Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh | |
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Ɗan Marina | |
| Personal life | |
| Born | |
| Resting place | Dan Marina cemetery, Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria |
| Flourished | 1640–1659 |
| Region | Hausaland |
| Pen name | Muhammad b. al-Sabbagh b. Muhammad b. al-Hajj b. Baraka b. Ibrahim al-Kashnawi al-Arabi |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Maliki school |
| Muslim leader | |
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Muhammad ibn al-Sabbagh (fl. 1640), also known as Dan Marina, was a 17th-century Islamic scholar from Katsina. He is regarded as one of the three patron saints of Katsina, alongside Dan Masanih, and Dan Tukum. Even today, Muslims, primarily from Katsina, continue to pilgrimage to his tomb for ziyara.[1] In the1820s, the Sokoto scholar Abd al-Qadir dan Tafa visited his tomb for ziyara while in his 1812 work Infaq al-maysur, Muhammad Bello, first Sultan of the Sokoto described him as al-ustadh ('the teacher'), al-mukashaf ('the one illuminated') and dihliz al-ilm ('the hall-way of learning'). His most well known work is his commentary of the book Ishriniyyat written by Abdul Rahman bn Yakhftan al-Fazazi.
- ^ Schacht, Joseph (1957). "Islam in Northern Nigeria". Studia Islamica (8): 123–146. doi:10.2307/1595250. ISSN 0585-5292.