Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari
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Abd al-Aziz bin Muhammad al-Ghumari (Template:Langx; November 1920 in Tangier – November 6, 1997, in Tangier) was a Muslim scholar from Morocco.[1][2]
Career
He started his early education in Tangier and traveled to Cairo and was a student of Azhari scholars such as Mahmoud Imam and Abdul Muti Sharshimi.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Among his works, the is the book Mujam al-Shuyukh and Fath al Aziz Bi Asanid Sayyid Abd al-Aziz, and more.[3] He wrote several articles in the Khadra and al-Balagh newspaper in Tangier and al-Islam magazine in Cairo.[4] al-Ghumari was famous for his intellectual sparring with fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani.[5]
al-Ghumari used to teach the works of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani and the book Sahih al-Bukhari, and he also has a biography in the Moroccan scholars' encyclopaedia.[6] After a life of research on Hadith, al-Ghumari died in Tangier on Friday November 6, 1997, and was buried after a funeral in which he was mourned by many.[6]
Views
Although al-Ghumari studied in a Sunni Islamic School, he was highly skeptical about accepted Sunni positions and came up with views that were unpopular with his teachers in the al-Azhar University and he used to adopt views based on his research even if they were outside the fold of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamah.[7][8][9][10] He despised many esteemed individuals, including Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Nuaym, ibn Khuzayma, ibn Hajar al-Haytami, and especially ibn al-Jawzi, who he declared a non-person who's writings deserve to be trashed as they are worthless.[7][8][9][10] He sharply criticised and slandered those who had views that were different to his.[7][8][9][10]
Among such views are the following:
- Unlike in the Sunni-accepted position where all the companions of Muhammad are venerated, Ghumari used to mention 6 of the companions without venerating them because they fought against Ali.[11]
- The celebration of Mawlid an-Nabi is, according to al-Ghumari, an obligation even though the Islamic society customs nor the religion of Islam do not recognize celebrating Mawlid an-Nabi as an obligation.[12]
- He disagreed with the Sunni position on the supremacy of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq over all people who came after Muhammad, and held Ali to be superior to Uthman ibn Affan, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq.[7][8]
- The Ash'aris are ignoramuses, and the opposition and condemnation of the Mu'tazila, Islamic philosophers and other rational Islamic theologians by the Salaf al-Salihin included the Ash'aris as well.[7][8][10][13] al-Ghumari labelled the prominent Ashari scholar al-Subki as mentally ill, and another, ibn Hajar al-Haytami, as an ignoramus and a hypocrite.[7][8][10][13]
- Imam Zahid al-Kawthari was a fanatic and an enemy of the scholars of Islam, except for those who followed his group of Hanafis.[7][8][10][14] He derogatorily labelled the aforementioned group of Hanafis as the worshippers of Abu Hanifa.[15]
- Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, an ardent opposer of the view of the supremacy of Ali over Uthman ibn Affan, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, was a "Walialshaytan" (friend of the Devil).[7][8][10][16]
- Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani was not an Islamic Saint, rather he was not even a Muslim, and al-Ghumari went on as far to declare that he was worse than the Dajjal (Antichirst).[7][8][10][17]
References
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- ↑ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition pg. 242
- ↑ Al Ifaada, by Hassan Husayni, Tangier 2007
- ↑ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 245-6
- ↑ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 247
- ↑ Muhammad Moin, "Ahmed Al-Ghumari on Al-Albani". Al-Sunnah: 8 March 2011.
- ↑ a b Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 243
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 252
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Gibril Haddad, The Ghumari School. 6 December 2002: Living Islam. Last updated 2 June 2003.
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External links
- Arabic Online Biography of the Ibn al-Siddiq family
- Link to Abd al-Aziz Ghumari videos and lectures (Arabic)
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