nur al Absar’ in his works like ‘Jawahir al Uloom’ pages 286-287, in the introduction of his book ‘Imam Zain al-Abdeen’ etc.
Since non of the authentic Sunni scholars/biographers have recorded any objection against Shaykh Shiblanji, therefore we hope that Nawasib will not use their filthy conjectures and prove to be the real adherents of strict Nawasib of Syria who became belligerent and did not spare even one of the top ranking scholars of their school, naming Imam Nasai who advocated for Imam Ali [as]. And Nawasib should not try to expel scholars of their school whose only sin would be to testify the revered rank of the Imams of Ahlulbayt [as].