Ali bin Abdulwahed Al-Sijelmasi

Ali bin Abdulwahed Al-Sijelmasi , born in Tafilat around 1594 and died in 1647 AD in Algeria, was a Moroccan Maliki jurist, writer, physician and linguist.

His life He was Abu Al-Hasan Ali bin Abdulwahed bin Mohammad bin Siraj Al-Sijelmasi Al-Jaza’iri Al-Ansari. He was born in 1594 in Tafilat to a family belonging to the companion Saad bin Ubadah, and he grew up in Sijelmasa. He studied in Fez at the hands of Afif Al-Din Abdullah bin Ali bin Taher Al-Hasani, Muhammad bin Abi Bakr Al-Dula'i and Shihab Al-Maqri. He performed Hajj and entered Egypt in 1634 AD and learned from its scholars in that period, such as Sheikh Ahmed Al-Ghunaimi, Sheikh Ahmed bin Abdulwarith Al-Bakri, Al-Nour Al-Ajhouri and others. He returned to Morocco and settled in Fez and became a mufti in Al-Jabal Al-Akhdar. He died of plague in Algeria in 1647.

Published books (Arabic title: Menhatu Al-Qayyum on the Introduction of Ibn Ajrum: Explanation of Al-Ajrumiyah in Grammar), Dar Ibn Hazm, Beirut, 2018. (Arabic title: Sharh Al-Sijelmasi on the Completion of the Curriculum, West African Manuscripts.

Books about him (Arabic title: Kamal Bel Harka, Allama Abul-Hassan Ali bin Abdulwahed Al-Ansari Al-Sijelmasi Al-Salawi Al-Jazaeri) (d. 1070), His Life and Traditions, Dar Al-Irfan for Publishing and Distribution, 2020, Agadir, Morocco (Arabic title: Kamal BelHarka, Sharh Yawaqit AlMadina fima Entama le Alem Al-madina: From the Rules and from the Singularities of Analogies with Benefits), for the scholar Sidi Mohammad bin Abi Al-Qasim Al-Sijelmasi Al-Baja’di Al-Rebati, study and investigation, Dar Ibn Hazm, Beirut, 2015.