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Qadi Ayyad ibn Musa (1083-1149)(Arabic: القاضي عياض بن موسى, in French transliteration Qadi Iyad) or Abu al-Fadl Ayyad ibn Amr ibn Musa ibn Ayyad ibn Muhammad ibn Abdillah ibn Musa ibn Ayyad al-Yahsubi al-Sabti (أبو الفضل عياض بن موسى بن عياض بن عمرو بن موسى بن عياض بن محمد بن عبد الله بن موسى بن عياض اليحصبي السبتي ) born in Ceuta (Sabtah)[1], then belonging to the Almoravid Empire, was the great imam of that city and, later, a high judge (qadi) in Granada. He was one of the most famous scholars of Maliki law and author of the well-known Al-Shifa bi-tarif huquq al-Mustafa on the virtues of the prophet and Tartib al-mardarik wa-taqrib al-masalik li-marifat alam madhab Malik, a collection of biographies of eminent Malikis, a.o. Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi.[2]
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He headed a revolt against the coming of the Almohades to Ceuta, but lost and was banished to Tadla and later Marrakech. He was a pupil of Abu Abdillah ibn Isa, of Imam Abu Abdillah ibn Hamdin and Abu al-Hassan ibn Siraj and teacher of imam Abu al-Walid Ibn Rushd (Averroes).
Qadi Ayyad is also wellknown as one of the seven saints of Marrakech and is buried near Bab Aïlen. His main work is called Ash-Shifâ Bi-Ahwâl Al-Mustafâ (Healing by news of the chosen one). The University of Marrakech (Cadi Ayyad) was named after him.