Sīdī Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Bannānī (Arabic: محمد بن الحسن البناني;[a] 1727 – 1780 CE/1133 AH – 1194 AH) more commonly referred to in books of Islamic law as al-Bannānī or Imam al-Bannānī, was an 18th-century Muslim jurist from Fes, Morocco, and a scholar in the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence (fiqh).
Life
Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Bannani was born in Fes in 1727, a city where he studied, lived for his entire life and was also buried in.[citation needed] He came from the Bannani family, belonging to the social category of bildiyyīn ("people of the town"), who originally converted from Judaism to Islam in the 18th century.[1][2] He studied under many of the scholars of his time including al-Tayyib al-Wazzani and the SufiAhmad ibn al-Mubarak (author of Kitab al-Ibriz). After a period of study, he became the imam and khatib of the Karaouine mosque and university and also taught there. He died in 1780 CE and was buried next to another scholar of Fes, Muhammad Mayyara, in the Darb at-Taweel cemetery near the Karaouine mosque.[citation needed]
Al-Bannani is known for his book Al-Fath ar-Rabbani (The Endowment of Divine Grace). The text is a sub-commentary on the classical Mukhtasar of Khalil (the main source of rulings in Maliki jurisprudence).[3] He also wrote the following work:[4]
Ḥāshiyya ʿalā sharḥ az-Zaqqāq li-Mukhtaṣar Khalīl, a book of fiqh on Ali ibn Qasim al-Zaqqaq's work
Sharḥ as-Sullam, a commentary on logic of as-Sullam al-marunuq fī ʿilm al-manṭiq, written on 1262/1845–6
Manẓūma fī ʿilm al-ḥisāb, written about arithmetic
