Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari | |
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Personal | |
Born | Friday, 26 December 1902 [1] |
Died | 1961 |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Moroccan |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Shafi'i [2] [3] |
Movement | Sufism |
Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco. [4]
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]
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]