Investigating Resorting to Shiite Imams and Seeking their Intermediation in Mystical Quatrains Attributed to Abu Saeed Abul-Khayr and the Related Course

Abu Saeed Abul-Khayr (157-440 AH) was one of the prominent mystics of Samanid and Ghaznawid periods, who played a special role in promoting the mystical concepts in Persian poems. The mystical poems attributed to him have been mostly gathered in recent works. Nevertheless, one can find a course of the way and the time of entrance of the Shiite concepts into the mystical quatrains by analyzing those poems. In the present article, we have used an analytical method to investigate the concepts such as resorting to the Infallibles and seeking their intermediation in Abu Saeed’s elegies and supplication poems, and to compare the structure and the concept of these poems with other similar samples of Persian literature to analyze the rightness of attributing them to Abu Saeed and the course of their entrance of the Shiite concepts into mystical quatrains. The results show that although there are common origins between Abu Saeed’s poems and the Shiite thoughts, considering the extant sessions of Sheikh and the type and content of the poems, the Shiite concepts have entered the attributed quatrains after the seventh century and have been attributed to Abu Saeed later on.