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Ahmad al-Tijani al-Kitabi

أحمد التجاني الكتياني

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A scholar of the Kitabi family, well known among the tribes of the Maghrib.

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Roles
Scholar
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Contemporary Era
Region
Maghreb
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Spirituality and Sufism

Place in the story

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

Overview

Ahmad al-Tijani ibn Yusuf ibn Bashir al-Kitani, a scholar of the al-Kitani house, known among the tribes of the Maghrib. He was born in 1912 CE (1331 AH) and died in 1937 CE (1356 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

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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Prophetic adab (proper conduct)

The body of proper conduct the believer is commanded in his words, deeds and relations with God and His servants; from the formula 'whoever believes in God and the Last Day' in Abu Hurayra's hadith Ibn Rajab derives that these traits are of the traits of iman and that deeds enter into iman, dividing the hadith's three commands into what belongs to God's rights — speaking good or keeping silent — and what belongs to His servants' rights — honouring the neighbour, withholding harm from him and honouring the guest; he transmits Aswad ibn Asram's report of the Prophet's counsel 'do not say with your tongue except what is good and do not extend your hand except to good', and that the tongue's uprightness is of the traits of iman; Abu Amr ibn al-Salah reports from Abu Muhammad ibn Abi Zayd, the Maliki imam of his time, that the conduct of goodness and all its reins branch from four hadiths: speaking good or keeping silent, leaving what does not concern one, 'do not become angry', and loving for one's brother what one loves for oneself.