Abu Muhammad Salih al-Majiri explained

Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (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 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In,^[5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi.^[6]

References

1. J. Spencer Trimingham, John O. Voll, The Sufi Orders in Islam, 1998,, p. 51
2. Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint, p. 140
3. Book: al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ. 2013. Saʻīdī. ʻAbd al-Salām. 52. ar.
4. Book: al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ. 2013. Saʻīdī. ʻAbd al-Salām. 55. ar.
5. Book: al-Minhāj al-wāḍiḥ fī taḥqīq karāmāt Abī Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ. 2013. Saʻīdī. ʻAbd al-Salām. 56. ar.
6. Web site: The Ribats in Morocco and their influence in the spread of knowledge and tasawwuf . bewley.virtualave.net . 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