| Religion: | Islam |
| Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari | |
| Birth Date: | 26 December 1902[1] |
| Death Date: | 1961 |
| Death Place: | Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality: | Moroccan |
| Ethnicity: | Ghomara |
| Denomination: | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence: | Shafi'i[2] [3] |
| Movement: | Sufism |
Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (26 December 1902-1961) was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco.[4]
Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani.[5]
Like the rest of his family, Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order.[6] Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali claimed that al-Ghumari had chosen to live a very simple life and eschewed material excess.[7]
Although a practitioner of Sufism, Ghumari criticized some Sufis, especially the rival Naqshbandi order.[8] Like Ibn Hazm, Ghumari viewed scholarly differences of opinion as wrong and he often used harsh language when responding to intellectual opponents.[5] [8] Having originally followed the Maliki school of thought like most of Muslim scholarship in Morocco, al-Ghumari later switched to the Shafi'i school for a period and finally opted for absolute independent reasoning.[9] Unlike most of Moroccan scholarship, al-Ghumari opposed the Ash'ari school of theology.[10] Muhammad Abu Khubza, among other Moroccan scholars, also claim that al-Ghumari temporarily adhered to the Zaidiyyah school of Shia Islam.[10]