d. 1227/1811
Sources
See: Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Tajakānat; Muʿjam al-ʿAṣṣāba wa-Tagānt 66; Ould al-Bara; MLG 315; Ibn Ḥāmidun and Heymowski 143.
Biography
Teachers: His father ash-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Amīn and after his death his brother ash-Shaykh Aḥmad b. ash-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Amīn, Sīdī ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Ḥāj Ibrāhīm al-ʿAlawī.
His full name is aṭ-Ṭālib ʿAbd Allāh b. ash-Shaykh Muḥammad al-Amīn b. Fāl b. Sīdī al-Wāfī, and he was from the Tajakānat tribe and the Awlād Ibrāhīm family and maḥaẓra. As a jurist and grammarian, he was most …