At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · mystic
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Colonial Era
- Region
- Maghreb
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ahmad al-Saghir ibn Hamallah al-Tishitti, a Sufi scholar from the Maghrib al-Kabir. The encyclopaedia describes him as an excellent, righteous scholar whose lineage ends with al-Muslimi, and he became known as al-Saghir. He was born in 1809 CE (1224 AH) and died in 1855 CE (1272 AH). 1
Both dates are recorded as reported dates and need an additional source. The rest of his life needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
Prophetic adab (proper conduct)· Akhi Baba (title of the guild shaykh and tanners' head)· The angelic and the satanic inspiration (lamma)· Asking people for help (al-masala)· The soul (nafs) and the spirit (ruh)· Tabattul (withdrawal from the world)· Intimacy with God (uns billah)· Certainty and its degrees (yaqin)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ahmad al-Saghir ibn Hamallah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-al-saghir-ibn-hamallah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.