Ahmad al-Ghumari
| Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari | |
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| Born | Friday, 26 December 1902 |
| Died | 1961 |
| Nationality | Moroccan |
| Ethnicity | Ghomara |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Zahiri |
| Creed | Athari |
| Movement | Sufism |
| Sufi order | Siddiqiyya |
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Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco.
Ghumari, being a member of the prominent Ghumari family, grew up surrounded by Islamic religious scholarship. Ghumari was born on the 27th of Ramadan in 1320 according to the Islamic calendar, corresponding to December 26, 1902 Gregorian. He was the older brother of fellow clerics Abdullah al-Ghumari and Abd al-Aziz al-Ghumari. As a child, he studied in Morocco's traditional madrasa system, memorizing the entire Qur'an by heart, in addition to traditional Islamic texts such as Alfiya, Ajārūmīya and Bulugh al-Maram.
In 1921, he traveled to Egypt and enrolled in Al-Azhar University, returning to Morocco upon the death of his father. Ghumari went to Egypt a second time in 1931 when his younger brothers Abdullah and Muhammad also enrolled in the university. Due to fears regarding activity of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, his brother Abdullah was sentenced to ten years in prison on accusations of ties to the group in 1961. Ahmad al-Ghumari, upon hearing the news of his younger brother's long sentence, fell extremely ill and died eight months later.
Ghumari was a prolific writer, having authored more than one-hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with between Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani. Despite the older Ghumari's attestation to Albani's high level of knowledge and respected status in Hadith studies, the nature of the debate between them became personal and involved character attacks.
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