Background
He was the grandson of the founder of the zaouia of Dila, Abu Bakr ibn Mohammed al-Majati as-Sanhaji (1526-1612) and brother of Mohammed al-Hajj (died 1671), who proclaimed himself sultan of Fez in 1641.
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Abu Bakr al-Dilai
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Al-Dila'i wrote (ao) treatises on law (Al Kitab Zawahir al-Fikri), poems in praise of the prophet Mohammed (Zahr al-hada'ih and Al-Zahr al-nadi fi-l-khuluk al-muhammadi). and an urdjuza (poem in a specific metre) about the shorfa (descendants of the prophet), Durrat al-tidjan. Al-Dila'i performed the hajj, together with his father, in 1659 and wrote his Rihla (account of the journey) in the form of a poem of 136 lines, entitled Al-Rihla al-Mujaddasa.
