A brief Biography About al-Imam, al-Muhaddith, al-Hafidh, al-

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A brief Biography Aboutal-Imam,
al-Muhaddith,al-Hafidh, al-UsuliyShaykh
Abdullahal-HarariyyKnown as al-Habashiy
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Who is He?

• In 1887, Somalia was occupied and divided into
  five parts and the western province (Harar) was
  given to al-Habashah (Ethiopia). From this city
  came this great Imam.
• He is the great alim  (Islamic scholar), an
  example of the ulama', al-'Imam, al-Muhaddith,
  the pious worshipper, ash-Shaykh Abu
  Abdir-Rahman, Abdullah Ibn Muhammad Ibn Yusuf,
  al-Harariyy, ash-Shaybiyy, al-Abdariyy, the
  Mufti of Somalia.

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Born in Harar 1910

• He is ash-Shaybiyy because Banu Shaybah is a clan
  of Quraysh and they are the people in charge of
  al-Kabah.
• He is al-Abdariyy because he also belongs to
  Abd-ud-Dar, a clan of Qusayy Ibn Kilab, the
  fourth grandfather of Prophet Muhammad,
  sallallahu alayhi wa sallam.
• He was born in Harar around 1328 A.H., or 1910
  R.C. He grew up in a humble house loving al-Ilm
  (Islamic knowledge) and its people.

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Hafidh of Quran Hadith

• He memorized al-Qur'an by heart and tartil
  (reading correctly with tajwid rules) when he was
  seven years old. He continued to scoop from the
  sea of knowledge.
• He memorized numerous books in various Islamic
  sciences. He gave Ilm al-Hadith a great amount
  of attention.

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Hafidh of Quran Hadith

• He memorized the six books of al-Hadith
• Sahih al-Bukhariyy,
• Muslim,
• at-Tirmithiyy,
• Abu Dawud,
• Ibn Majah,
• An-Nasa'iyy
• He memorized other books of Hadith with their
  isnad (biographies of the chains of relators).
• He was authorized by al-ulama' to pass Fatwa and
  to relate al-Hadith when he was less than
  eighteen years old

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Amazing Memory

• His intelligence and wonderful memory helped him
  get in depth in al-Fiqh ash-Shafiiyy, also
  al-Fiqh al-Malikiyy, al-Hanafiyy, and
  al-Hanbaliyy.
• He became the Mufti of Somalia (the highest
  religious authority qualified to pass Islamic
  judgments).

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A Prominent Master

• He learned and mastered many fields of knowledge.
  These include
• The Shafiiyy Fiqh and its Usul (the Science of
  Inferring Rules and Judgments),
• Nahw (Arabic and Grammar),
• The Sciences of the Arabic language,
• Tafsir (Science of Explanation of the Quran),
• Tajwid (the proper recitation of the Quran),
  including the fourteen Qiraat (ways of reciting
  Quran),
• And other sciences.

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His Narrators

• Among the many prominent narrators of his chains
  are
• Ibn Abbas, al-Hasan al Basriyy, ash-Shafiiyy,
  Abu Hanifah, Malik, Ahmad, at-Tabariyy,
  al-Ashariyy, al-Maturidiyy,
• Imam al-Bukhariyy, Muslim, al-Bayhaqiyy,
  ath-Thawriyy, an-Nawawiyy, Ibn Hajar,
  at-Tahawiyy, al-Qadi Iyad, and al-Ghazaliyy.

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His Sheikhs

• He took al-Fiqh ash-Shafiiyy and its Usul
  (science of inferring rules judgments) and
  an-Nahw (Arabic Grammar) from
• al-alim ash-Shaykh Muhammad Abdus-Salam
  al-Harariyy, ash-Shaykh Muhammad Umar Jami
  al-Harariyy, ash-Shaykh Muhammad Rashad
  al-Habashiyy, ash-Shaykh Ibrahim Abil-Ghayth
  Al-Harariyy, ash-Shaykh Yunus al-Habashiyy, and
  ash-Shaykh Muhammad Siraj al-Jabartiyy. 
• From those ulama' he took many main texts such
  as Alfiyyat-uz-Zubad, at-Tanbih, al-Minhaj,
  Alfiyyat-ubni-Malik, al-Luma by ash-Shiraziyy
  and other main texts.

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His Sheikhs

• He took the sciences of Arabic from Shaykh Ahmad
  al-Basir and ash-Shaykh Ahmad ibn Muhammad
  al-Habashiyy and others. 
• He read the Fiqh of Three Madhahib under Shaykh
  Muhammad al-Arabiyy al-Fasiyy, and ash-Shaykh
  Abdur-Rahman al-Habashiyy.
• He took at-Tafsir al-Quran from ash-Shaykh
  Sharif al-Habashiyy in his town, Jummah.

