Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance : English Translation of Al Muhasibi's Risala al Mustarshidin (Zaid Shakir)Imam Abu Abdullah al Harityh bin Asad al Muhasibi, who was born in the Iraqi port city of Basra in 165 781, and passed away in 243 857 at Baghdad, is one of the most important scholars of the formative period of the Islamic sciences. His most important contribution is in the area of character reformation, and formulating a spiritually based moral psychology. In this translation of his, Risala al Mustarshidin (Treatise for the Seekers of Guidance),