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Muhammad al-Jazuli

15th-century Moroccan Sufi saint-scholar

Summary

15th-century Moroccan Sufi saint-scholar

Field	Value
religion	Islam
honorific_prefix	Imam
name	Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali
image	CBL Quran.jpg
caption	Copy of Dala'il al-Khayrat at the Chester Beatty Library
title	Imam, Sheikh
birth_date
birth_place	Sous, Morocco
death_date
death_place	Sidi Chiker, Morocco
resting_place	Marrakesh
nationality	Morocco
era	15th century
denomination	Sunni
jurisprudence	Maliki
main_interests	Sufism
notable_works	Dala'il al-Khayrat
Sufi_order	Shadhilia
influences	Abul Hasan ash-Shadhili
influenced	Yusuf an-Nabhani Ahmed Raza Khan Barelvi

Abū 'Abdullah Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān ibn Abū Bakr al-Jazūli al-Simlālī () (d. 1465AD = 870AH), often known as Imam al-Jazuli or Sheikh Jazuli, was a Moroccan Sufi Saint. He is best known for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book. This book is usually divided into 7 sections for each day of the week. Al-Jazuli is one of the seven saints of Marrakesh and is buried in his mausoleum inside the city.

Biography

Muhammad al-Jazuli claimed to be a Sharif (a descent of Muhammad) and belonged to the Berber Jazulin tribe. He lived in the historic Sous area of Morocco, situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains, and studied locally before going to the Madrasat As-Saffarîn in Fez where his room is still pointed out to visitors today. After settling a tribal feud he left the area and spent the next forty years in Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. After his long journey, he returned to Fez where he completed the prayer book Dala'il al-Khayrat.

He was initiated into the Shadhili Tariqa, a Sufi order, by a descendant of Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar, the sheikh of the Banu Amghar. He spent fourteen years in Khalwa (seclusion) and then went to Safi where he gathered around him many followers. The governor of Safi felt obliged to expel him and later poisoned him which led to his death in 1465. He is said to have died during prayer.

It is claimed that in 1541, seventy-seven years after his death, his body was exhumed to be transferred to Marrakesh and found to be uncorrupted.

References

(1877). "The Waymarks to Benefits". [[World Digital Library]].
Fage, J. D. (1977). "The Cambridge History of Africa.". Cambridge University Press.
Akyeampong, Emmanuel Kwaku. (2012-02-02). "Dictionary of African Biography". OUP USA.
Abun-Nasr, Jamil M.. (1987-08-20). "A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period". Cambridge University Press.
Vincent J. Cornell, Realm of the Saint: Power and Authority in Moroccan Sufism (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1998).

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