Al-Suhayli


Al-Suhayli was a Moroccan Islamic scholar and theologian who wrote the book, a commentary on the of Ibn Hisham. Al-Suhayli is one of the Seven [Saints of Marrakesh].

Biography and works

Al-Suhayli was born in 1114 in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola. He died in 1185 in Marrakesh.
  • al-Rawḍ al-unuf fī šarḥ al-sīra al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišām. wa-maʿahu al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya, 1967
  • al-Taʿrīf wa-al-iʿlām li-mā ubhima min al-Qurʾān min al-asmāʾ wa-al-aʿlām, Bayrut, 1987
  • Translation in German: Die Kommentare des Suhailī und des Abū Ḍarr zu den Uḥud-Gedichten in der Sīra des Ibn Hišam, Schaade, Arthur 1908