Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi

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 hadith scholar and biographer, author of Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad.^[1]

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.^[2]

References

1. ed. M. Chérif, 2002, see also M. Chérif, Le Soufisme almohade d'après le Mustafad de Muhammad Tamimi, in Rencontre Marocco-Andalouse pour les Études Andalouses, Tétouan, 1995, pp. 37-52
2. John Renard (18 May 2009). Tales of God's friends: Islamic hagiography in translation. University of California Press. p. 35. ISBN 978-0-520-25896-9. Retrieved 11 February 2012.