The Righteous Saints, Scholars, Jurists, Corners, And Schools For Memorizing The Holy Qur’an In Bani Walid “Warfalla”

A Documentary Study

Abstract

The city of Bani Walid was famous for its abundance of religious corners, scholars, and righteous people. It contributed to the establishment of scientific centers through men of knowledge, righteousness, and piety, and righteous saints belonging to the blessed Prophet’s circle, whose shrines are spread throughout most areas of Bani Walid. This study aims to document the most important religious corners that had a role in teaching the Qur’an. And disseminating religious knowledge and the most important saints, scholars and jurists in Medina and their honorable role in spreading religious sciences and jurisprudence in Medina, Libya and the Islamic world. In this study, the researcher used the historical, descriptive, qualitative, and documentary method. The study concluded that the city of Bani Walid is one of the Islamic cities that was concerned with establishing religious corners for memorizing the Holy Qur’an and disseminating its sciences, which played a social and jihadi role. It has many shrines and shrines for the righteous saints, scholars and jurists, whose number exceeds a hundred, and most of them belong to the Idrisid nobles who settled in the city of Bani Walid after the fall of the Idrisid state and the fall of Granada in Andalusia. They contributed to the establishment and development of the religious corners in central and western Libya and were among the most important jurists who were taught by them. Many Libyan scholars and jurists. They contributed to spreading religious sciences in many countries of the Islamic world and Africa. The city of Bani Walid was a religious shrine for many Maghreb scholars, and many jurists, scholars, and righteous people were buried there. It was an important city and meeting place for Hajj caravans, which contributed to its importance as a meeting place for scholars and jurists in the Maghreb. The residents of this city have contributed throughout the ages to the jihad against the colonialists, and the society in the city of Bani Walid is Sunni, Maliki, Ash’ari, Sufi, moderate, which is the same as most of Libyan society and the society of the Arab Maghreb.