His Companions
The special companions of Abul Abbas Mawlana Ahmed ibn Mohammed Tijani were graced to inherit Shaykh Tijani's spiritual methodology of initiation (tarbiya) and promotion (tarqiya). No hagiographical collection documents the names of these companions than Sidi Ahmed Skirej's (d. 1944) chronicle Kashf al-Hijab 'amman talaaqa bi-Shaykh Tijani mina-l As'hab (Rising the Veil on the Companions of Shaykh Tijani). In his narrative al-faqih Skirej set forth a remarkable hagiography of nearly 350 successors (khalifas), representatives (muqaddams) and disciples initiated at the hand of Shaykh Tijani. Among the Moroccan figures reported in the book who made a contribution to the expansion of the Tijaniya are the names of:
- Sidi Ali Harazem b. al-Arbi Berrada al-Fasi (d. 1797) –author of Kitab Jawahir al-ma'ani wa-bulugh al-amani fi fayd Sidi Abil al-Abbas at-Tijani (Gems of Indications and Attainment of Aspirations in the Overflowings of Sidi Abil Abbas Tijani)
- Sidi Mohammed al-Ghali Boutaleb (d. 1829)
- Sidi Tayyeb Sefyani Hassani (d. 1844) –author of Al-Ifada al-Ahmediya li-murid sa’ada al-abadiya (The Ahmedi Notification for the Hunter of Eternal Rapture)
- Sidi Mohammed b. Abi Nasr Alawi (d. 1858)
- Sidi al-Haj Abdelwahhab b. al-Ahmar Tawudi (d. 1854)
- Sidi Mohammed b. Ali Sanusi (d. 1859)
- Sidi Abd al-Aziz Dabbagh (on whom Kitab al-Ibriz was exposed)
- Sidi al-Ghazi Lamteri
- Sidi Ahmed b. Idriss (d. 1837)
- Sidi Mousa b. Maazouz (d. 11842)
- Sidi Mohammed b. Hamza al-Madani (d. 1821)
- Sidi Ahmed b. Abdessalam Filali Wadghiri (d. 1870)
- Sidi Mohammed Belqasim Basri Walhaji (d. 1878)
- Sidi Abu Yaaza b. Ali Berrada (d. after 1891)
- Sidi al-Haj Ali Amlas al-Fasi (d. after 1854)
- Sidi Tuhami b. Rahmoun (d. 1848)
- Sidi Allal Ben Kiran (d. 1863)
- Sidi Abdelwahhab b. Mohammed Tazi (d. 1864)
- Sidi al-Haj Tayyeb Laqbab (d. 1895)
- Sidi al-Haj Taleb Labbar (d. 1850)
- Sidi Mohammed Lahbabi (d. 1837)
- Sidi Abdellqadir Idrissi
- Sidi Allal Benmousa
- Sidi Dawdi Tilimsani (d. 1866)
- Sidi Tuhami Lahlou (d. 1862)
- Sidi Abdellqadir Benshaqrun (d. 1804)
- Sidi Abul Abbas Ahmed al-Mazuni al-Fasi
- Sidi Mohammed b. al-Arbi Lmdaghri Alawi.\
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