Al-Bannani

Sīdī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bannānī (; (Full name: Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn Masʿūd al-Bannānī He studied under many of the scholars of his time including al-Tayyib al-Wazzani and the Sufi Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak (author of Kitab al-Ibriz).) After a period of study, he became the imam and khatib of the Karaouine mosque and university and also taught there. He died in 1780 CE and was buried next to another scholar of Fes, Muhammad Mayyara, in the Darb at-Taweel cemetery near the Karaouine mosque.

Al-Bannani is known for his book Al-Fath ar-Rabbani (The Endowment of Divine Grace). The text is a sub-commentary on the classical Mukhtasar of Khalil (the main source of rulings in Maliki jurisprudence). He also wrote the following work:

Ḥāshiyya ʿalā sharḥ az-Zaqqāq li-Mukhtaṣar Khalīl, a book of fiqh on Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq's work

Sharḥ as-Sullam, a commentary on logic of as-Sullam al-marunuq fī ʿilm al-manṭiq, written on 1262/1845–6 Manẓūma fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb, written about arithmetic