Background
First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Bannani was born in Fes in 1727, a city where he studied, lived for his entire life and was also buried in.
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Muhammad Ibn al-Hassan al-Bannani
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He studied under many of the important scholars of his time including al-Tayyib al-Wazzani and the famous Sufi Ahmad ibn al-Mubarak (author of Kitab al-Ibriz).
Career
After a period of study, he became the imam and khatib of the famous Karaouine mosque and university and also taught there. He died in 1780 Civil Engineering and was buried next to another reputable scholar of Fes, Muhammad Mayyara, in the Darb at-Taweel cemetery near the Karaouine mosque. A reference to his famous commentary is written on his tomb which reads:
Here lies the tomb of the great scholar
The unique and famous learned man
The beaming sun and most elite of the scholars
He who God has Bestowed his servants with
From His Grace and Gifted with his genuineness
The Sheikh, author of First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Fath ar-Rabbani
Muhammad ibn al-Hassan al-Bannani.
