Sources

See: Muʿjam al-ʿAṣṣāba wa-Tagānt 75; Ould al-Bara 367; Ibn Aḥmad Sālim/Ḥawādith; MLG 2949.

Biography

Alt. name: ʿAbd ar-Raḥman b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Maḥmūd b. al-Wāfī b. Alf al-Mukhtār b. aṭ-Ṭālib ʿAlī b. H-m-d-y-r-k (MLG).

Teachers: His father and Sīdī Aḥmad Bāba b. Muḥammad b. aṭ-Ṭālib ʿIsa.

His full name was ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān b. Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. al-Maḥmūd ʿAbdzahw (عبدز). According to Ibn Ḥāmidun, he was a chief among the Idaylaba, a fraction of the Gawālīl (الگواليل) clan in the Tajakānat tribe. He was from …