Mohammed bin al-Tayyib (Arabic: محمد بن الطيب) or Abu Abdallah Mohammed bin Mohammed bin Musa bin Mohammed al-Sharqi al-Sumayli ibn Tayyib al-Fasi al-Alami (1698–1756) was a famous Moroccan linguist, historian and scholar of fikh (law) and hadith.[1] He is the author of sixteen books on grammar and morphology, nine books on lexicography, many books on quranic interpretation and exegesis, hadith, sufism, fiqh and biographies of famous poets and scholars of Al-Andalus.[2] He also wrote The Companion of the Performer (al-Anis al-Mutrib). One of his many teachers was the music theorist Bu 'Isami (d. ca. 1103 AH/1690 AD).[3] Ibn al-Tayyib is the author of a well known rihla, Rihla ila al-Hijaz.[4]
Works
Quranic Interpretation or Exegesis
Hawashi al-Jalalayn
Hawashi al-Baydawi
Hawashf al- Kashshaf
Hadith
Hawashi al-Qastalani
Uyun al-Mawarid al-Salsalah min Uyun al-Asanid al-Musalsalah
Tamhid al-Dalail wa talkhis al-Awail
Biography (in the field of religious studies)
Samt al-Faraid
Risalah fi mana'al as-Salat ala al-Rasul
al-lstisha bima fi dhat al-Shifa fi Sirah al-Nabi- thumma al Khulafa
Sharh sirah Ibn Faris
Hawashi al-Shamail
Sufism
Sharh al-Hizb al-Nawawi
Fiqh
Fatawa
al-Istimsak Urwah fi al-Ahkam al-Mutaallaqah bi al-Qahwa
al-Taliqat al-Fiqhiyya
Hawashi al-Mahalli
Biographies (in the field of history)
Al-Anis Al-Mutrib Fiman laqaynahu min Udaba al-Maghrib
Al-Ufuq al-Mushriq bi Tarajum Man Laqaynahu bi al-Mashriq
Irsal al-Asanid wa Isal al-Musannafat wa al-Ajzawa al-Masanid
Iqrar Al-Ayn bi Iqrar al-Athar bad Dhihab al-Ayn
Al-Azhar al-Nadiyyah fi al-Tarikh
Grammar and Morphology
Hashiya ala al-Muradi
Hashiya ala al-Mughni
Hashiya ala al-Tasrih
Sharh al-Ashbah wa al-Nazair
Hashiya al-Makudi
Faydal-Inshirah min Rawd Tayy al-Iqtirah
Sharh Lamiyah al-Afalli Ibn Malik
Hashiyah ala Sharhal-Ajrumiyah
Iqamat al-Burhan ala anna al-Afal al-Naqisah Innama Tadullu ala al-Zaman
Hawashi al-Tahsil
Hawashi al-Tawdih
Hawashi ala Sharh al-Qawa'id
Sharh Kafiyah
Hawashi Sharh Lamiyya al-Afal
Risalah fi Halumma Jarra
Sharh al-Kafiyah
Lexicography
Al-Musfir an Khabaya al-Muzhir
Idaait al-Ramus wa Idafat al-Namus ala lda'at al-Qamus
Hashiyah ala Durarat al-Ghawwas fi Awham al-Khawwas
Mawti'at al-Fasih li Muwata'at al-Fasih
Tahrir al-Riwayah fi taqrir al-Kifayah
Daws al-Qabus fi Zawaid al-Sihah ala al-Qamus
Hawashi al-Rawd al-Masluf
Hawashi Shifa al-Ghalil
Tadhkarah
Literature and literary Studies
Isfar al-Litham an Mahya Shawahid Ibn Hisham
Hawashi ala Sharh Uqud al-Juman
Qasidah Raiyyah fi madh al-Rasul alayhi al-salam
Diwan Shi'r
Takhlis al-Takhlis min Shawahid Al-Talkhis
Anwa' al-Anwar fi Sharh Shawahid al-Kashshaf wa al-Anwar
Shari al-Qasida al-Madariya
Sharh Dawawin al-Shuara al-Sittah
Sharh Shawahid al-Ri'di
Sharh al-Muallaqat
Maalayhi al-Maul min Mabahith al-Sayyid al-Matuf
Hawashi al-Mukhtasar
al-Mafrud fi ilm al-Qawafi wa al-Urud
Hawashi Sharh Zakariya li al-Khazrajiyyah
al-Rihla al-Hijaziyya
al-Rihla al-Badia
al-Rihla al-Mashriqiyyah
References
^Nasser S. al-Samaany, Travel Literature of Moroccan Pilgrims during the 11-12th/17-18th Centuries: Thematic and Artistic Study, Phd Thesis, Department of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds, 2003, p. 65-66
^Salah al-Dihan, Critical Edition of Muhammad Al-Tayyib's Manuscript "Travel to Hijjaz": Annotated and Authenticated, Vol. 1 (Phd. thesis), ESRI, School of Languages, University of Salford, 2003, p. 83-104
^H. G. Farmer, An Old Moorish Lute Tutor, Glasgow, 1933, p. 11
^Mustapha Lahlali, Salah Al-Dihan, Wafa Abu Hatab, The Travels of Ibn al-Tayyib: The Forgotten Journey of an Eighteenth Century Traveller to the Hijaz, Wafa Abu Hatab, 2010
