Abu Shuayb Ayub Ibn Said Erredad al- Sanhaji Assariya () (French transliteration Abou Chouaib) (died 1176–7) is the patron saint of

Azemmour Azemmour or Azammur ( ar, أزمور, azammūr; ber, ⴰⵣⵎⵎⵓⵔ, azemmur, lit=wild olive tree) is a Moroccan city, lying at the Atlantic ocean coast, on the left bank of the Oum Er-Rbia River, 75 km southwest of Casablanca. Etymol ...

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. His mausoleum in

was built on the order of

Mohammed ben Abdallah ''Sidi'' Mohammed ben Abdallah ''al-Khatib'' ( ar, سيدي محمد بن عبد الله الخطيب), known as Mohammed III ( ar, محمد الثالث), born in 1710 in Fes and died on 9 April 1790 in Meknes, was the Sultan of Morocco from 175 ...

. It stands on the remains of a

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building. Abu Shuayb lived in the time of the

Almohad The Almohad Caliphate (; ar, خِلَافَةُ ٱلْمُوَحِّدِينَ or or from ar, ٱلْمُوَحِّدُونَ, translit=al-Muwaḥḥidūn, lit=those who profess the Tawhid, unity of God) was a North African Berbers, Berber M ...

and Almoravid dynasties. He was a student of

Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar Moulay Abul Mahasin Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar () (ca 1060) was a Moroccan idriside Sufi saint during the reign of the Almoravid dynasty and the founder of the Taifa Sanhajiya, the earliest example of a Sufi order in the Maghrib. He is also th ...

and teacher of Abu Yazza, who in his turn was teacher of

Abu Madyan Abu Madyan Shuʿayb ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Andalusi ( ar, ابو مدين شعيب بن الحسين الأنصاري الأندلسي; c. 1126 – 1198 CE), commonly known as Abū Madyan, was an influential Andalusian mystic and a great Su ...

. His brotherhood is called the Shuaybiya.Vincent J. Cornell, ''Realm of the saint: power and authority in Moroccan Sufism'', p. 57 In Azemmour is also the mausoleum of Laila Aisha Bahria, Abu Shuayb's pupil, who travelled from

Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

to visit him. She died in Azemmour.

References

1176 deaths 12th-century Berber people Moroccan Sufis People from the Almohad Caliphate Sanhaja Year of birth unknown {{Morocco-bio-stub