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Ahmad al-Ghumari

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Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari
Personal
Born26 December 1902[1]
Died1961
Cairo, Egypt
ReligionIslam
NationalityMoroccan
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceShafi'i[2][3]
MovementSufism

Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (26 December 1902-1961) was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco.[4]

Career

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Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani.[5]

Like the rest of his family, Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order.[6] Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali claimed that al-Ghumari had chosen to live a very simple life and eschewed material excess.[7]

Views

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Although a practitioner of Sufism, Ghumari criticized some Sufis, especially the rival Naqshbandi order.[8] Like Ibn Hazm, Ghumari viewed scholarly differences of opinion as wrong and he often used harsh language when responding to intellectual opponents.[5][8] Having originally followed the Maliki school of thought like most of Muslim scholarship in Morocco, al-Ghumari later switched to the Shafi'i school for a period and finally opted for absolute independent reasoning.[9] Unlike most of Moroccan scholarship, al-Ghumari opposed the Ash'ari school of theology.[10] Muhammad Abu Khubza, among other Moroccan scholars, also claim that al-Ghumari temporarily adhered to the Zaidiyyah school of Shia Islam.[10]

Works

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  • Tabyin al-balah mimman ankara wujud hadith Wa-man lagha fa-la jumu'ah lahu. Dar al-Basa`ir, 1982.[11]

Citations

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  1. ^ Islamic Finder date conversion for 27 Ramadan 1320
  2. ^ Oleg Grabar (1990). Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Brill Publishers. p. 21. ISBN 9789004093478.
  3. ^ "A Short Biography of Ahmad b. al-Siddiq al-Ghumari". elwahabiya.com.
  4. ^ Mustafa Shah, The Hạdīth: Scholarship, perspectives, and criticism, Routledge, 2010, p. 210
  5. ^ a b Muhammad Moin, "Ahmed Al-Ghumari on Al-Albani". Al-Sunnah: 8 March 2011.
  6. ^ Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari, Ma Yajuz wa ma la Yajuz fi al-Hayat al-Zawjiyyah, pg. 9. Amman: Dar al-Fath, 2009. ISBN 9789957231309
  7. ^ Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari, pg. 58. Amman: Dar al-Bayariq, 2001. Jordanian National Library #2001/6/1146
  8. ^ a b Gibril Haddad, The Ghumari School. 6 December 2002: Living Islam. Last updated 2 June 2003.
  9. ^ Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh, pgs. 61-62.
  10. ^ a b Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh, pg. 62.
  11. ^ Tabyin al-balah at Amazon.co.uk
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