3.5.4 - Abu Abdullah al-Mahdawi (Fez)

Not to be confused with Shaykh Abdul-Aziz al-Mahdawi, whom we mentioned in section

ef(al-mahdawi above, Abu Abdullah al-Mahdawi, also from al-Mahdia, but he lived in Fez for sixty-four years. He was very occupied with the salvation of his soul and I was told that he often suffered great anguish on this account. For a period of sixty years until he died he never turned his back on the Qiblah.

Shaykh Muhyiddin adds: I stood next to him in the mosque one day and he did not know me. I therefore pressed upon him in the row in which we were praying, so that I was partly sitting on him, and I behaved as badly as I could in such a place. Then he looked up at me and said, Behave yourself. You have plenty of room, so do not press upon me. I do not wish to fight with the likes of you. afterwards he warmed to me and I became his companion and benefited from his grace.