Abu Muhammad Salih ibn Yansaran Said ibn Ghafiyyan ibn al-Haj Yahya al-Dukkali al-Majiri (Arabic: أبو محمد صالح) (sometimes spelled al-Magiri), simply known as Abu Muhammad Salih (1155–1234), was a Moroccan saint and one of the successors of Abu Madyan.[1] He was the patron saint of Safi and lived during the reign of the Almohad Caliphate.[2]
Salih was born in 1155 in the town of Asfi (Safi). His family were a Berber family that settled in Asfi in the mid 11th century. They belonged to the Banu Hayy, a sub-clan of the Banu Nasr, a clan of the Banu Magir, a Southern Masmuda Berber tribe.[3] He studied under Abu Abdallah Mohammed Amghar in Ribat Shakir.[4] He left Asfi in c. 1180 to study in Alexandria, where he spent twenty years. In c. 1194,[5] he returned to Morocco and founded a ribat in Safi.[6]
Y. Benhima: "L’évolution du peuplement et l’organisation du territoire de la région de Safi à l’époque almohade", in: Los Almohades, Problemas y Perspectivas
Abu Muhammad Silih, Al-Manaqib wa-l-ta'rikh, Rabat, 1990