Nur al-Din al-Samhudi

Nur al-Din Ali ibn Abd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Hasani al-Samhudi (علي بن أحمد السمهودي) was a 15th-century Shafi'i Islamic scholar of the Mamluk Era. He is known to be the last person to enter and clean the Inner Chamber of the prophet Muhammad's grave. Al Samhudi wrote Wafa al-Wafa bi akhbar Dar al-Mustafa in five volumes. In this book he intended to gather in it everything connected to the city of Medina.