Skip to content
EntityQ9001775· pop 7· linked from 6 articles

Also known as Mann-Allah ibn Hafiz ibn ʿAmr, Abu Muhammad

Ha-Mim () is the short form of the name Ha-Mim ibn Mann-Allah ibn Harir ibn Umar ibn Rahfu ibn Azerwal ibn Majkasa (), also known as Abu Muhammad; he was a member of the Majkasa sub-tribe of the Ghomara Berbers who proclaimed himself a prophet in 925 near Tetouan in present-day Morocco. He was named after a well-known combination of Qur'anic initial letters.

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

1 sections
Contents
  • References

Ha-Mim () is the short form of the name Ha-Mim ibn Mann-Allah ibn Harir ibn Umar ibn Rahfu ibn Azerwal ibn Majkasa (), also known as Abu Muhammad; he was a member of the Majkasa sub-tribe of the Ghomara Berbers who proclaimed himself a prophet in 925 near Tetouan in present-day Morocco. He was named after a well-known combination of Qur'anic initial letters.

His claim was widely accepted among the Ghomara of the time, and he established rules for them. He said that he received a revelation in the Berber language, portions of which historian Ibn Khaldun quotes in Arabic: "O You who are beyond sight, who watches the world, release me from my sins! O You who saved Moses from the sea, You believe in Ha-Mim and in his father Abu-Khalaf Mann Allah..."

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ha-Mim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 7 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0