3.5.2 - Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Qasim al-Tamimi (Fez, 591/1194)

One of the first shaykhs whom Shaykh Muhyiddin Ibn al-Arabi met in Fez was Shaykh Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Qasim al-Tamimi (d. 603/1206), a Narrator scholar, who memorized the hadith, and the ranks and classes of narrators and their history, in addition to his being a knowledgeable jurist and historian. He traveled to Andalusia and the East, until he reached Sufism and returned to settle in Fez, where he was apprenticed at the hands of Shaykh Abu Madyan and his Shaykh Abu Yaaza.

One of the shaykhs of Abu Abdullah al-Tamimi, whom he accompanied in Ceuta, was Shaykh Abu Muhammad Ibn Ubaydullah al-Hajari who died in 591/1194, one year after Shaykh Muhyiddin met him in Ceuta in 590, as we mentioned in section

ef(ibn-yaghmor above. Maybe at that occasion, the Greatest Shaykh also met al-Tamimi, while studying with the group Sahih al-Bukhari as mentioned above, and he invited him to Fez.

Shaykh Muhammad al-Tamimi was the imam of al-Azhar mosque in Ain al-Khail in Fez, which is still standing until this time, as can be seen in Figure

ef(ainalkhail. In this mosque, Shaykh Muhyiddin met al-Tamimi and attended his congregations and studied with him hadith and related many of his conversations in the Meccan Revelations and other books [Futuhat: I.244, II.6, II.451, IV.549, for example]. Perhaps there, also, that Shaykh Muhyiddin received the rag from Shaykh al-Tamimi for the second time as we shall see in section

ef(rag2 shortly.

[One side of Ain al-Khail Mosque in Fez](One Side of Ain al-Khail Mosque in Fez.

Also in this Mosque, Shaykh Muhyiddin was studying with his friend the states of Shaykh Abu Abdullah al-Dakkak whom he wrote a book in his virtues, called: al-Mustafad fi Manaqib al-Ubbad bi-Madinat Fez wa ma Yaliha min al-Bilad: “The Benefited in the Virtues of Worshipers in the City of Fez and the Counties Around”, but this was apparently during his second stay in Fez in 593 as we shall see further in section

ef(fez2 below.