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Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij: by Shaykh Fakhruddīn Al-Owaisī

Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij was a prominent Moroccan Sufi scholar and teacher of the Maliki and Tijani Sufi orders. He authored over 160 works on Islamic sciences and had over 600 scholarly certificates. He was influential in spreading the Tijani tariqa, including to the Sultan of Morocco. Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij dedicated himself totally to the Tijani tariqa and its founder, Ahmad al-Tijani. He passed away in 1944 and was buried in the mausoleum of Qadi 'Iyad, as he was one of the great judges of Morocco.

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Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij: by Shaykh Fakhruddīn Al-Owaisī

Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij was a prominent Moroccan Sufi scholar and teacher of the Maliki and Tijani Sufi orders. He authored over 160 works on Islamic sciences and had over 600 scholarly certificates. He was influential in spreading the Tijani tariqa, including to the Sultan of Morocco. Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij dedicated himself totally to the Tijani tariqa and its founder, Ahmad al-Tijani. He passed away in 1944 and was buried in the mausoleum of Qadi 'Iyad, as he was one of the great judges of Morocco.

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Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij
By Shaykh Fakhruddīn al-Owaisī 1
Released by www.marifah.info 1428H

1 Shaykh Fakhruddīn Owaisī al-Madanī is from the tribe of Sayyidunā Owais al-Qarnī, and a
muqaddam of the Tijāniyya in South Africa. He was born in the USA but grew up and studied in
Medina al-Munawwara for 18 years. He has an MA in Islamic Studies from the University of Cape
Town and is the Imām of the Hout Bay Mosque at the last Tip of Africa. He is also the Head of the
Sunni `Ulemā Council of Cape Town. Shaykh Fakhruddīn studied with Sayyid Muhammad `Alawī al-
Malikī of Mecca and has ijāzah in Hadīth from Sayyid Muhammad al-Yaqūbī. He took the Tarīqa
from the great Sufī master Shaykh Hassan Cisse of Senegal, who is the grandson and khalīfa of
Shaykh al-Islām and Ghawth al-Anām al-Hāj Ibrahīm Niyāss  the possessor of the fayda (Spiritual
Flood) predicted by Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijānī . He may be contacted on fdowaisi@gmail.com.
He is Sayyidinā al-Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij al-Khazrajī al-Ansārī (nasaban) al-Fāsī (mawtinan) al-
Mālikī (madhhaban) al-Tījānī (tarīqatan).

Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij was the Qādī of many Moroccan cities, teacher of the Sultān and his
representative to the Hijāz, as well as a major Shaykh of the Tījāniyya Tarīqa.

Among those who took the Tijānī Tarīqa from him was Mawlay ‘Abdul Hāfīz the Sultān of
Morocco, who was exiled to France, and who had previously been an enemy of the
Tijaniyya. 2

Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij authored about 160 works on all aspects of Islamic Knowledge 3,
among which are:

1) A 20,000 line, Nazm Version of al-Suyūtī’s Khasā’is al-Kubrā.


2) A 500 line, Nazm version of Qadī Iyād’s Shifa.
3) A takhmīs of the Burdah.
4) The renowned Kashf al-Hijāb amman Talaqa mā`a al-Shaykh al-Tijānī min al-Ashāb, a giant
encyclopedia of the Disciples and Khalīfa’s of the Seal of the Saints al-Qutb al-Maktūm
Sayyidinā Shaykh Ahmad al-Tījanī al-Hasanī al-Fāsī , to whose Tarīqa Sīdī Sukayrij was
totally dedicated.

Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij possessed more than 600 ijāza’s in various Islamic Sciences 4, which
he transcribed in his seminal work Qadam al-Rusūkh fīma li-Mu’allifihī min al-Shuyūkh. In the
same book, Sīdī Sukayrij wrote: “The first one to whom I gave authorization in all these chains of
transmission was the Khalīfa al-Hājj Ibrāhīm Niyāss…”. He also said to him, “You are the ‘Alim of
the Sūdān (Land of the Blacks, i.e. Africa)”.

Although Sahib al-Faydah al-Tījanīyya Shaykh al-Islām al-Hājj Ibrahīm Niyāss 5 had numerous
Ijāzahs in the Tarīqah Tījanīyyah, he would always use Sīdī Sukayrijs’ ijāzah in giving the
Tarīqa as it was the closest one to Sayyidinā al-Qutb al-Maktūm Sīdī Ahmad al-Tījānī.
Before he passed away, Sīdī Ahmad had a dream in which he was in the company of Qādī
`Iyād 6. Then it so happened that he passed away while he was in Marrakech in 1944, and
was indeed buried in the Mausoleum of Qadi `Iyād .

2 His ijāzah fīl tarīq to him is found on the website: http://www.cheikh-skiredj.com/pere-cheikh-


skiredj.php

3 Most of his works are available for download at: http://www.cheikh-skiredj.com/pere-cheikh-


skiredj.php

4 An example of one of Shaykh Sukayrij’s Asānid is found on this link: www.cheikh-skiredj.com

5 Shaykh Ibrahīm Niyāss had 50 million Tījānī murīds when he passed way in 1975!
It was the appropriate place for him to be buried as, like the famous Qādī `Iyād, Shaykh
Ahmad Sukayrij was also one of the great Qudāt of the Maghreb and a true lover of the
Messenger of Allah . May Allah  sanctify his secret. Amīn.

6
Author of the celebrated al-Shifā’

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