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Abu Muhammad Abdallah ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani 🇹🇳

ابن أبي زيد القيرواني (Known as "The Little Malik (Malik al-Saghir)")
Supreme Maliki Jurisconsult, Author of the Risala of Kairouan
Born 922 AD 🇹🇳 Kairouan, Tunisia
Passed Away 996 AD Kairouan, Tunisia
Lifespan 74 years old
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"The Little Malik of Kairouan whose Risala illuminated the law of the Maghreb for a thousand years."

Archival Overview

Revered as 'The Little Malik', supreme Maliki authority of Kairouan whose immortal manual Al-Risala remains the foundational legal textbook for hundreds of millions of Maliki Muslims across North and West Africa.

Biographical Record

Abu Muhammad Abdallah Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani was the undisputed intellectual giant of 10th-century Ifriqiya. Residing in Kairouan, he championed Sunni Maliki orthodoxy during the intense theological tensions of the Fatimid era.

At age seventeen, he composed Al-Risala (The Epistle), a concise, elegant masterpiece of Maliki legal doctrine, ritual practice, and creed that became the standard manual of Islamic education across Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and West Africa. His scholarly authority earned him the immortal title 'Shaykh al-Malikiyya' (Master of the Malikis).

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Mausoleum of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani
Kairouan, Tunisia
GPS: 35.6825, 10.0965
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