Sources

See: Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Tajakānat; Ibn Aḥmad Sālim/Ḥawādith; Ould al-Bara 405.

Biography

Alt. name: ʿAbd Allāh b. aṭ-Ṭālib ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī b. Yaḥya b. aṭ-Ṭālib Maḥḥam b. az-Zaḥḥāf Muḥammad al-Idayllbī (Ould al-Bara).

His full name is ʿAbd Allāh b. aṭ-Ṭālib ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Aʿlī b. Yaḥya b. aṭ-Ṭālib Maḥḥam b. az-Zaḥḥāf Muḥammad al-Idayllbī. He was from the Ahl Zaḥḥāf Muḥammad of the Idayllb, a group that was among those that left Walata to establish the qṣar of Nema in the early 18th century. He…