Habib Umar's Migration to Al-Bayda PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 17 March 2009 08:25
When the situation became difficult due to the Communist Regime that existed in South Yemen at that time, he migrated to the city of al Bayda which was in North Yemen, at the beginning of Safar 1402 AH which corresponds to December 1981. There he persevered in study and invitation to Allah. He resided in the Ribat[1] of al-Bayda. In Bayda he took knowledge from the Imam, the Gnostic, al-Habib Muhammad bin Abdullah al-Haddar and the erudite scholar al-Habib Zain bin Ibrahim Bin Sumayt. He was avid in establishing lessons and assemblies of knowledge. He would often travel in order to call to Allah in the various localities of al-Bayda, al-Hudaydah and Taiz. He used to frequently visit Ta`iz in order to take knowledge from the erudite scholar, the narrator of Hadith through connected transmission, al-Habib Ibrahim bin Umar bin Aqil.

His repeated visits to the two Noble Sacred Precincts of Mecca and Medina

He began to frequent the two Sacred Precincts from the month of Rajab 1402 AH (April, 1982) onwards. There he learned from the Imam, the Gnostic, the Caller to Allah, al-Habib Abdul-Qadir bin Ahmad Al-Saqqaf and the Gnostic, the Caller to Allah, al-Habib Ahmad Mashhur bin Tahir al-Haddad, and the Gnostic, the erudite scholar, al-Habib Abu Bakr al-Attas bin Abdullah al-Habshi. He took license to narrate from the chains of transmission in Hadith and in other sciences from the narrator of connected chains, Shaykh Muhammad Yasin al-Fadani and the erudite scholar, the conveyer of Hadith of the two sanctuaries, the noble descendant of the Prophet, Muhammad bin Alawi al-Maliki as well as other scholars.