Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (26 December 1902 – 1961) was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco.Mustafa Shah, The Hạdīth: Scholarship, perspectives, and criticism, Routledge, 2010, p. 210
Career Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani.Muhammad Moin, "Ahmed Al-Ghumari on Al-Albani". Al-Sunnah: 8 March 2011.
Like the rest of his family, Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order.Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari, Ma Yajuz wa ma la Yajuz fi al-Hayat al-Zawjiyyah, pg. 9. Amman: Dar al-Fath, 2009. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali claimed that al-Ghumari had chosen to live a very simple life and eschewed material excess.Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari, pg. 58. Amman: Dar al-Bayariq, 2001. Jordanian National Library #2001/6/1146
Views Although a practitioner of Sufism, Ghumari criticized some Sufis, especially the rival Naqshbandi order.Gibril Haddad, The Ghumari School. 6 December 2002: Living Islam. Last updated 2 June 2003. Like Ibn Hazm, Ghumari viewed scholarly differences of opinion as wrong and he often used harsh language when responding to intellectual opponents. Having originally followed the Maliki school of thought like most of Muslim scholarship in Morocco, al-Ghumari later switched to the Shafi'i school for a period and finally opted for absolute independent reasoning.Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh, pgs. 61-62. Unlike most of Moroccan scholarship, al-Ghumari opposed the Ash'ari school of theology.Hassan Kettani, Fiqh al-Hafizh, pg. 62. Muhammad Abu Khubza, among other Moroccan scholars, also claim that al-Ghumari temporarily adhered to the Zaidiyyah school of Shia Islam.
Works Tabyin al-balah mimman ankara wujud hadith Wa-man lagha fa-la jumu'ah lahu. Dar al-Basa`ir, 1982.Tabyin al-balah at Amazon.co.uk
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External links Avoid Imitating the Kuffar by Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari Arabic Online Biography of the Ibn al-Siddiq family