Abū al-Muṭarrif, Aḥmad b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmayra al-Makhzūmī (582–658/1186–1260), was a man of letters, a scribe, a jurist and a poet during the era of the Almohads (al-Muwaḥḥidūn) in al-Andalus and the Maghrib.

It has been held that Abū al-Muṭarrif's ancestral name is ʿUmayra, a seemingly incorrect assumption (see Ibn Sharīfa, 33). His lineage goes back to the Banū Makhzūm, a clan of the Quraysh tribe, although some of his contemporaries traced his lineage to a Jewish family (Ibn ʿAbd al-Malik, 1(1)/150–151; Ibn al-Khaṭīb, al-Iḥāṭa, 1/179); accord…