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Sidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Allah al-Suhayli (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
, Fuengirola
Fuengirola

Fuengirola, in ancient times known as Suel and then Suhayl, is a large town and municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of M?laga and the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia in southern Spain....
 (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an Islamic scholar by his commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham
Ibn Hisham

Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham , or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari....
. Al-Suhayli came to Marrakesh around 1182 at the call of the Almohad
Almohad

The Almohad Dynasty , was a Berber people, Muslim dynasty that was founded in the 12th century, and conquered all northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al-Andalus ....
 sultan
Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
 Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur.






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Sidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman b. Abd Allah al-Suhayli (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus

Al-Andalus was the Arabic name given to the parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Arab Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492....
, Fuengirola
Fuengirola

Fuengirola, in ancient times known as Suel and then Suhayl, is a large town and municipality on the Costa del Sol in the province of M?laga and the autonomous communities of Spain of Andalusia in southern Spain....
 (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an Islamic scholar by his commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham
Ibn Hisham

Abu Muhammad 'Abd al-Malik bin Hisham , or Ibn Hisham edited the biography of Muhammad written by Ibn Ishaq. Ibn Ishaq's work is lost and is now only known in the recensions of Ibn Hisham and Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari....
. Al-Suhayli came to Marrakesh around 1182 at the call of the Almohad
Almohad

The Almohad Dynasty , was a Berber people, Muslim dynasty that was founded in the 12th century, and conquered all northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al-Andalus ....
 sultan
Sultan

Sultan is an Islamic honorifics, with several historical meanings. Originally it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", or "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ???? sulah, meaning "authority" or "power"....
 Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur. He died here three years later, and his zaouia
Zaouia

Zaouia , also spelled zawiya, zawiyah, zaouiya, zaou?a zwaya, etc, is a Maghrebi and West African term for an Islamic religious school or monastery, roughly corresponding to the Eastern term "madrassa"....
, in a cemetery just outside Bab er Robb
Bab er Robb

Bab er Robb is a southern gate exit to the city of Marrakech near Bab Agnaou. It leads to the roads that take you to the mountain towns of Amizmiz and Asni....
 (with entrance only allowed to Muslims), hides a former gate in the wall called Bab el Charia. His tomb is visited yearly by many pilgrims. The cemetery Bab Ech Charia, walled today, is built at the place where the Almohad
Almohad

The Almohad Dynasty , was a Berber people, Muslim dynasty that was founded in the 12th century, and conquered all northern Africa as far as Libya, together with Al-Andalus ....
 troops of Abd El Moumen
Abd al-Mu'min

Abd al-Mu'min was the first Amir of the Almohad Empire. Abd al-Mu'min was a member of the group of Masmuda Berber people living in the Atlas Mountains....
 defeated the Almoravids
Almoravids

The Almoravids were a Berbers dynasty from the Sahara that spread over a wide area of North Africa and the Iberian peninsula during the 11th century....
 in 1147.

Works

  • al-Raw? al-unuf fi šar? al-sira al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišam. wa-ma?ahu al-Sira al-Nabawiyya
    Raud al-Unuf

    Raud al-Unuf is a book by the Islamic scholar Al-Suhayli. . It is a commentary on Ibn Hisham's As-Siratu Nabawiyyah....
     (7 volumes), 1967
  • al-Ta?rif wa-al-i?lam li-ma ubhima min al-Qur?an min al-asma? wa-al-a?lam, Bayrut, 1987
  • Translation in German: Die Kommentare des Suhaili und des Abu ?arr zu den U?ud-Gedichten in der Sira des Ibn Hišam, Schaade, Arthur 1908


See also

  • Marrakesh
  • List of Islamic scholars


External links

  • The seven saints of Marrakesh (Images of the Sidi Shekir conference in Marrakesh) http://www.naqshbandi.org/events/morocco2004/09-12-2004/index120904.htm
  • Image of his mausoleum http://www.emarrakech.info/Sidi-Souhaeil-le-Poete_a3999.html
  • Image of his mausoleum http://www.marrakech-ville.com/sidi-souheili.php
  • Comments from As-Suhayli and An-Nawawi on independent reasoning http://hoodshaykh.blogspot.com/2006/11/comments-from-as-suhayli-and-nawawi.html
  • Discussion on how long Islam and the world in general will last http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/Chapter3/Ch_3_52.htm