Abu al-Qasim (and Abu Zayd) Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Suhayli (Arabic: أبو القاسم السُّهَيْلي) (1114 – 1185), was born in Al-Andalus, Fuengirola (formerly called Suhayl) and died in Marrakesh. He is one of the seven saints of that city. Al-Suhayli wrote books on grammar and Islamic law. He wrote a commentary on the sira of Ibn Hisham.

Works

• al-Rawḍ al-unuf fī šarḥ al-sīra al-Nabawiyya li-Ibn Hišām. wa-maʿahu al-Sīra al-Nabawiyya (7 volumes), 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

See also

• Marrakesh
• List of Islamic scholars

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