Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqiti | |
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محمد الأمين الشنقيطي | |
Personal | |
Born | 17 February, 1905 |
Died | January 10, 1974 | (aged 68)
Cause of death | Liver disease |
Resting place | Jannat al-Mu'alla |
Religion | Islam |
Nationality | Mauritanian |
Era | Contemporary |
Denomination | Sunni |
Jurisprudence | Maliki |
Creed | Athari |
Main interest(s) | Hadith, Aqeedah |
Alma mater | University of Madinah |
Occupation | Jurist and writer |
Muslim leader | |
Influenced |
Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqeeti, better known as Ab Ould Akhtar (ca. 1905–1974) was a Saudi Arabian scholar, jurist, interpreter, fundamentalist and linguist, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, and member of the Muslim World League.
Muhammad Al-Amin bin Muhammad Al-Mukhtar bin Abdul Qadir bin Muhammad bin Noah bin Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Al-Mukhtar Al-Jakni Al-Shanqeeti, relative to Yaqoub Al-Jakni Al-Shanqeeti, was born on 17 February 1905, in the city of Tanbah in Mauritania. He grew up as an orphan and his uncles sponsored him and they raised him well and treated him, so he studied in their house the sciences of the Holy Qur'an, the Prophet's biography, literature and history, so that house was his first school. Then he contacted a number of scientists in his country, took them away, and obtained scientific licenses from them. He was known for intelligence, tact, diligence and prestige.
Mohamed El Amin became a Mauritanian scholar and took over the judiciary in his country, where he was trusted by its rulers and rulers. In 1946, he came to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, and it was a scientific trip accompanied by some of his students, around the time when Ibn Saud gave him Saudi citizenship, so he took over teaching at Dar Al-Uloom in Medina in 1950, then moved to Riyadh in 1952 to teach at the Scientific Institute, and the faculties of Sharia and the Arabic language, then worked as a member of the founding council of the Muslim World League, and was one of the first teachers at the Islamic University of Madinah established in 1961, then he was appointed as a member of the University Council, and was appointed as a member of the founding council of the Muslim World League, and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars on 8 August, 1971. His activity extended outside the Kingdom, which in 1966, he traveled to a number of Muslim-majority countries to call to God.
He has many disciples in his birthplace, the Prophet's Mosque and Riyadh, for example: Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz studied him in logic, Sheikh Attia Muhammad Salem, Sheikh Hamoud bin Aqla Al-Shuaibi, Sheikh Hammad Al-Ansari, Sheikh Saad bin Muhammad Al-Shuqairan Mufti in Al-Quwayiyah and the imam and preacher of its old mosque, and Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Aboodah. He studied at the Scientific Institute such as Sheikh Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Barrak, Sheikh Abu Bakr Zayd, and many others who studied it at the university and the Institute and its lessons throughout Saudi Arabia, and those who studied it from other Arab countries, Thana Allah Al-Madani and Sheikh Ahmed Shakir.
Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqeeti died in Makkah after performing Hajj on 10 January, 1974. He was prayed at the Grand Mosque and then buried in the cemetery of Al-Ma'ala in Mecca. As well as the praying for the prayer of the absent in the Prophet's Mosque.