Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar b. Yaḥyā al-Hintātī (Arabic: أبو حفص عمر بن يحيى الهنتاتي, born Faskāt ū-Mzāl Īntī; c. 482–571 Hijri / 1090–1175 or 1176),[1] chief of the Hintata, was a close companion of Ibn Tumart and a shaper of the Almohad Empire greatly responsible for the unification of the Almohad corps.
[2] He lived a long life and helped maintain ties between the Almohad movement's early revolutionary doctrine and its later dynastic period established by ʿAbd al-Muʾmin.
[4] Abū Ḥafṣ led the Hintata tribe of the central Moroccan High Atlas,[5] and mobilized his soldiers to fight against the Almoravids in support of the Almohads.
[2] According to al-Baydhaq, Abū Ḥafṣ was a member of the Council of Ten, Ibn Tumart's closest advisors.
[2] Abū Ḥafṣ held a position just under ʿAbd al-Muʾmin in the Almohad hierarchy.