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His ilm of Hadith

• He took al-Hadith and its sciences from many
  teachers notably from
• al-Hafiz ash-Shaykh Abu Bakr Muhammad Siraj
  al-Jabartiyy, the Mufti of al-Habashah,
• and ash-Shaykh Abdur-Rahman Abdullah
  al-Habashiyy, and others.

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In Makkah

• He met with al-Muhaddith, al-Qari', Ahmad Ibn
  Abdil-Muttalib, the Head of the Qurra' in
  al-Masjid-ul-Haram in Makkah From him he took the
  14 ways of reciting al-Qur'an, as well as Ilm
  al-Hadith
• He also met ash-Shaykh, al-Qari', Dawud
  al-Jabartiyy.

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In Makkah

• He also the ulama of Makkah such as
• Shaykh Alawiyy al-Malikiyy, ash-Shaykh Amin
  al-Kutubiyy. 
• He attended circles by ash-Shaykh Muhammad
  al-Arabiyy at-Tabban. 
• He contacted ash-Shaykh Abdul-Ghafur
  an-Naqshabandiyy and took at-Tariqah
  an-Naqshabandiyyah from him .

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In al-Madinah

• Sheikh Abdullah then went to al-Madinah and
  contacted its ulama'. He took al-Hadith from
  ash-Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Muhammad as-Siddiqiyy
  al-Bakriyy.
• He stayed by and in Arif Hikmat and
  al-Mahmudiyyah libraries going through the
  manuscripts.
• He stayed in al-Madinah close to the Prophet's
  Mosque for about a year. He received permission
  to teach from many ulama'.

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Muhaddith of Ash-Sham

• He then went to Palestine, Jerusalem in the 5th
  decade of this century
• Then he went to Damascus where he was welcomed by
  its people, especially after the death of its
  Muhaddith Badr-ud-Din al-Hasaniyy. 

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Muhaddith of Ash-Sham

• He then lived in Jami-ul-Qatat, and his fame
  spread in the area.  Scholars and students of
  ash-Sham (area including Lebanon, Syria,
  Palestine, and Jordan) came seeking him, and he
  got to know some of its scholars.
• He was called the Successor of ash-Shaykh
  Badr-ud-Din al-Hasaniyy. 
• He was also known as the Muhaddith of ash-Sham
  countries.

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Loved and Praised

• A great number of the ulama' of ash-Sham praised
  him such as
• Shaykh Izz-ud-Din al-Khaznawiyy, ash-Shafiiyy,
  an-Naqshabandiyy from al-Jazirah in the north of
  Syria, ash-Shaykh Abdur-Razzaq al-Halabiyy, the
  Director of al-Masjidul-'Umawiyy in Damascus,
  ash-Shaykh Abu Sulayman az-Zabibiyy, ash-Shaykh
  Mulla Ramadan al-Butiyy, ash-Shaykh Abul-Yusr
  Abidin, the Mufti of Syria, ash-Shaykh
  Abdul-Karim ar-Rifaiyy, ash-Shaykh Naji Nur
  from Jordan, ash-Shaykh Said Tanatirah,
  ash-Shaykh Ahmad al-Husariyy, the Director of the
  Islamic school of Maarratun-Numan, ash-Shaykh
  Abdullah Siraj al-Halabiyy, ash-Shaykh Muhammad
  Murad al-Halabiyy, ash-Shaykh Suhayb ar-Rumiyy,
  the Amin of al-Fatwa in Halab, ash-Shaykh
  Abdul-Aziz Uyunus-Sud, the Head of the Qurra'
  of Hims, ash-Shaykh Abus-Suud al-Himsiyy,
  ash-Shaykh Fayiz ad-Dayrataniyy, the Shaykh of
  Damascus who knows the Seven Qira'at (ways of
  recitations of Qur'an), ash-Shaykh Abdul-Wahhab
  Dibs wa Zayt of Damascus, Dr. Halawaniyy, the
  Shaykh of reciters in Syria, ash-Shaykh Ahmad
  al-Harun of Damascus, the righteous waliyy,
  ash-Shaykh Tahir al-Kayyaliyy from Hims, and
  others, may Allah benefit us from them.

