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Sayyid Abdelaziz Ben Sediq

Sayyid Abdelaziz Ben Sediq (عبد العزيز بن الصديق) (November 1920 in Tangier – November 6, 1997 in Tangier) was a moderate Muslim scholar from Morocco. He is from the Idrissite branch of Moroccan Sayyids that trace themselves back to Idris I, who led a Shiite revolt against the Abbasid dynasty.^[1]^[2]

[edit] Ben Sediq's father

Ben Sediq's father Sayyid Muhammad (b.1887 d. November 6, 1935 in Tangier) was among prominent scholars such as his contemporary Sayyid al-Harrak. He used to teach the works of Ibn Abi Zayd al Qayrawani and the book of Muhammad al-Bukhari. Among the scholars who wrote about him are his oldest son Ahmad Ben Sediq in a book called Subhat al Aqeek (سبحة العقيق) and the scholar Sheikh Muhammad al Ayachi in a book called Nubthat al Tahqeek (نبذة التحقيق). He also has a biography in the prominent Moroccan scholars encyclopaedia.^[3]

[edit] His career

It was not a coincidence that Abdelaziz Ben Sediq's mother as well comes from family of known scholars. Her grandfather indeed was Imam Ahmad ibn Ajiba. He started his early education in Tangier and traveled to Cairo and was a student of Azhar scholars such as Mahmoud Imam and Abdul Muuti Sharshimi. Among his works, the book Mujam al Shuyukh (معجم الشيوخ) and Fath al Aziz Bi Asaanid Sayyid Abdelaziz (فتح العزيز باسانيد لسيد عبد العزيز). He wrote several articles in the Khadra (الخضراء) and al-Balagh newspaper in Tangier and al-Islam magazine in Cairo.^[4]

[edit] Prominent views

Although Abdelaziz Ben Sediq studied in a Sunni Islamic university, he registered his own critical thinking and came up with views that were unpopular with his teachers in the Azhar university. He used to adopt views based on research even if they were outside the sect or the popular religious culture. Among such views are the following:

Unlike Sunni religious culture where all the companions of prophet Muhammad are venerated, Ben Sediq used to mention 6 of the companions without venerating them because they fought against Imam Ali ^[5]

Ben Sediq Abdelaziz was among the scholars that rejected extreemist Wahabi philosophy and the Jihadi school of thought by considering them most harming to the Islamic culture and a cause of regression of the Muslim nations.^[6]

Unlike Wahabi Muslim scholars that prohibit the celebration of Prophet Muhammad's birthday, he declared such celebration to be an obligation and a duty regardless if the tradition of celebrating birth days originate from the west or elsewhere.^[7]

Sayyid Abdelaziz agreed with Shia Islamic scholars on the supremacy of Imam Ali over all that came after Prophet Muhammad.^[8]

In His book al-Ifada or "The interest in the ways on which the Hadith - that looking at Ali is a worship- is based" (الافادة بطرق حديث النظر الى علي عبادة), he openly criticized the narrations of Hadith that were registered under the Umayad and the Abbasid rule, and accused some narrators to be manipulated by the political ruling institution of that time. That was repeated over so many pages of the book.

[edit] His death

After a long life of research excellence, Sayyid Abdelaziz Ben Sediq died in Tangier on Friday November 6, 1997. He was buried after a funeral in which the number of mourners set a record in Tangier's biggest ever gatherings.^[3]

[edit] Books

Moroccan literature

List of writers
Literature of Morocco
Moroccan Arabic
Berber

Moroccan authors

Novelists
Playwrights - Poets
Essayists - Historians
Travel writers - Sufi writers
Moorish writers

Forms

Novel - Poetry - Plays

Criticism & Awards

Literary theory - Critics
Literary Prizes

[edit] References

^ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition pg. 242
^ Al Ifaada, by Hassan Husayni, Tangier 2007
^ ^a ^b Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 243
^ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 247
^ The 30th Hadith, Ben Sediq Abdelaziz, International Patent^{[dubious – discuss]} number -4-0-9872-9981 Al Bughaz Edition, P 44. Tangier ar.
^ al Arbaeen al Aziziya, Preface, 1992 Tangier ar.
^ Live Lecture1997
^ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 252
^ Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 245-6

[edit] See also

[0] Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition pg. 242

[1] Al Ifaada, by Hassan Husayni, Tangier 2007

[ReferenceA-2] Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 243

[3] Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 247

[4] The 30th Hadith, Ben Sediq Abdelaziz, International Patent^{[dubious – discuss]} number -4-0-9872-9981 Al Bughaz Edition, P 44. Tangier ar.

[5] Arbaeen al Aziziya, Preface, 1992 Tangier ar.

[6] Live Lecture1997

[7] Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 252

[8] Uloom al Hadith Review, 2nd year, 3rd edition P: 245-6

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