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Ubaydillah ibn Ahmad al-Muhajir

He represents one of the early ancestors of the Bâ Alawi lineage in Yemen; he was the son of Ahmad ibn Isa al-Muhajir, who migrated from Basra to Hadramaut. Following his father he settled in the village of al-Sumal near Tarim, where he died in 383 AH (993 CE). His son Alawi was the first member of the family born in Yemen, and the entire Bâ Alawi (Al Ba Alawi) sada lineage descends through this branch. No cross-verified numeric coordinate exists for al-Sumal, so no map pin is placed.

es-SumalDied 383 AHView →

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Umar al-Muhdar ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf

Son of Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf, Umar al-Muhdar was the leading scholar and Sufi who institutionalised the Bâ Alawi community of Tarim in the 15th century. He established a broad consultative council and organised the mosques, endowments and welfare work of Tarim, al-Shihr and al-Mukalla. He built the famous al-Muhdar Mosque, whose mud-brick minaret (about 50 m) is one of the tallest in the world. He died while prostrate in the noon prayer and was buried beside his forefathers in the Zanbal Cemetery of Tarim.

TarimDied 833 AHView →

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Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf ibn Muhammad

Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf (739/1338 – 819/1416) was one of the great forefathers of the Bâ Alawi tradition in Tarim, regarded as founder of the Saqqaf (Al Saqqaf) branch and called "al-Muqaddam al-thani" for his closeness to al-Faqih al-Muqaddam. He earned the epithet "al-Saqqaf" (the roofer) because he veiled his spiritual states beneath humility as under a roof. He taught the classics such as al-Ghazali's Ihya, al-Qushayri's Risala and al-Suhrawardi's Awarif al-Maarif, and built ten mosques in Hadramaut. His thirteen sons, including Umar al-Muhdar and Abu Bakr al-Sakran, all became scholars; he was buried beside his father in the Zanbal Cemetery of Tarim.

TarimDied 819 AHView →

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