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Loved and Praised

• He was also praised by
• Shaykh Uthman Siraj-ud-Din, the descendant of
  ash-Shaykh Ala'-ud-Din, Shaykh of
  an-Naqshabandiyyah in his time and they had
  brotherly and scholarly correspondences between
  them.
• He was praised also by ash-Shaykh Abdul-Karim
  al-Bayyariyy, the teacher in Jami-il-Hadrah
  al-Kilaniyyah in Baghdad, ash-Shaykh Ahmad
  az-Zahid al-'Islambuliyy, ash-Shaykh Mahmud
  al-Hanafiyy, who is one of the famous and active
  Turkish shuyukh, ash-Shaykh Abdullah
  al-Ghammariyy, the Muhaddith of the Morrocan
  area, ash-Shaykh Habibur-Rahman al-'Azamiyy, the
  Muhaddith of the Indian Peninsula, whom he met
  with many times and stayed as his guest for some
  time.

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Rifaiy Qadiri Tariqah

• He took permission for at-Tariqah ar-Rifaiyyah
  from Shaykh Abdur-Rahman as-Sibsibiyy, and
  Shaykh Tahir al-Kayyaliyy,
• And he took the permission in at-Tariqah
  al-Qadiriyyah from ash-Shaykh Ahmad al-Irbiniyy,
  may Allah have mercy upon them.

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In Beirut

• Shaykh Abdullah came to Beirut in 1950 R.C. and
  he was the guest of famous Shuyukh like
• Shaykh, al-Qadi Muhyid-Din al-Ajuz and
  ash-Shaykh, al-Mustashar Muhammad ash-Sharif and
  ash-Shaykh Abdul-Wahhab al-Butariyy, the imam of
  Jami al-Basta al-Fawqa,
• Shaykh Ahmad Iskandaraniyy, the Imam and
  Mu'aththin in Jami Burj Abi Haydar and they
  learned and benefited from him.

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In Beirut

• Shaykh Abdullah also met with
• Shaykh Abdur-Rahman al-Majthub and ash-Shaykh
  Muhammad al-Butariyy, the Qadi of Beirut
  presently, and they benefited from him.
• He met with ash-Shaykh Mukhtar al-Alayiliyy, who
  was the Amin of al-Fatwa who acknowledged his
  honor and breadth of his knowledge, and prepared
  for his residence in Beirut to teach in different
  mosques.
• The Department of al-Fatwa paid the expenses of
  his residence during that period.  In 1969 R.C.,
  upon the request of the Director of al-'Azhar in
  Lebanon, he lectured in at-Tawhid to the students
  there.

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His Primary Goal

• Shaykh Abdullah's primary goal always was to
  spread the correct belief of Ahl-us-Sunnah
  wal-Jamaah, a task which has been occupying most
  of his time. 
• He fought the atheists and the people of al-bida
  (prohibited innovations) to extinguish their
  fitan (misguidings). 
• This did not leave much time for writing books,
  he left quite a few writings, however

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His Books

• 1. An explanation of Alfiyyat-ul-Iraqiyy in the
  Science of al-Hadith.
• 2. A poem in at-Tawhid (Islamic Belief) of about
  sixty lines.
• 3. As-Sirat-ul-Mustaqim in at-Tawhid, published.
• 4. Ad-Dalil-ul-Qawim alas-Sirat-il-Mustaqim in
  at-Tawhid, published.
• 5. Mukhtasaru Abdillah-il-Harariyy, al-Kafilu bi
  Ilm-id-Din-id-Daruriyy, published.
• 6. Bughyat-ut-Talib limarifat-il-Ilm-id-Diniyy-i
  l-Wajib, published.
• 7. At-Taaqqub-ul-Hathith ala man taana fima
  sahha min-al-Hadith, published. 
• In this book, ash Shaykh Abdullah refuted the
  claims of al-'Albaniyy against some Ahadith.  The
  Muhaddith of the Morrocan area, ash-Shaykh
  Abdullah al-Ghammariyy, said about the book it
  is a good and well written refutation.
• 8. Nusrat-ut-Taaqqub-il-Hathith ala man taana
  fima sahha min-al-Hadith, published.
• 9. Al-Mawlid-ush-Sharif, published.
• 10. Sharh-ul-Aqidat-in-Nasafiyyah.
• 11. Sharh-ul-Aqidat-it-Tahawiyyah.
• 12. Sharhu Alfiyyat-iz-Zubad  in the Shafiiyy
  Fiqh.
• 13. Sharhu Matni Abi Shuja  in the Shafiiyy
  Fiqh.
• 14. Sharh-us-Sirat-il-Mustaqim.
• 15. Sharhu Matn-il-Ashmawiyyah in the Malikiyy
  Fiqh.
• 16. Sharhu Mutammimat-il-'Ajurummiyyah in
  an-Nahw.
• 17. Sharh-ul-Bayquniyyah in the Science of
  al-Hadith.
• 18. Sarih-ul-Bayan fir-raddi ala man
  Khalaf-al-Qur'an, published.

