Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri

Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Moroccan saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan.^[1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.^[2]

Biography

Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi (Safi). His family were a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid 11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe.^[3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir.^[4] He left Asfi in c. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194,^[5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi.^[6]

References

^ J. Spencer Trimingham, John O. Voll, The Sufi Orders in Islam, 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-512058-5 , p. 51
^ Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint, p. 140
^ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in Arabic). p. 52.
^ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in Arabic). p. 55.
^ Saʻīdī, ʻAbd al-Salām, ed. (2013). al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ (in Arabic). p. 56.
^ "The Ribats in Morocco and their influence in the spread of knowledge and tasawwuf". bewley.virtualave.net. Retrieved September 9, 2008.

Bibliography

Y. Benhima: "L’évolution du peuplement et l’organisation du territoire de la région de Safi à l’époque almohade", in: Los Almohades, Problemas y Perspectivas
Abu Muhammad Silih, Al-Manaqib wa-l-ta'rikh, Rabat, 1990