Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi

{{Short description|Moroccan Arab hadith scholar and biographer}}

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| name = Mohammed ibn Qasim al-Tamimi

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| birth_name = Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi

| birth_date = 1140/5

| birth_place = Fez, Morocco

| death_date = 1207/8

| death_place = Fez, Morocco

| religion = Islam

| occupation = Hadith Scholar, Biographer

| notable_works = Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad

| influences = Abu Madyan

| influenced = Ibn Arabi

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{{Moroccan literature}}

Al-Tamimi, in full Abu Abd Allah Mohammed ibn Qasim ibn Abd ar-Rahman ibn al-Karim al-Tamimi al-Fasi ({{Langx|ar|محمد بن قاسم التميمي}}) (born 1140/5, died 1207/8) was a Moroccan Arab hadith scholar and biographer, author of Al-Mustafad fi manaqib al-ubbad bi-madinat Fas wa ma yaliha min al-bilad.ed. M. Chérif, 2002, see also M. Chérif, Le Soufisme almohade d'après le Mustafad de Muhammad Tamimi, in Rencontre Marocco-Andalouse pour les Études Andalouses, Tétouan, 1995, pp. 37-52 Al-Tamimi hailed from the Banu Tamim tribe which settled in al-Maghreb and al-Andalus.{{Cite book|last=Chérif|first=Mohamed|url=https://archive.org/details/almostafad/page/n93/mode/2up|title=Al-Mustafad fi Manaqib al-Ibad bi Madinat Fas wa Mayaliha min al-Bilad of Ibn Qasim al-Tamimi|pages=94|language=ar}}

This book comprises 81 biographies of Moroccan saints. He wrote a fahrasa in which he recorded the names of his teachers and the works he studied under them, called An-Najm al-mushiqa (The resplendent Star). He studied under Abu Madyan. There are also many references to At-Tamimi in the work of Ibn al-Arabi.{{cite book|author=John Renard|title=Tales of God's friends: Islamic hagiography in translation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srZ5L70phwQC|access-date=11 February 2012|date=18 May 2009|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-25896-9|page=35}}