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Taqwa Zuhd

• Shaykh Abdullah's al-Harariyy is very pious,
  humble, Zahid, and worshipful Muslim. He spends
  his time teaching al-Ilm and performing Dhikr at
  the same time.
• He has a good and pure heart.  He does not waste
  a moment without teaching, performing Dhikr,
  reciting, admonishing, or guiding. 
• He has the correct belief in Allah and is holding
  on to al-Qur'an and as-Sunnah.  He has a good
  memory and powerful and brilliant proofs. 

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Lifelong Dawah

• He was known for his high effort in bidding
  al-maruf and forbidding al-munkar (ordering with
  obedience and prohibiting the disobedience) until
  the people of misguidance and prohibited
  innovations feared and envied him. 
• This did not lessen his efforts to refute them,
  because Allah supports and defends the people who
  believe in Him. He served Islam until death.

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His Students

• Shaykh Abdullah emphasizes the rich and moderate
  face of Islamthat of justice, truth,
  trustworthiness, knowledge, generosity, manners,
  excellence, and sound intellect.
• His students have spread through more than forty
  (40) countries, across six (6) continents.
• He continues to support the Muslims in acquiring
  the knowledge and in fighting the deviant
  factions who attempt to spread misguidance in the
  name of Islam.

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The AICP

• The Association of Islamic Charitable Projects
  (A.I.C.P) was established the year 1930.
• AICP was led by Sheikh Mustafa Ghalayini, Hajj
  Hussein al-Uwainiy and Sheikh Ahmad al-Ajooz
  who then handed its leadership to the Students of
  Sheikh Abdullah al-Harariy.
• The Islamic institutions rapidly trusted the
  A.I.C.P worldwide and established connections
  with it. AICP signed an Agreement of Cooperation
  with al-Azhar in Egypt in November 17th 1999.

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AICP Leaders

• Sheikh Nizar al-Halabiy al-Azhariy (1952) took
  its leadership in 1983. He was later assassinated
  by terrorists on August of 1995. Its Leadership
  was then handed to Dr. Sheikh Hussam Qaraqirah.

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The Belief of Millions

• AICP holds and defends the creed of millions of
  Muslims throughout the world.
• AICP has as guides the Quran and the Sunnah of
  Prophet Muhammad and the path of the Islamic
  scholars like Imam Ash-Shafiiyy, Imam Malik,
  Imam Ahmad and Imam Abu-Hanifah.
• Unlike the followers of Sayyid Qutub who deviated
  from the right path by following an erroneous
  idea that sprung fifty years ago, and unlike the
  followers of Muhammad ibn adbil-Wahhab who
  deviated from the right path by following an
  erroneous idea that sprung two hundred years ago,
  unlike them AICP follows the right path of the
  prophet, his companions and their followers.

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AICP Centers

• Here is a list of the Association of Islamic
  Charitable Projects centers Worldwide
• United States of America
• Pennsylvania 4431 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA
  19104 [phone] (Office)
• California 1136 N. Brookhurst Street, Anaheim, CA
  92801 [phone] (Office)
• Massachusetts 41 Marble Street, Revere, MA 02151
  [phone] Fax [phone]
• Michigan 5715 N Inkster Road, Garden City, MI
  48135 [phone] Fax [phone]
• Florida 2820 Griffin Rd, Fort Lauderdale, FL
  33312 [phone]
• Tennessee 4609 Tchulahoma Rd, Memphis, TN 38118
  Tel/Fax [phone]
• Texas 5645 Hillcroft Street, Suite 305-306,
  Houston, TX 77036 Tel/Fax [phone]
• Canada
• Alberta Calgary Tel [phone] Fax (403)
  248-7550
• British Columbia 7 Sixth Street, New Westminster,
  BC V3L2Y7 [phone]
• Ontario 847 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa, Ontario
  K1K 4Y2 Tel [phone]
• Quebec 6691 Park Avenue, Montreal, Quebec, H4V4J1
  [phone] (Office)
• Europe 
• Switzerland
• Centre islamique de Lausanne, 10, place de la
  Gare, 1003 Lausanne Suisse Tél. [phone]
  79 19 Fax [phone]
• Islamisches Zentrum Zürich Milit?rstr.
  52/Eisgasse 6, 8004 Zürich Tel. [phone]
  Fax.[phone]

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Sheikh Abdullahs Death

• Sheikh Abdullah departed this life on Tuesday the
  2nd of Ramadan 1429H September 2, 2008. His
  Knowledge remains benefiting millions.

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The End
We ask Allah to Have Mercy upon this great
Scholar and Defender of Islam. And to gather us
with him in Paradise, with the Prophet (peace be
upon him), His family and His companions. And to
enable us to learn, teach, and serve al-Islam
. Ameen.
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