Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi | |
Birth Name: | Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi |
Birth Date: | 1140/5 |
Birth Place: | Fez, Morocco |
Death Date: | 1207/8 |
Death Place: | Fez, Morocco |
Religion: | Islam |
Occupation: | Hadith Scholar, Biographer |
Notable Works: | Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad |
Influences: | Abu Madyan |
Influenced: | Ibn Arabi |
Al-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi (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]
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]