Wednesday, 14 August 2019

SHAYKH TILMIDHĪ WULD ‘ABDALLAH (d. 14 AUGUST 2019)


SHAYKH TILMIDHĪ WULD ‘ABDALLAH: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Written by: Mustafa Briggs 
Edited by: Yusuf Hilliard (Flood Plains)


SHAYKH TILMIDHĪ WULD ‘ABDALLAH: BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Written by: Mustafa Briggs
 Edited by: Yusuf Hilliard (Flood Plains)
 

To Allah do we belong and to Him we are returning.

Shaykh Tilmidhī wuld ‘Abdallah, born Muḥammad Maḥmūd wuld ‘Abdallah was a descendant of the Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ from the Idaw ‘Alī Tribe in Southern Mauritania. His ancestor Shaykh ‘Abdallah, from whom he takes his family name, was a teacher to Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ al-Shinqiṭī, who foresaw that his student would one day become his shaykh. This later became manifest when Shaykh Muḥammad al-Ḥāfiẓ returned from Fez with the wird of Shaykh Aḥmad b. Maḥammad al-Tijānī and Shaykh ‘Abdallah became his disciple and received the wird from his former student.

Shaykh Tilmidhī in his youth became a successful and wealthy trader, who owned many shops, properties, and containers of goods in Mauritania and Senegal. Tilmidhī told us that during a business trip to collect merchandise in Senegal in 1963, his cousin Muḥammad wuld Shaykh once asked him to accompany him to the airport to welcome his teacher, Shaykh Ibrāhīm b. al-Ḥājj ‘Abdallah Niasse, but Tilmidhī was reluctant to do so as he had no interest in those kind of things.

He accompanied his cousin to the airport anyway, and as soon as he set his eyes on Shaykh Ibrāhīm, the latter “immediately took my heart completely” and he followed him to his house in Dakar and then on to Kaolack that night with the intention of giving him allegiance and becoming his disciple.

 
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When he arrived in Medina Baye (Kaolack) that night, he was not able to see Shaykh Ibrāhīm, and he described that night as “ the longest night in his life.” The following day, he was able to meet him and take the [Tijānī] Path from him, and that was the beginning of a love and relationship that would last until his final days.
 
Tilmidhī made up his mind to abandon everything and live with Shaykh Ibrāhīm in Medina Baye. He purchased the land next to Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s house and built his own. He took to the Path and completed his spiritual training (tarbiya) and in the early 70’s. Shaykh Ibrāhīm gave his daughter Ndeye Fatou Niasse in marriage to him. Tilmidhī also requested the hand of Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s other daughter Ndeye Maryam for his younger brother, Shaykh Ni’ma wuld ‘Abdallah, and upon hearing this Shaykh Ibrāhīm said to him, “There is nothing you can ask me for that I can refuse you.”





His nickname «Tilmidhī», which means “my pupil” was given to him by Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse himself, as he once testified to his sincerity and said «anta tilmidhī» (you are my student) and so Muḥammad Maḥmūd decided he would rather be called by this name than his actual name, due to his love of Shaykh Ibrāhīm.

Tilmidhī also accompanied Baye on his final journey to Fez, Morocco to visit Shaykh Aḥmad al-Tijānī in the 70’s alongside his companion and mentor, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Mishrī, and was with Shaykh Ibrāhīm during his final trip to Paris in the 70s.
 
Shaykh Mukhtār b. al-Ḥājj Ibrāhīm Niasse informed us that during his father’s last days in Senegal, before his final journey to London, Shaykh Muḥammad al-Mishrī arrived to Kaolack to visit Shaykh Ibrāhīm with Tilmidhī (who was his driver at the time), a young Shaykh wuld Khayrī, and others. Upon hearing of their arrival, Shaykh Ibrāhīm told his son Mukhtār, “They were the ones I was waiting for,” and they spent a few days in Kaolack before heading to Dakar.
 
It is worth noting that Tilmidhī was one of the people who accompanied Shaykh Ibrāhīm to the airport in 1975 with Shaykh Muḥammad al-Mishrī, and upon their return to Mauritania, Mishrī passed away.

Imām Ḥassan Cissé also narrated that on his deathbed, Shaykh Ibrāhīm said to him, “There are four people who’s service (khidma) to me unmatched,” and Tilmidhī was one of them.
 
He lived his life in love and service to Shaykh Ibrāhīm and his family and disciples, and was praised by Baye himself in some of his poetry, as well as by his mentor Shaykh Muḥammad al-Mishrī and other major students of Baye. And he never missed spending the months of Rabī’ al-Awwal and Ramaḍān in Medina Baye since the time of Shaykh Ibrāhīm until his own death on 14 August 2019.



Al-Ḥamduli’llāh, we were blessed to spend many days and nights with him in Medina Baye and in his home in Nouakchott, Mauritania, and everything I’ve written here I’ve heard directly from either Shaykh Tilmidhī himself, his sons or the sons of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse.

May Allah the Exalted unite him with his beloved Shaykh Ibrāhīm in the highest level of Paradise.   

Written by: Mustafa Briggs






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