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Census of the Authentic Awlad El Lhioui
They are divided into three groups: the people of the village of Afarnou sefli and Tamizguida are the descendants of a single man, who is Mr. Abd al-Wahhab ben al-Tahir, and their cousins at Dar Si Ibn Ahmed.
Those who moved to the Zawiya of Sheikh Al-Talidi from the Al-Akhmas tribe for compelling reasons that led to their migration in the early fourteenth century, and their origins and homes are still attributed to them in the aforementioned hamlet, and the people of the village of Boumzoud from the Jabal Habib tribe. Today, the people of the village of Afarnou sefli and Tamizguida are the descendants of the elderly Sheikh, Mr. Abd al-Wahhab ben al-Tahir El Lhioui, who died in the year 1349 AH at the age of nearly one hundred years, and left behind four men, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Al-Tahir, and Mr. Abd al-Salam. As for Mr. Muhammad, his lineage became extinct. As for Mr. Ahmed, he left behind only one son named Mr. Abdallah, and Mr. Abdallah left behind three male children, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Abd al-Salam, and Mr. Issa, and they have male children. As for the children of Mr. Muhammad ben Abdallah ben Ahmed ben Abd al-Wahhab mentioned, they are five men, who are: Mr. Al-Mukhtar, Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Al-Wahid, and Mr. Abd al-Salam. As for his brother Mr. Abd al-Salam ben Abdallah ben Ahmed ben Abd al-Wahhab mentioned, he has four male children, who are Muhammad, Al-Bashir, Abd al-Wahid, and Ahmed. As for Mr. Issa, he has one son named Ahmed. As for the children of their cousin Mr. Al-Tahir, they are from his son Mr. Abd al-Salam, while his brother Mr. Muhammad left no descendants. The descendants of Mr. Abd al-Salam ben al-Tahir ben Abd al-Wahhab mentioned are three men: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Al-Tahir, and Mr. Ahmed, who moved after the death of their father and settled in Boukhalef and Ain Zaitoun in the outskirts of Tangier with their maternal uncles, the Al-Taydi Sharifs. They are four men: Abd al-Salam, Ahmed, Ali, and Issa. The fourth is the father of the author of the book, Mr. Abd al-Salam ben Abd al-Wahhab mentioned, who died in the year 1385 AH at the age of nearly ninety years. He left behind five male children, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Al-Tahir, Mr. Al-Mukhtar, and Mr. Hassan, and each one of them has male children. As for Mr. Muhammad, he has two male children, who are Mr. Al-Amin and Abd al-Aziz; Al-Amin has a son named Nur al-Din, and Abd al-Aziz has a son named Ridwan. As for his brother Mr. Ahmed, he has a male son named Abd al-Salam. As for their brother Mr. Al-Tahir, he has five male children, who are: Mr. Ahmed Essam, Mr. Muhammad Essam, Mr. Abd al-Salam Said, Mr. Abd al-Karim Ismail, and Mr. Jaafar, and they live in Tetouan in the neighborhood of Moulay Hassan in Seguiyat al-Raml. As for Mr. Al-Mukhtar ben Abd al-Salam, their brother, he has five male children, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, and Mr.
Abd al-Salam, Mr. Abd al-Hadi, and Mr. Idris, and they live with their paternal uncle Ahmed in the neighborhood of Tamizguida. As for Mr. Hassan ben Abd al-Salam, he has five male children, who are: Mr. Al-Mustafa, Mr. Abd al-Khaliq, Mr. Al-Amin, Mr. Hassan, and Mr. Al-Said, and they live in the village of Al-Khamis Al-Jadida. As for the people of Al-Akhmas known as the people of Dar Si Ibn Ahmed, they are: Mr. Hassan ben Abd al-Salam ben the Faqih Muhammad, who moved from Ahmed ben Abd al-Salam El Lhioui ben Abd al-Salam ben the Faqih Muhammad, who moved from Ahmed ben Abd al-Salam, and he has two parents: Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Al-Mustafa, and Mr. Abd al-Salam the Elder, who resides in Tangier with his mother (the divorced daughter of Al-Shahid Al-Laiti) in the neighborhood of Casablanca near the secondary schools, and Abd al-Salam the Younger, and his brother Mr. Hassan, and they are still under the care of their parents in the Zawiya of Al-Akhmas. As for the children of his paternal uncle Mr. Muhammad, only one son remained of them, named Mr. Al-Mofaddal ben Abd al-Salam ben Muhammad ben the Faqih Muhammad El Lhioui who moved, known as Si Ibn Ahmed. As for the children of their paternal uncle known as the Al-Ilmi family, who moved from the village of Abu Jabal to the Zawiya of Al-Akhmas and where his descendants remain: as for the children of Mr. Al-Ilmi in name and lineage, they are Mr. Ahmed and his brothers Mr. Al-Ayyashi. Mr. Ahmed has four male children, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Al-Mustafa, and Mr. Hassan. As for the two sons of his brother Mr. Al-Ayyashi, they are Mr. Muhammad and his brother Mr. Ahmed. These are several of the El Lhioui children present in the Al-Akhmas tribe. As for Mr. Muhammad, the brother of Mr. Al-Ilmi who settled in the village of Ain Akhbar, he has two sons: Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Hassan. As for Muhammad, he died and left behind a single son named Mr. Hassan, who settled in the hamlet of Boulqama. As for his paternal uncle Mr. Hassan, he is still in the village of Ain Akhbar, and he has children whose names were not conveyed to me due to their young age, and I received this information about them from their eldest, Mr. Hassan mentioned first. As for the people of the hamlet of Boumzoud, I contacted their eldest, Mr. Al-Tayeb ben Mr. Al-Ilm El Lhioui, on the 24th of Jumada al-Ula in the year 1393 AH, corresponding to June 26, 1973 AD, at Souq الثلاثاء Jebel Habib, and he informed me that he is over 90 years old. After I asked him, he called his nephew, Mr. Abd al-Salam, and he had with him the eldest of the Ashraf of Awlad Anfilla from the hamlet of Al-Jubayla Al-Kabira, nicknamed Mr. Abd al-Salam.
