By Shoayb Ahmed Editing by Shoaib Rasheed The reformer and great scholar of Tafsīr, Ḥadīth, Fiqh, Uṣūl, history and the Arabic language, Ṭāhir b. Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ b. Aḥmad b. Mawhūb al-Samūni al-Jazā’iri al-Dimashqi (1852CE/1268AH – 1920 CE/1338AH), was born and passed away in Damascus. His father Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ migrated from French-occupied Algeria to Damascus in 1846 CE (1263 AH) along with the great Algerian leader ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jazā’iri. Muḥammad Ṣāliḥ lived there until he passed away in 1868 CE (1285 AH). He was a scholar of the Quranic sciences. He also read and repeated the lessons in Ṣaḥīḥ Bukhāri on…