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Ahmad bin Muhammad bin al-Siddiq al-Ghumari (26 December 1902-1961) was a Muslim traditionist and scholar of Hadith from Morocco.[4]
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]
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