d. 1211/1796–7
Sources
See: Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Tajakānat; Ibn Ḥāmidun/Mawsūʿa: Thaqāfa 224; Ibn Aḥmad Sālim/Ḥawādith; MLG 263 cites his father.
Biography
His full name is al-Ḥaj ash-Shaykh b. Aḥmad b. aṭ-Ṭālib Muḥammad b. Yaḥya ash-Shaykh b. al-Ḥabīb b. Abābak b. aṭ-Ṭālib Yaḥya b. Zaḥḥāf Muḥammad al-Idayllbī. Ibn Ḥāmidun counted him among the most learned of the Idayllbī in Walata, and ʿAbd Allāh b. aṭ-Ṭālib ʿUthmān al-Idayllbī praised him as among the most venerated of Mecca; he pe…