Imam Ibn Marzuq al-Tilimsani ابن مرزوق التلمساني

Imam Muhammad b. Ahmad b. Marzuq al-Tilimsani rahimahullah (710-781 AH / 1310-1379 CE), known as al-Khatib, was the preeminent Maliki hadith and adab scholar of fourteenth-century Tlemcen in the Maghrib. He served as preacher (khatib) of the Marinid court, a position reflecting his stature as the leading religious voice of the dynasty, and authored major works in hadith and Prophetic biography, including a celebrated biographical work on the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan. He is to be distinguished from his grandson, Ibn Marzuq al-Hafid. His three-volume commentary on the Burda of Imam al-Busiri, Izhar Sidq al-Mawadda fi Sharh al-Burda, was composed in the generation immediately following al-Busiri himself, making it among the earliest sustained scholarly engagements with the poem. It is recognized alongside the commentaries of al-Bajuri and Ibn Hajar al-Haytami as one of the three classical reference commentaries on the Burda.