Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi

Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (Arabic: تقي الدين أبي الطيب محمد بن أحمد الفاسي‎, 1373 CE/775 AH – 1429 CE/832 AH) was a Muslim scholar, hafith, faqih, historian, and Maliki qadi (judge) in Mecca.^[1]

He is best known for his works on the history of Mecca and its rulers and notable natives, which reached around 18 works.^[2] He also wrote on the genealogies of some Arab tribes of Tihamah.

Life

He was born on September 8, 1373 in Mecca, but spent part of his early life in al-Madinah al-Nabawiyah. He eventually returned to Mecca where he took knowledge from its scholars.^[3] He went blind four years before his death.

Works

• Al-ʻIqd al-thamīn fī tārīkh al-Balad al-Amīn (العقد الثمين فى تاريخ البلد الأمين): His largest and most important work, and probably the largest in the field of Meccan history, where he compiled the biographies of Meccans from the early days of Islam up until his time.
• Shifāʼ al-gharām bi-akhbār al-Balad al-Ḥarām (شفاء الغرام بأخبار البلد الحرام)
• Al-Muqniʻ min akhbār al-mulūk wa-al-khulafāʼ wa-wulāt Makkah al-shurafā (المقنع من أخبار الملوك والخلفاء وولاة مكة الشرفاء)
• Al-Zuhūr al-muqtaṭafah min tārīkh Makkah al-Musharrafah (الزهور المقتطفة من تاريخ مكة المشرفة)
• Dhayl al-taqīīd fī rūāh al-sunan wa al-masānīd (ذيل التقييد بمعرفة رواة السنن والمسانيد)

References

1. Ibn Fahd, Taqī al-Dīn Muḥammad. Laḥẓ al-Alḥāẓ bi-Dhayl Ṭabaqāt al-Ḥuffāẓ. p. 291.
2. Al-dāmigh, Fahd ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz Muḥammad (1991). Taqī al-Dīn al-Fasi wa-manhajuhu fī al-tadwīn al-tārīkhī ʻinda al-ʻArab. p. 142.
3. Hīlah, Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb (1994). al-Tārīkh wa-al-muʼarrikhūn bi-Makkah min al-qarn al-thālith al-Hijrī ilá al-qarn al-thālith ʻashar : jamʻ wa-ʻarḍ wa-taʻrīf. p. 114.