Ahmad al-Ghumari

Ghumari authored more than one hundred books. He was well known for a debate which acrimoniously began between him and fellow hadith scholar Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani, and later continued with Ghumari's younger brother Abdullah and Albani.^[5]

Like the rest of his family, Ghumari was a leader of the Siddiqiyya Sufi order.^[6] Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali claimed that al-Ghumari had chosen to live a very simple life and eschewed material excess.^[7]

Although a practitioner of Sufism, Ghumari criticized some Sufis, especially the rival Naqshbandi order.^[8] Like Ibn Hazm, Ghumari viewed scholarly differences of opinion as wrong and he often used harsh language when responding to intellectual opponents.^[5][8] Having originally followed the Maliki school of thought like most of Muslim scholarship in Morocco, al-Ghumari later switched to the Shafi'i school for a period and finally opted for absolute independent reasoning.^[9] Unlike most of Moroccan scholarship, al-Ghumari opposed the Ash'ari school of theology.^[10] Muhammad Abu Khubza, among other Moroccan scholars, also claim that al-Ghumari temporarily adhered to the Zaidiyyah school of Shia Islam.^[10]

• Tabyin al-balah mimman ankara wujud hadith Wa-man lagha fa-la jumu'ah lahu. Dar al-Basa`ir, 1982.^[11]

• Avoid Imitating the Kuffar^{[permanent dead link]} by Ahmad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari
• Arabic Online Biography of the Ibn al-Siddiq family