Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqiti

Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqeeti, better known as Ab Ould Akhtar (ca. 1905–1974) was a Saudi Arabian scholar, jurist, interpreter, fundamentalist and linguist, member of the Saudi Council of Senior Scholars, and member of the Muslim World League.
==Early life==
Muhammad Al-Amin bin Muhammad Al-Mukhtar bin Abdul Qadir bin Muhammad bin Noah bin Muhammad bin Ahmed bin Al-Mukhtar Al-Jakni Al-Shanqeeti, relative to Yaqoub Al-Jakni Al-Shanqeeti, was born on 17 February 1905, in the city of Tanbah in Mauritania. He grew up as an orphan and his uncles sponsored him and they raised him well and treated him, so he studied in their house the sciences of the Holy Qur'an, the Prophet's biography, literature and history, so that house was his first school. Then he contacted a number of scientists in his country, took them away, and obtained scientific licenses from them. He was known for intelligence, tact, diligence and prestige.
==Career==
Mohamed El Amin became a Mauritanian scholar and took over the judiciary in his country, where he was trusted by its rulers and rulers. In 1946, he came to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj, and it was a scientific trip accompanied by some of his students, around the time when Ibn Saud gave him Saudi citizenship, so he took over teaching at Dar Al-Uloom in Medina in 1950, then moved to Riyadh in 1952 to teach at the Scientific Institute, and the faculties of Sharia and the Arabic language, then worked as a member of the founding council of the Muslim World League, and was one of the first teachers at the Islamic University of Madinah established in 1961, then he was appointed as a member of the University Council, and was appointed as a member of the founding council of the Muslim World League, and a member of the Council of Senior Scholars on 8 August, 1971. His activity extended outside the Kingdom, which in 1966, he traveled to a number of Muslim-majority countries to call to God.
==Sheikhs==
* Mohammed bin Saleh. 
* Ahmed Al-Afram bin Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Jakni.
* Muhammad bin Al-Naama bin Zaidan.
* Ahmed bin Omar.
* Ahmed Fal bin Addo Al-Jakni.
* Ahmed bin Maud Al-Jakni.
==His disciples==
He has many disciples in his birthplace, the Prophet's Mosque and Riyadh, for example: Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Baz studied him in logic, Sheikh Attia Muhammad Salem, Sheikh Hamoud bin Aqla Al-Shuaibi, Sheikh Hammad Al-Ansari, Sheikh Saad bin Muhammad Al-Shuqairan Mufti in Al-Quwayiyah and the imam and preacher of its old mosque, and Sheikh Abdul Rahman bin Aboodah. He studied at the Scientific Institute such as Sheikh Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Sheikh Abdul Rahman al-Barrak, Sheikh Abu Bakr Zayd, and many others who studied it at the university and the Institute and its lessons throughout Saudi Arabia, and those who studied it from other Arab countries, Thana Allah Al-Madani and Sheikh Ahmed Shakir.
==Books==
* Lights of the statement in clarifying the Qur'an with the Qur'an
* Pushing the illusion of turmoil away from the verses of the book
* Al-Athb Al-Numayr from the councils of Al-Shanqeeti in interpretation
* Nouns and adjectives in transmission and mind
* Millennium in logic
* Research and Debate Etiquette
* Sincere Juman in the genealogy of the Arabs
* Systems in the statutes
* Memorandum of the principles of jurisprudence on the kindergarten of the beholder
* His journey to Hajj
* The Ten Pendants and the News of Their 
* Prohibition of permissibility of metaphor at home for worship and miracles
==Other peoples' views==
* One of his students, Sheikh Abdullah Ahmed Qadri, says about him: "He was strong in emotion, interacting with the verses, and showing those who saw and heard him that he interpreted, pondered, wondered, feared, saddened and pleased, according to the meanings in the verses."
* "He would move his hands and move while he was on his seat without feeling the intensity of his interaction with the meanings of the verses, so his seat would crawl until he reached the seat opposite him from the student seats."
* "He used to enter the classroom with a patient who could hardly speak from the pain of his throat, but shortly after the lecture began, he would start with his voice and forget that he was sick because of the intensity of his interaction with the meanings he delivered."
* His son Abdullah bin Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqeeti says: My father used to forbid us to eat acids, because they have an effect on memorization.
* Sheikh Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh said: (Fill a flag from head to toe) and he also said: (It is a verse in science, the Qur'an, language and Arab poetry). 
* Shaykh Ibn Baz said about him: (Whoever hears his hadith when he speaks in the interpretation, he is greatly impressed by the breadth of his knowledge, knowledge, eloquence and eloquence, and does not tire of hearing his speech).
* Sheikh Al-Albani said about him: (In terms of his collection of many sciences, I have not seen the like) and compared him to Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah.
* Shaykh Abu Bakr Zayd said: "If there was anyone at this time who deserved to be called Shaykh al-Islam, it would be him."
* Sheikh Hammad al-Ansari said: "He has a rare and strong portfolio, and it is considered rare in his time."
* Sheikh Abu Bakr Zayd said: "He was uncertain from the world, and I saw him not knowing the denominations of paper currency."
==Death==
Muhammad al-Amin al-Shanqeeti died in Makkah after performing Hajj on 10 January, 1974. He was prayed at the Grand Mosque and then buried in the cemetery of Al-Ma'ala in Mecca. As well as the praying for the prayer of the absent in the Prophet's Mosque.
==See also==
* Abdel-Hamid ibn Badis
* Rashid Rida
* Muhammad Abduh
* Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di
* Muqbil bin Hadi al-Wadi'i
* Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
* Al-Albani
* Ibn Baz
* Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen
* Abu Abd al-Rahman Ibn Aqil al-Zahiri
* Saudi Mosque
Category:1905 births
Category:1974 deaths
Category:Mauritanian Salafis
Category:Mauritanian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam
Category:Mauritanian Sunni Muslims
Category:Mauritanian writers
Category:Mauritanian jurists
Category:Burials at Jannat al-Mu'alla