Al-Ajrumiyyah : A Concise Treatise on Arabic Grammar

Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Dawud known as IBN AJRUM, was an erudite, upright, knower of Allah He was born in 1273 during a time when the Sanhaja Moors, the Fullani Torodbe, the Spanish Muslims and the Arabs enjoyed a refined civilization in the Iberian Peninsula. His father was called Ajrum, which means in the language of the Berbers "the poor sufi". Thus, the name of the author and the name given to the text reflected the overt connection with the way of the people of tasawwuf (spiritual purification). In the Hashiyya of Shaykh Isma'il al-Haamidi it says, "Verily he (Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ajrum) composed this treatise while facing the Noble House of Allah in Makka. It is said also that when he had completed it, he went and threw it into the Red Sea and said, 'If this work was purely for the sake of Allah ta'ala, it will not even become damp.' And the matters was as he said." Shaykh Ibn Ajrum died in 1323 at the age of 50.Sanhaja, Muhammad is the author of 'Al-Ajrumiyyah : A Concise Treatise on Arabic Grammar', published 2006 under ISBN 9780977660704 and ISBN 0977660702.