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

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(formerly called Suhayl) and died in

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. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He wrote a commentary on the '' sira'' of

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*''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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Suhayli People from Fuengirola 1114 births 1185 deaths 12th-century Arab people People from the Almohad Caliphate 12th-century writers from al-Andalus 12th-century jurists Malikis

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