Ba 'Alawiyya

The Ba'Alawi tariqa (Arabic: طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Tariqa Ba Alawiyya is a Sufi order^[1] centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tied to the Ba'Alawi sadah family.

It was founded by al-Faqih Muqaddam As-Sayyid Muhammad bin Ali Ba'Alawi al-Husaini, who died in the year 653 AH (1232 CE). He received his ijazah from Abu Madyan in Morocco via his students^[2].His scholarly lineage from Abu Madyan is criticized because the name of the student used as a link in the chain of transmission is not recorded as a student of Abu Madyan.^[3]^[4] Abu Madyan was a student of Shadhiliya tariqa chain of spiritual transmitters from Muhammad. The members of this Sufi way are mainly sayyids whose ancestors hail from the valley of Hadramaut, in the southern part of Yemen, although it is not limited to them.

The chain of ijazah of spiritual Sufi transmission from al-Faqih Muqaddam Sayyid Muhammad traces back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad via his cousin Ali and from him, his son Husain.^{[citation needed]}

^ Read Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons Online by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff | Books.
^ Anne K. Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925, Routledge, 2003, pg 13
^ Utsman al bantani, Imaduddin. "Salim Bin Jindan, Raudatul Wildan Dan Walisongo Di Ba'alawikan". Nahdlatul Ulum.
^ al Yafi 'i. Mir'atul Jinan (in Arabic). p. 355, Juz 3.

[1] Read Secret Practices of the Sufi Freemasons Online by Baron Rudolf von Sebottendorff | Books.

[2] Anne K. Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925, Routledge, 2003, pg 13

[3] Utsman al bantani, Imaduddin. "Salim Bin Jindan, Raudatul Wildan Dan Walisongo Di Ba'alawikan". Nahdlatul Ulum.

[4] Yafi 'i. Mir'atul Jinan (in Arabic). p. 355, Juz 3.

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