Al-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi (Arabic: محمد بن قاسم التميمي) (born 1140/5, died 1207/8) was a Moroccan Arab hadith scholar and biographer, author of Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad.[1] Al-Tamimi hailed from the Banu Tamim tribe which settled in al-Maghreb and al-Andalus.[2]
Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi | |
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| Born | Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi 1140/5 Fez, Morocco |
| Died | 1207/8 Fez, Morocco |
| Religion | Islam |
| Notable work(s) | Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad |
| Occupation | Hadith Scholar, Biographer |
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This book comprises 81 biographies of Moroccan saints. He wrote a fahrasa in which he recorded the names of his teachers and the works he studied under them, called An-Najm al-mushiqa (The resplendent Star). He studied under Abu Madyan. There are also many references to At-Tamimi in the work of Ibn al-Arabi.[3]
References
edit- ^ ed. M. Chérif, 2002, see also M. Chérif, Le Soufisme almohade d'après le Mustafad de Muhammad Tamimi, in Rencontre Marocco-Andalouse pour les Études Andalouses, Tétouan, 1995, pp. 37-52
- ^ Chérif, Mohamed. Al-Mustafad fi Manaqib al-Ibad bi Madinat Fas wa Mayaliha min al-Bilad of Ibn Qasim al-Tamimi (in Arabic). p. 94.
- ^ John Renard (18 May 2009). Tales of God's friends: Islamic hagiography in translation. University of California Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
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