Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari

He started his early education in Tangier and traveled to Cairo and was a student of Azhari scholars such as Mahmoud Imam and Abdul Muti Sharshimi.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} Among his works, the is the book Mujam al-Shuyukh and Fath al Aziz Bi Asanid Sayyid Abd al-Aziz, and more.Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 245-6 He wrote several articles in the Khadra and al-Balagh newspaper in Tangier and al-Islam magazine in Cairo.Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 247 al-Ghumari was famous for his intellectual sparring with fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani.Muhammad Moin, [http://alsonnah.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/ahmed-al-ghumari-on-al-albani/ "Ahmed Al-Ghumari on Al-Albani"]. Al-Sunnah: 8 March 2011.

al-Ghumari used to teach the works of Ibn Abi Zayd al-Qayrawani and the book Sahih al-Bukhari, and he also has a biography in the Moroccan scholars' encyclopaedia.Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 243 After a life of research on Hadith, al-Ghumari died in Tangier on Friday November 6, 1997, and was buried after a funeral in which he was mourned by many.

Although al-Ghumari studied in a Sunni Islamic School, he was highly skeptical about accepted Sunni positions and came up with views that were unpopular with his teachers in the al-Azhar University and he used to adopt views based on his research even if they were outside the fold of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jamah. He despised many esteemed individuals, including Khatib al-Baghdadi, Abu Nuaym, ibn Khuzayma, ibn Hajar al-Haytami, and especially ibn al-Jawzi, who he declared a non-person who's writings deserve to be trashed as they are worthless. He sharply criticised and slandered those who had views that were different to his.{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}}{{Cite journal |last=أقريوار |first=الأمين |date=2014-07-31 |title=جهود الحافظ أحمد بن الصديق الغماري في الفقه الإسلامي |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.12816/0008650 |journal=مجلة المدونة |issue=1 |pages= 18–47|doi=10.12816/0008650 |issn=2349-1884|url-access=subscription }}

Among such views are the following:

• Unlike in the Sunni-accepted position where all the companions of Muhammad are venerated, Ghumari used to mention 6 of the companions without venerating them because they fought against Ali.The 30th Hadith, Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari, International Patent{{Dubious|date=January 2009}} number -4-0-9872-9981 Al Bughaz Edition, P 44. Tangier ar.
• The celebration of Mawlid an-Nabi is, according to al-Ghumari, an obligation even though the Islamic society customs nor the religion of Islam do not recognize celebrating Mawlid an-Nabi as an obligation.{{YouTube|0XNjHyidb6Y|Live lecture 1997}}
• He disagreed with the Sunni position on the supremacy of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq over all people who came after Muhammad, and held Ali to be superior to Uthman ibn Affan, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq.Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 252Gibril Haddad, [https://www.livingislam.org/ir/f/The-Ghumari-School.html The Ghumari School]. 6 December 2002: Living Islam. Last updated 2 June 2003.
• The Ash'aris are ignoramuses, and the opposition and condemnation of the Mu'tazila, Islamic philosophers and other rational Islamic theologians by the Salaf al-Salihin included the Ash'aris as well.{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |page=11, 13, & 81 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}} al-Ghumari labelled the prominent Ashari scholar al-Subki as mentally ill, and another, ibn Hajar al-Haytami, as an ignoramus and a hypocrite.
• Imam Zahid al-Kawthari was a fanatic and an enemy of the scholars of Islam, except for those who followed his group of Hanafis.{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |page=40 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}} He derogatorily labelled the aforementioned group of Hanafis as the worshippers of Abu Hanifa.{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |page=72 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}}
• Shah Waliullah Dehlavi, an ardent opposer of the view of the supremacy of Ali over Uthman ibn Affan, Umar ibn al-Khattab, and Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, was a "Walialshaytan" (friend of the Devil).{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |page=47 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}}
• Shaykh Ahmad al-Tijani was not an Islamic Saint, rather he was not even a Muslim, and al-Ghumari went on as far to declare that he was worse than the Dajjal (Antichirst).{{Cite book |last=al-Ghumari |first=Abd al-Aziz |title=الجواب المفيد للسائل المستفيد - أحمد بن الصديق الغماري - منسق |date=2010-08-16 |page=65 |language=Arabic |trans-title=The Useful Answer for the Beneficiary Questioner}}

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• [http://www.alashraf-leb.org/docs/Ashraf_Pics/Morocco.htm Arabic Online Biography of the Ibn al-Siddiq family]
• [http://www.aslein.net/showthread.php?t=7053 Link to Abd al-Aziz Ghumari videos and lectures] (Arabic)
• {{YouTube|0XNjHyidb6Y|Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari}}

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