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Sidi Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali (died
1465) was a
Marinid Sufi leader of the
Berber tribe of the
Jazulah who lived in the
Sus area of nowadays is
Morocco between the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains. He is especially famous for compiling the
Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular
Muslim prayer book and he's known by many Moroccans as one the seven saints of
Marrakesh.
He studied locally and then went to the Madrasat As-Saffarîn in
Fez where his room is still pointed out to visitors today. In Fes he memorized works of usul al-fiqh and Maliki law, such as Ibn al-Hajib’s Mukhtasr al-Far’i and Sahnun’s Al-Mudawwana al-Kubra. He also met the famous jurist and mystic Sheikh
Ahmad Zarruq. After settling a tribal feud he left the area and spent the next forty years in Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. After his long journey, he returned to Fez where he completed the prayer book
Dala'il al-Khayrat.
He was initiated into the
Shadhili Tariqa, a Sufi order, by a descendant of moulay
Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar, the sheikh of the Banu Amghar. He spent fourteen years in
Khalwa (seclusion) and then went to
Safi where he gathered around him many followers. The governor of
Safi felt obliged to expel him and later poisoned him which caused his death in 869 A.H. (or 1464). He is said to have died during prayer. His tomb in Afoughal became the center of the Saadian resistance against the
Portuguese. His deep respect for al-Jazouli was the reason that
Abu Abdallah al-Qaim chose Afoughal as his residence.
Seventy-seven years after his death (in 1541) his body was exhumed to be transferred to
Marrakesh and found to be uncorrupted. In the northern part of the medina of
Marrakesh the Saadian sultan
Ahmad al-Araj (1517-1544) had a mausoleum built for al-Jazouli. The mausoleum was enlarged and partly rebuilt during the reign of the sultans
Moulay Ismael and
Mohammed Ben Abdallah.
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