known as al-Sammān, b. 1130/1718, d. 1189/1775.
Sources
Silk al-durar, iv, 60-61; Hadiyya, ii, 341; Īḍāḥ, ii, 664; GAL S II, 391 and 535 (Brockelmann confuses Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Karīm with the Damascan scholar, Muḥammad Saʿīd b. al-Sammān); Kaḥḥāla, x, 188; Aʿlām, vi, 216; Le Châtelier (1887), 48-77; Martin (1972), 320; Kamāl Bābikr, thesis (1976); de Jong (1978), 28, 73 and 177; Drewes (1992), 73-87.
Biography
A scholar and Sufi, al-Sammān was initiated in the Ḥijāz by Muṣṭafā b. Kamāl al-Dīn al-Bakrī and in Egypt by Muḥam…