Series of Amazigh Scholars after Islam - (Ibn Ajrum Al-Sanhaji)
A Amazigh linguist whose origins go back to the famous Amazigh Sanhaja tribe that Ibn Khaldun spoke about. Ajrum is a Amazigh word meaning ascetic in money and a mystic. Ibn Ajrum was born in Fez in the year 1273 AD - he died in 1323 AD. He was famous for his book Al-Ajrumiyah, which is considered one of the most important Arabic grammar books and which was adopted in teaching Arabic in The East for six centuries
He is attributed to the Sanhaja tribe in Morocco, and he was nicknamed Ibn Ajrum, which is an Amazigh word meaning the poor Sufi. His grandfather, Daoud, was the first to know this title. He began his studies in his hometown of Fez and received his first lessons in readings, jurisprudence, hadith, speech, interpretation, and other sciences of Sharia and Arabic sciences, from its most famous scholars, and he traveled. He went to Cairo to continue his pursuit of knowledge, and he stayed there for a while and accompanied Abu Hayyan Muhammad bin Yusuf Al-Gharnati, the Andalusian grammarian, and studied the sciences of language and grammar under him and received his leave. He went to Mecca in order to perform Hajj, and he stayed there for some time and devoted himself to writing his introduction to Al-Ajurumiyyah. He returned to Fez after he had become well versed in science, collecting extensive knowledge, delving into the legal sciences, and becoming very familiar with them. He was not limited to one type of them, but rather he encompassed most of them, so attention turned to him. The students of knowledge gathered around him, and he sat to teach and teach grammar and the Qur’an in the Andalusian neighborhood mosque.
Ibn Ajrum was famous for his intelligence, acumen, piety, righteousness, and breadth of knowledge. He excelled in readings, the Arabic language, and its sciences, and his fame reached great heights. Scholars praised him and praised his academic standing. His contemporaries described him as a jurist, writer, mathematician, imam in grammar, and skilled in other sciences, including Tajweed and reading the Holy Qur’an. Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali said: “Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Dawud al-Sanhaji is a famous grammarian, the author of the famous introduction to Al-Ajrumiyyah,” and Ibn Maktoum said in his memoirs: “A brilliant grammarian and writer, and he has compilations and reviews on recitations and other things.” Some scholars said about him that he is: “The famous With blessing and righteousness, and the generality of benefit is attested to by its introduction.” Al-Suyuti said: “The commentators on his introduction, such as Al-Makudi, Al-Ra’i and others, described him as an imamate in grammar, blessing, and righteousness, and his righteousness is attested by the general benefit of beginners with his introduction.”
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