Sidi Mahrez

Sidi Mahrez ben Khalaf سيدي محرز بن خلف
Mosque and Mausoleum of Sidi Mahrez in 1899
Personal
Born	951 Aryanah
Died	1022 Tunis
Resting place	Sidi Mahrez Mausoleum
Religion	Islam
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Maliki
Creed	Ash'ari
Muslim leader
Influenced by Abu Bakr al-Abhari
Influenced Sidi Ben Arous

Sidi Mahrez ben Khalaf or Abu Mohamed Mahrez ben Khalaf ben Zayn (Arabic: سيدي محرز بن خلف; 951–1022) was a Tunisian Wali, scholar of the Maliki school of jurisprudence and a Qadi. He is considered to be the patron-saint of the city of Tunis.

Life

He was born in Ariana to a father of Arab origin who traced his lineage to Abu Bakr.^[1] He studied in Kairouan and then in Fatimid-Egypt and became a teacher of Maliki jurisprudence upon his return. At the age of 57, he left his home-town (Ariana) and went into seclusion in Carthage. In c. 1014 he settled in Tunis, in a house in Bab Souika, which would become his mausoleum and later the Sidi Mahrez Mosque.^[2]

He proposed to his teacher Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani (922 – 996 CE) to write a aqidah and fiqh education book, and his proposal was concretised under the title Risala fiqhiya.^[3]

See also

• Abu Imran al-Fasi

References

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Muslim scholars of the Maliki School

• by century (AH
• CE)

2nd/8th

• Malik ibn Anas (founder of the school; 711–795)
• Ali ibn Ziyad (d. 799)
• Ibn Wahb (743–813)
• Ibn al-Qasim

3rd/9th

• Asad ibn al-Furat (759–828)
• Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi (d. 848)
• Sahnun (d. 854/55)
• Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr al-Zuhri (767–856)
• Ibn 'Abd al-Hakam (801–871)

4th/10th

• Abu al-Arab (d. 945)
• Ibn Abi Zayd (922–996)
• Al-Baqillani (950–1013)
• Sidi Mahrez (951–1022)
• Qadi 'Abd al-Wahhab (973–1035)
• Abu Imran al-Fasi (d. 1039)

5th/11th

• Ibn 'Abd al-Barr (d. 1071)
• Al-Baji (1013–1081)
• Al-Lakhmi (1006–1085)
• Al-Lamti

6th/12th

• At-Turtushi (1059–1126)
• Al-Maziri (1061–1141)
• Ibn Barrajan (d. 1141)
• Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (1076–1148)
• Qadi Ayyad (1083–1149)
• Al-Suhayli (1114–1185)
• Averroes (1126–1198)
• Al-Tamimi (d. 1207/08)

7th/13th

• Al-Qattan (d. 1231)
• Al-Azafi (1162–1236)
• Ibn al-Hajib (d. 1249)
• Al-Qurtubi (1214–1273)
• Al-Qarafi (1228–1285)
• Ibn Ata Allah (1259–1310)
• Al-Zarwili (d. 1319)
• Ibn Rushayd (1259–1321)

8th/14th

• Ibn al-Haj (d. 1336)
• Ibn Juzayy (d. 1340)
• Khalil ibn-Ishaq (d. 1365)
• Ibn Marzuq (d. 1379)
• Ash-Shatibi (1320–1388)
• Ibn Farhun (d. 1397)
• Ibn 'Arafa (1316–1401)
• Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406)
• Al-Sakkak (d. 1415)
• Taqi al-Din Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Fasi (1373–1429)

9th/15th

• Ibn Faïd (1394–1453)
• Abd al-Rahman al-Tha'alibi (1384–1479)
• Ibn al-Azraq (1427–1491)
• Ahmad Zarruq (1442–1493)
• Ibn Hilal al-Sijilmasi (d. 1497/98)

10th/16th

• Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq (d. 1506/07)
• Al-Wansharisi (d. 1508)
• Ibn Abi Jum'ah (d. 1511)
• Al-Miknasi (1437–1513)
• Al-Hattab (1497–1547)
• Al-Akhdari (1512–1575)
• Al-Mandjur (1520–1587)
• Al-Tamgruti (d. 1594/95)

11th/17th

• Ibn Ashir (1582–1631)
• Al-Laqani (d. 1631)
• Mayyara (1591–1662)
• Al-Dila'i (d. 1678)
• Al-Qadir al-Fasi (1599–1680)
• Al-Rahman al-Fasi (1631–1685)
• Az-Zurqani (1611–1688)
• Muhammad al-Zurqani (1645–1710)

12th/18th

• Ibn al-Tayyib (1698–1756)
• Al-Bannani (1727–1780)
• Ad-Dardir (1715–1786)
• M'Hamed Al-Azhari (d. 1793/94)
• Al-Tawudi ibn Suda (1700–1795)
• Al-Qasim al-Sijilmasi (d. 1800)

13th/19th

• Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba (1747–1809)
• Ad-Desouki (d. 1815)
• Usman dan Fodio (1754–1817)
• Al-Hajj al-Fasi (1760–1817)
• Abdullahi dan Fodio (1766–1829)
• Muhammad 'Ilish (1802–1882)
• Al Alawi (d. 1888)
• Salim al-Bishri (1832–1916)
• Ahmed Harrak Srifi (d. 1925)
• Ahmed Skirej (1878–1944)

14th/20th

• Muhammad al-'Arabi al-Tabbani (1897–1970)
• Mohamed Fadhel Ben Achour (1909–1970)
• Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur (1879–1973)
• Muhammad ibn 'Alawi al-Maliki (1944–2004)

15th/21st

• Othman Battikh (1941–2022)
• Abdallah bin Bayyah (b. 1935)
• Ahmed el-Tayeb (b. 1946)
• Ahmad Karima (b. 1951)
• Hamza Yusuf (b. 1958)
• Muhammad al-Yaqoubi (b. 1963)
• Rashid Al Marikhi

Scholars of other Sunni Islamic schools of jurisprudence

• Hanafi
• Hanbali
• Shafi'i
• Zahiri