Al-Bannani

Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Bannani , more commonly referred to in books of Islamic law as al-Bannani or Imam al-Banani, was an 18th-century Muslim jurist from Fes, Morocco, and a scholar in the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence.

Life

Al-Bannani was born in Fes in 1727, a city where he studied, lived for his entire life and was also buried in. He came from the Bannani family, belonging to the social category of bildiyyīn, who originally converted from Judaism to Islam in the 18th century. He studied under many of the scholars of his time including al-Tayyib al-Wazzani and the Sufi Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak. 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 text is a sub-commentary on the classical Mukhtasar of Khalil. 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