Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri ( Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Moroccan saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan. [1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate. [2]
Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi ( Safi). His family were a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid 11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe. [3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir. [4] He left Asfi in c. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194, [5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi. [6]
Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri ( Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Moroccan saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan. [1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate. [2]
Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi ( Safi). His family were a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid 11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe. [3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir. [4] He left Asfi in c. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194, [5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi. [6]