ben Tariqa, and his age is close to the first. He answered me that he did not witness in the hamlet of Boumzoud except two houses: one belonging to his father Mr. Al-Ilm El Lhioui and the other to his paternal uncle Mr. Al-Tahir Al-Hashimi El Lhioui. His father, Mr. Al-Ilm, left behind 4 males, who are: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Ahmed, Mr. Al-Tayeb, and Mr. Al-Mofaddal, and each of the three brothers has descendants, except Mr. Al-Mofaddal who has no descendants. As for Mr. Muhammad, he left behind two sons, who are Mr. Abd al-Salam and his brother Mr. Al-Amin; Mr. Abd al-Salam has no descendants, while his brother Mr. Al-Amin has two male sons, who are Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Al-Mustafa. As for Mr. Al-Tayeb, the present and responsive, he has four children: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Al-Ilm, Mr. Al-Mustafa, and Mr. Abd al-Salam. Al-Said has two sons: Mr. Abd al-Wahid and Mr. Abd al-Salam. Mr. Al-Ilm has two sons: Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Abd al-Salam, and the other two are Azyan. As for Mr. Ahmed ben Al-Ilm, he left behind four children: Mr. Muhammad, Mr. Abd al-Salam, Mr. Al-Mukhtar, and Mr. Allal. Mr. Abd al-Salam has two sons in Ksar El Kebir / or Tétouan context (Baltanja), who are Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Al-Said, and the rest of the brothers are bachelors. As for Mr. Al-Tahir, the brother of Al-Ilm mentioned, he left behind two sons, who are Mr. Ahmed and Mr. Al-Tahir; Mr. Ahmed has one son named Al-Mukhtar who lives in Tetouan and works as a barber on Al-Mutaqaddim Street, and his brother Mr. Al-Tahir has two sons: Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Abd al-Salam. The census of the El Lhioui children about whom there is no doubt has ended. I asked him about his maternal uncles known as Awlad Al-Mamoun and Awlad Al-Makki, who carry the El Lhioui name and reside in the village of Afarnou sefli, having migrated to it in the early 14th century. He answered me that he knows about them that they were seven brothers who came out of the hamlet of Qunou'a Al-Habibia; some of them settled in the aforementioned village of Afarnou sefli, some of them settled in the village of Bani Barqa from the Al-Sarif tribe, and others settled elsewhere. Those of them who have descendants in the village of Afarnou sefli are Dar Al-Makki and Dar Al-Mamoun. I have heard reliably from the elders of our village, both men and women, especially the elderly among them, that they have no lineage to them even though they carried the El Lhioui name, and perhaps it reached them through a noble woman from the El Lhioui family, so her children were called by this name, and this is a deceptive way to enter a lineage for one who does not belong to it. Our elderly grandfather, Mr. Abd al-Wahhab, used to reject them from the lineage, and he knew better about them because he lived in the hamlet of Boumzoud from the tribe of...
Jebel Habib in the beginning of his time, then he returned to the birthplace of his fathers and ancestors in the neighborhood of Tamizguida until he died there. Al-Allama Ibn al-Sadiq, may God have mercy on him, did not mention any house for the noble Awlad El Lhioui in the hamlet of Qunou'a Al-Habibia. In view of the ambiguity and the criticism surrounding them, I removed them from the ranks of the El Lhioui family and did not count anyone among their descendants in it. I asked them for their lineage tree, but they brought no proof on the matter, and I grew more suspicious of their claim, and found nothing to set the mind at ease, and God knows best about their condition.
End of the Section, to be continued
Author
Taher Ben Abdessalam El Lhioui Al-Wahhabi Al-Alami Al-Hassani
Foreword
Abdallah Guennoun
Digital Edition, Translation and Presentation
Jaafar El Lhioui
Northern Morocco ArchiveConclusion
The archival lineage records preserved by historian Taher El Lhioui offer critical insights into the structural dynamics of the early prophetic households. By documenting these primary transmissions and clarifying descendant pathways, his work serves as an essential bridge connecting foundational Islamic history with the genealogical heritage of Northern Morocco.
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