Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Murabit al-Dila'i
Abu Abdallah Mohammed al-Hajj ibn Mohammed ibn Mohammed ibn Abd-al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr al-Dilai, also known as Al-Murabit, was a renowned linguist and scholar of Arabic grammar and usul-al-fiqh. He was the grandson of the founder of the zaouia of Dila, Abu Bakr ibn Mohammed al-Majati as-Sanhaji and brother of Mohammed al-Hajj, who proclaimed himself sultan of Fez in 1641. Al-Dila'i wrote treatises on law, poems in praise of the prophet Mohammed. and an urdjuza about the shorfa, Durrat al-tidjan. Al-Dila'i performed the hajj, together with his father, in 1659 and wrote his Rihla in the form of a poem of 136 lines, entitled Al-Rihla al-Mujaddasa. He was the teacher of Abu Ali al-Hassan al-Yusi.
