Al-Tanasi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah · Islam Museum

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Roles: muhaddith · Scholar
Counted among: Sunni
Era: The Gunpowder Empires
Region: Maghreb
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Life in time

The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks · The Gunpowder Empires · The Mongol and Post-Mongol Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Baqi Yazdi · Taj al-Din 'Abd al-Wahhab ibn 'Arabshah · Mahmud ibn Ahmad Ibn al-Amshati · Shihab al-Din Ibn Hajji al-Hisbani · Ibrahim ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi

Scripture and its sciences

Place in the story

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Overview

Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Jalil al-Tanasi al-Tilimsani, a memoriser from Tlemcen, probably born in the city of Madin. ¹

The encyclopaedia gives his birth as 820 AH (1417 CE) and his death as 899 AH (1494 CE). ¹

His works and teachers need an additional source.

People and things also explored

The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· The Prophetic Sunna· Command, prohibition and capacity· The Sunna as explanation of the Qur'an· Bid'a (religious innovation)

Sources

Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO

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islam.museum contributors. “Al-Tanasi, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-tanasi-muhammad-ibn-abd-allah/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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