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Arystan-Bab (Arslan Bab) is a Central Asian Saint. According to one version, a descendant of Imam Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafi, uncle and first teacher of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. According to another version, the long-liver, a companion of the prophet Muhammad, who fulfilled the instruction (Amanat) of the prophet in respect of Yasawi. The mausoleum in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan is a place of pilgrimage.

The evolution of the Saint.
Scientists believe that Arystan Bab is a semi-legendary figure of Kazakh mythology. His original cult was associated with water sources and the forces of nature. In its subsequent development, it went through four stages.

First-stage

First, the image survived the impact kahtanis (South Arabian) tradition. In the resulting version of the myth Arslan Bab was a tribesman of the prophet Hood, was a huge growth and lived 340 years. He knew the basics of 33 religions and eventually preferred Islam.

Second stage
The period of influence of the Shiite sect chicanito did Arslan Baba is a descendant of Imam Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafia (636-701), son of Imam Ali, and bestowed the title of "Bab" (which means a person who possesses an extraordinary knowledge). For example, this version sticks to the Molla Musa, a Sairam, author of the treatise "history of the rulers of Kashgar" and a direct descendant of Arslan Baba. According to his genealogy, the Saint is also the uncle of his disciple Khoja Ahmed Yasawi.

Third stage
Samarkand theologian Najmuddin al-Nasafi (1067-1042) reports that in the XI century in Farab lived a companion of the prophet named Yahya Ibn Nastur al-Rumi. He was over 340 years old, he passed 14 hadiths directly from Muhammad. According to a common legend, Arslan Bab received personally from the hands of the prophet rags and one date with instructions (Amanat) to give them to Khoja Ahmed, son of Shaykh Ibrahim, who is to be born in Sairam.

Fourth stage
At the last stage Arslan Bab becomes the mentor of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi (1103-1166), the founder of the influential Sufi tariqa Yasawi. According to one version, the Saint was the eldest of the sheikhs of the city of YASA and became the first teacher for the young Ahmed, who later continued his education with Yusuf hamadani in Bukhara.

Memory
He was buried in the mausoleum of the same name in Otrar (now Shaulder village of Turkestan region of Kazakhstan). Visiting the mausoleum and spending the night at the grave of Arslan Baba is one of the main stages in the pilgrimage (ziyarat) to the mausoleum of Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan. Two more Holy places with his name are known: one in the Bazaar-Korgon district of Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan (in 2003 there was found a document-genealogy issued to the direct descendants of Arslan Baba), and the other — in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya.