Muhammad al-Jazuli

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Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Jazuli al-Simlali (died 1465) was a Moroccan Muslim of Berber tribe of Jazulah which was settled in the Sus area of Morocco between the Atlantic Ocean and the Atlas Mountains. He is most famous for compiling the Dala'il al-Khayrat, an extremely popular Muslim prayer book.

He studied locally and then went to the Madrasat As-Saffarîn in Fez where his room is still pointed out to visitors today. After settling a tribal feud he left the area and spent the next forty years in Makkah, Medina and Jerusalem. After his long journey, he returned to Fez where he completed the prayer book Dala'il al-Khayrat.

He was initiated into the Shadhili Tariqa, a Sufi order, by Sharif Abu Abdilllah Muhammad Ibn Amghar. He spent fourteen years in Khalwah (seclusion) and then went to Safi where he gathered around him many followers. The governor of Safi felt obliged to expel him and later poisoned him which caused his death in 869 A.H. (or 1464). Seventy-seven years after his death his body was exhumed for removal to Marrakesh and found to be uncorrupted.