His maternal great-grandfather, Ahmad al-Habshi, met his father, before he was to meet his future wife, Abd Allah's mother and he said to Imam al-Haddad's father, 'Your children are my children, and there is a blessing in them'. His mother was Salma bint Aydarus bin Ahmad al-Habshi. Imam al-Haddad's paternal grandmother, Salma, was also known to be a woman of gnosis and Sainthood. His father was Alawi bin Muhammad al-Haddad, a pious man of taqwa, from the people of Allah. Examples of such works are The Book of Assistance, The Lives of Man, and Knowledge and Wisdom.Ībd Allah (or Abdullah) was born on Sunday night, 5th Safar, 1044 AH (1634 CE) in al-Subayr, a village on the outskirts of Tarim in Hadhramawt. Their appeal lies in the concise way in which the essential pillars of Islamic belief, practice, and spirituality have been streamlined and explained efficiently enough for the modern reader.

He was an adherent to the Ash'ari Sunni Creed of Faith ( Aqidah), while in Islamic jurisprudence ( Fiqh), he was a Sunni Muslim of Shafi'i school.ĭespite being a major source of reference among the Sunni Muslims (especially among Sufis), only recently have his books began to receive attention and publication in the English-speaking world. He lived his entire life in the town of Tarim in Yemen's Valley of Hadhramawt and died there in 1720 CE (1132 Hijri). ' Abdallah ibn 'Alawi al-Haddad ( Arabic: عبد الله ابن علوي الحدّاد, romanized: ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād Arabic pronunciation: ) (born in 1634 CE) was a Yemeni Islamic scholar.

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