Muhammad bin Salim Ould Adud
- Died
- 1430 AH
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Muhammad Salim Ould Adud (1348–1430 AH / 1929–2009 CE) was a Mauritanian jurist, judge, and poet who served as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance and was known for his extensive versifications of Islamic legal works .
Lineage and Education
He was Muhammad Salim ibn Muhammad Ali ibn Abd al-Wadud al-Hashimi al-Shinqiti, born in Mauritania in 1929 CE . Raised in a family of scholars, he received his initial training in religious and Arabic linguistic sciences from his parents . During his youth, he memorized the Quran according to the recitation of Warsh, mastered Arabic grammatical analysis, committed extensive classical poetry, Arab genealogies, and historical lore to memory, and studied dozens of foundational instructional texts (mutūn) under several contemporary scholars . His family established a renowned educational camp (maḥḍara) in the desert settlement of Umm al-Qura in the Trarza region, where traditional sciences were studied by numerous pupils, including his maternal nephew Muhammad al-Hasan Ould al-Dadow .
Judicial and Public Career
Ould Adud held multiple judicial posts within the Mauritanian legal system. He served as a judge in the Islamic primary court in Nouakchott, then as an advisor on the Court of Appeal, and subsequently as its vice president . He was later appointed vice president of the Supreme Court and president of its Islamic Chamber, during which he worked to replace statutory civil codes with rulings grounded in Islamic jurisprudence . He subsequently entered the government as Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance .
Alongside his domestic appointments, he participated in international Islamic jurisprudence bodies, serving as a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Muslim World League, the International Islamic Fiqh Academy, and the Islamic Research Academy at al-Azhar .
Scholarly Contributions and Death
Ould Adud was noted for his mastery of didactic poetry and jurisprudential compilation. He composed al-Tashīl wa-al-Takmīl, a didactic poem spanning ten thousand lines that versifies and comments upon Mukhtaṣar Khalīl in Maliki jurisprudence . At the request of a student, he also authored al-Muwaththaq min ʿUmdat al-Muwaffaq, an urjūzah of 3,726 lines versifying the Hanbali legal primer ʿUmdat al-Fiqh by Ibn Qudamah while integrating additional rulings from its commentary . Additionally, he wrote a marginal gloss (ḥāshiyah) on al-Hasan Ould Zayn's commentary on the grammatical poem Lāmiyyat al-Afʿāl .
Ould Adud died in 1430 AH (2009 CE) .
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List of Works
Matn al-Muwaththaq min Umdat al-Muwaffaq (The Verified Text from the Pillar of al-Muwaffaq) is a comprehensive didactic poem in Hanbali jurisprudence. Comprising 3,726 lines in the rajaz meter, it versifies the classical legal primer Umdat al-Fiqh by Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudamah (d. 620 AH) while integrating additional rulings and explanations from Sharh al-Umdah.