Ahmad Zarruq

[1][2] He is considered one of the most prominent and accomplished legal, theoretical, and spiritual scholars in Islamic history, and is thought by some to have been the renewer of his time (mujaddid).

He was also the first to be given the honorific title "Regulator of the Scholars and Saints" (muhtasib al-‘ulama’ wa al-awliya’).

[3] His shrine is located in Misrata, Libya, however unknown militants exhumed the grave and burnt half the mosque.

Zarruq was born on 7 June 1442 (22nd Muharram, 846 of the Islamic 'Hijra' calendar) - according to Sheikh Abd Allah Gannun - in a village in the region of Tiliwan, a mountain area of Morocco.

[4] He was of the Berber tribe of the Barnusi[5] who lived in an area between Fes and Taza, and was orphaned of both his mother and father within the first seven days of his birth.