Bio: Sh. ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Majdhub | الشيخ عبد الرحمان المجذوب
Shaykh 'Abd al-Rahman al-Majdhub "The Attracted"
القطب أبو محمد عبد الرحمن بن عیاد الصنھاجي المعروف بالمجذوبSidi Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd Ar-Raḥmān b. ʿAyyād aṣ-Ṣanhājī, known as “al-Majdhūb” (the Attracted)
b. 909 H. in Azzemour – d.976 H. in Meknes
qaddasa Allah sirrahu
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الشيخ علي الصنهاجي الدوار (d.947 in Fas)
He passed it on to Sayyidi Sh Yūsuf Al-Fasi
الشيخ يوسف الفاسي (d.1013 in Fas)
– may Allah ble pleased with them all
English
عربي
Burial Place
Maqam of Sidi ‘Abdur-Rahman al-Majdhub in Meknes
He died, may Allah have mercy on him, at midnight on the eve of Friday, which was also the eve of the ʿĪd al-Aḍḥā, by a bridge in the region of ʿAwf. They took his body to Meknes and buried him by the Bāb ʿĪsā gate there beside the grave of Sidi ʿImrān b. Mūsā on the morning of Sunday the 12th of Dhul-Ḥijja, 976 AH. His student and heir Shaykh Abul-Maḥāsin Sidi Yūsuf al-Fāsī built a tomb for him. (Kuhin)
Abderrahman died on 26 May 1568 in the Marshaqa village in the habt region.[6] As requested by his will, he was buried in Meknes on 29 May 1568, near the Aissa gate, where later the mausoleum of Moulay Ismail was built.[7][6] The dome above his tomb was built by his student Abu l-Mahasin Yusuf al-Fasi.[6] The tomb attracts many visitors every day.[8]
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