Abi Mohammed Salih or Abou Mohammed Saleh is one saint Moslem Moroccan. He was born in 1153 and died in 1234 with Safi where he was buried.

Biography

It is about large a Soufi of the beginning of the 12th century whose action overflowed of the borders of the Morocco. At the same time holy and Faquih, it owes its reputation especially with its teaching hagiographic and the miracles of which it made proof in several fields. However it did not profit on behalf of the biographers from a sufficient note. Only its grandson Abou AlAbbas Ahmad, devoted a Monographie to him, which, in spite of its title, gives on its life only fragmentary and incomplete information. Its complete name is Abou Mohammad Salih, ibn Yansaran, ibn Gafiyan Adoukkali Almaghri . It descends from a noble Arab family of Omar ibn Abdelaziz (Caliph omeyyade, regarded as the successor of the first 4 caliphs: Abou Bakr, Omar, Othman and Ali).

It is in Safi that it is devoted to the study, the teaching and the initiation of the volunteers. It was its center of action and radiation, the seat of its spiritual power and moral. Several delegations of the western world and Eastern came to meet there in order to profit from its councils and its lessons. It had there a Ribat which was the independent factor of its famous during several centuries. Before reaching at this stage of maturity, it had certainly to be informed near many Masters. Most famous as regards Sufism are Abou Madyan Alghout (buried has Eleubad close to Tlemcen, known under Sidi Boumedienne), to which it stuck for a long time, Abou Abdallah Amghar (Moulay Abdallah, close to Eljadida), Abi Choayb Assariya (buried Azemmour has) and Abou Mohammed Abderrazaqq Al Gazuli.

It formed in its turn a very great number of disciples and initiates especially. Among them, it is advisable to quote two wire Abdelaziz and Ahmad, his small sons Ibrahim Ibn Mohammed and Abou Alabbas Ahmad. All carried the torch of the Cheykh and continued after its death its mission as well with the Morocco as in the East.

Of what does consist this mission? The sheik was before a whole right man, integrates, honest, magnet to make the good and to spread the lesson of God and the Sunna. It was well prepared to become an excellent sheik, a venerated saint. Early, it was initiated with the Moslem mystic and was not long in appearing in this field of real aptitudes and an exemplary behavior worthy of the largest scientists of the Islam. It was thus devoted to the teaching of this religious discipline to which it must just like we will see it. For that, it had founded a little everywhere in Occident as in the East of the Zawiyas and the Ribat S, centers intended for the Dikr and teaching. It took care personally and via its auxiliaries of the achievement of precise and given tasks. He had noticed that the Hajj was neglected with the Morocco, because of the adventures to which the pilgrims in the course of road exposed themselves. By their attitude, some Foukahas, taking account of such difficulties, had tolerated the failure of this rite, which caused the reaction of Abou Mahammed Salih, which undertook to fight against this tendency.

At the level of the Morocco as in the other countries of Islam, an action of propaganda and justification was organized and completed. Starting from the ribat of Safi, the orders of the Sheik were transmitted to his representatives in the various centers which they directed. All the useful provisions to facilitate Hajj were taken. The results discounted were carried out. The Morrocans, in great number, took again confidence and ended up being convinced of the need for going at all costs to the pilgrimage constituting multiple convoys thus. Many problems were solved at the same time: distribution of vivres, mountings and drugs. The goal reached, the sheik decided, starting from these circumstances, to annually charge a delegation with achieving this pertaining to worship duty.

It is with him that returns the merit to have creates in Morocco Rakb Al Hajj or official procession which one sees forming today every year by the sovereigns themselves. Thus, the action of the sheik, was crowned great successes. Its theoretical and practical teaching gave its fruits. Its ribat of Safi where it was buried remained effective in the propagation of its ideas and did not cease playing its part until the beginning of the 16th century, date to which it fell in ruins under the blows from the Portuguese which invaded the city. The sheik left only one work. It is far from known. It reflects exactly its spiritual ideas and its tendencies. It is about the Bidayat Al Mourid where he treats Tassawuf and certain famous men such as for example his Master Abou Madyane. One can arrange this work among biographical works which were made up as regards hagiography by the Morrocans at the beginning of the 13th century. This detail seems to have escaped to the scientist Levi-Of Provence, which devoted an essential part of its thesis to the biographers of this century.

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