Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami

ʻAbd al-Salām ibn Mashīsh al-ʻAlamī (Arabic: عبد السلام بن مشيش العلمي‎) was a Moroccan Sufi saint who lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.

Mulay

Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish al-Alami
عبد السلام إبن مشيش العلمي
Personal
Born
Banu Arrus, neighbourhood of Jabal al-ʻAlam
Died1227
Jabal Alam, South of Tétouan.
Resting placeShrine of Moulay Abdeslam, south of Tétouan.
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceMaliki
Senior posting
Disciple ofAbu Madyan

Biography

Virtually nothing is known about him except that he was assassinated in 1227/1228 by the anti-Almohad rebel Ibn Abi Tawajin.[1]

His genealogy was traced through several ancestors—some of them with typically Berber names—all the way to the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. It is said that he was born to the Banu Arus tribe in the neighbourhood of the Jabal al-'Alam, and that at the age of 16 he travelled to the east to study. On his return, in bijaya (Béjaïa), he followed the instructions of the Andalusian mystic Abu Madyan. He come back to stay in his native country, where he withdrew to the mountain to live an edifying life as an ascetic. He was the spiritual guide of Abu-l-Hassan ash-Shadhili, his only disciple.[1]

Works

He is the author of a collection of reflections about religious and political life in his time and of a famous eulogy of the prophet Mohammed (taṣliyah) on which a commentary was written by Ahmad ibn Ajiba. He also wrote a metaphysical paraphrase of a widely known prayer, called al-Salat al-Mashishiyah, in which the believer calls on God to bless the Prophet to thank him for having received Islam through him. In it, Ibn Mashish sees in the prophet Muhammad as a creature of the one Spirit from which all revelation comes and which is the eternal mediator between the ungraspable God and the world. He also gave the Islamic world a prayer of salawat called Salawat al-Nariyah. It is still recited today by Muslims around the globe.

References
  1. Le Tourneau, R. (1986) [1960]. "ʿAbd al-Salām b. Mas̲h̲īs̲h̲". In Bearman, P.; Bianquis, Th.; Bosworth, C.E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W.P. (eds.). Encyclopaedia of Islam. I (2nd ed.). Leiden, Netherlands: Brill Publishers. p. 91. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_0127. ISBN 9004081143.
  • Muhammad Bennani, Mulay Abd Es Selam El Machich, ed. by África Española – Madrid, 1913 (In Spanish)
  • Titus Burckhardt, "The Prayer of Ibn Mashish", Studies in Comparative Religion, Winter-Spring, 1978, Pates Manor, Bedfont, Middlesex
  • Titus Burckhardt, "The Prayer of Ibn Mashish (As-Salat al-Mashishiyah)", Translation and commentary, Islamic Quarterly, London, 1978, vol. 20-21-22, no3, pp. 68–75
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