Abu Salim 'Abd Allah ibn Mohammed ibn Abu Bakr al-'Ayyashi (Arabic: أبو سالم العياشي) (May 4, 1628[1] – December 13 or 18, 1679[2]) was a well-known travel writer, poet, lawyer, and Sufi scholar from Morocco.
[3] Abu Salim al-'Ayyashi was born on 4 May 1628 in the Berber tribe of ait Ayyash living in the Middle Moroccan Atlas.
Al-Ayyashi lived and studied in Fez and joined the Sufi order of the Nasiriyya in Tamegroute.
He travelled three times to the Hejaz in 1649, 1653 and 1661 and stayed for long periods in Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem and Cairo.
[6] He wrote a two volume rihla about his journeys: Ma’ al-Mawa’id (Table Water).