🔷The way the people of Knowledge dressed in al-Andalus.

From the most astonishing things is that the Students and Muhadithīn of Córdoba used to memorize wearing clothing of hoods.

Although they were raised in a foreign environment (al-Andalus), that environment differed with Arabs in their habits. Like how Imām Mālik said: “Turbans and slippers are from the ways the Arabs in the past. These habits are rarely done by non-Arabs.”

🔷One of the reasons Yahyā ibn Yahyā al-Laythi al-Andalusī (student of Imām Mālik) sought seeking knowledge, was because (one day) he was passing Zayd ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Lakhmī al-Andalusī (a top scholar of Hadith and Fiqh) and he was sitting having a conversation with his companion. And how astonishing Zayd was (on what he did)! Imām Zayd said to him, “My son! If you were dedicated on learning take from your hair and fix you clothes!” The companion of Zayd was in clothing of a servant. So Imam ibn Yahya did that and strove hard in teaching until he surpassed the students of Zayd.

🔶Note: Zayād ibn Abd ar-Rahmān al-Lakhmī al-Qurtubī, is the the first who entered the Muwata to the land of al-Andalus.

📸Pic of Shaykh Sa’īd al-Kamalī in Alhambra Castle.

📚Source: Madrsah al-Hadīth fī Qurtuba from Doctor Ahmed Ali al-Qarnī, teacher in Medina University.

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🔷Andalusian copy of Sahih al-Bukharī.

Credit from Shaykh Abd Allah at-Tourātī at-Tetuanī. (https://twitter.com/taourati1)

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Imām ibn Abd al-Barr al-Andalusī:

They should not prevent the youth, if he knows something, from speaking about what he has knowledge of. Perhaps a person may be young in age, but an elder with regards to his knowledge. And Allah blesses whom He wills through wisdom and mercy.

Source: At-Tamhīd, Volume 23, pg. 150

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🔷The Grand Mosque of Chefchouen.

If you want to see a old Mosque that became one of the first places of worship for the Andalusians coming into North Africa then this one of them.

The Mosque was helped built in the 9th Century Hijra (15th century) by the ruler at the time, Moulay Ali ibn Rashid who helped also founded the city of the mosque, Chefchaouen.

The city, Chefchaouen was founded as a purpose of defending the northern coast of North Africa from growing European powers from invading.

This was also a very critical era for the Muslims because of Andalusians started to migrate out of al-Andalus and into other Muslim lands after fall of Granada in 897AH (1492).

Many Muslims started to migrate to North Africa to rebuild their lives and help establish new cities, villages, buildings, etc. such as Tétouan, Fes and Chefchouen. They helped build their new lives based upon their Andalusian European culture as we can still see today.

It wasn’t untill the 17th century when the final migrants started to settle in Chefchouen after the exile of Muslims from Spain.

📸Taken in Summer 1440H.

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🔷The secret world beneath Alhambra

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0832g29/the-hidden-world-beneath-the-ancient-alhambra-fortress

Hundreds of people (daily) visit the former rooms of the castle on top, but have no idea about the hidden rooms that lie beneath them.

Such as: Secret escape routes, secret tunnels that guards will stand near and protect from danger, dungeons,etc.

As mentioned in the video from one of the Spanish archeologists, “There is still much to discover.”

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🔷Ibn Hazm al-Andalusī:

The sign of sorrow is a flame.

That strikes the heart,
and burns the same,

As too the tears that freely go

Adown the cheeks in ceaseless flow.

Ring of the Dove 🕊

📸Taken in Marrakesh, Summer 1440H.

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🔷Very useful map of the cities of al-Andalus in Arabic.

Zoom in to see more.

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