Al-Tādilī (d. 627/1229–30 or 628/1230–1), known as Ibn al-Zayyāt, was a Moroccan qāḍī and scholar renowned for his hagiographical work al-Tashawwuf ilā rijāl al-taṣawwuf.
1. Life
His full name is Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf b. Yaḥyā b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Tādilī. He was born in the region of Tādla during the second half of the sixth/twelfth century and died in Marrakech. He did not attract the attention of such later authors as al-Bādisī (d. after 722/1322) and Ibn Qunfudh (d. 810/1407–8), but they nevertheless used al-Tashawwuf in their…