Sidi Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Suhayli () (1114 – 1185), was born in

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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 Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It is located on the central coast of the p ...

(formerly called Suhayl) and died in

Marrakesh Marrakesh or Marrakech ( or ; ar, مراكش, murrākuš, ; ber, ⵎⵕⵕⴰⴽⵛ, translit=mṛṛakc}) is the fourth largest city in the Kingdom of Morocco. It is one of the four Imperial cities of Morocco and is the capital of the Marrakes ...

. He is one of the

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of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He is especially well known as an

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by his commentary on the '' sira'' of

Ibn Hisham Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Hishām ibn Ayyūb al-Ḥimyarī al-Muʿāfirī al-Baṣrī ( ar, أبو محمد عبدالملك بن هشام ابن أيوب الحميري المعافري البصري; died 7 May 833), or Ibn Hisham, e ...

. Al-Suhayli came to

around 1182 at the call of the

Almohad The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the unity of God) was a North African Berber Muslim empire fou ...

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Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur. He died here three years later, and his '' zaouia,'' in a cemetery just outside

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(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

troops of Abd El Moumen defeated the

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in 1147.

Works

*''al-Rawḍ al-unuf fī šarḥ al-sīra al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišām. wa-maʿahu al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya'' (7 volumes), 1967 *''al-Taʿrīf wa-al-iʿlām li-mā ubhima min al-Qurʾān min al-asmāʾ wa-al-aʿlām,'' Bayrut, 1987 *Translation in German: ''Die Kommentare des Suhailī und des Abū Ḍarr zu den Uḥud-Gedichten in der Sīra des Ibn Hišam,'' Schaade, Arthur 1908

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*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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Suhayli People from Fuengirola 1114 births 1185 deaths 12th-century Arabs People from the Almohad Caliphate 12th-century Al-Andalus writers 12th-century jurists

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