Ba 'Alawi sada

The Ba 'Alawi sadah or Sadah Ba 'Alawi (Arabic: السادة آل باعلوي, romanized: al-sādatu al-bā'alawiy) are a group of Hadhrami Sayyid families and social group originating in Hadhramaut in the southwest corner of the Arabian Peninsula. They trace their lineage to Sayyid al-Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir bin Isa al-Rumi born in 873 (260H), who emigrated from Basra to Hadhramaut[1] in 931 (320H) to avoid sectarian violence, including the invasion of the Qaramite forces into the Abbasid Caliphate.

Ba 'Alawi
Ba 'Alawi Sada people of Indonesia
Current regionBrunei, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Comoros, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Place of originHadhramaut
MembersClan: al-Mushayyakh, al-Aydarusi, al-Muhdar, al-Attas, al-Basakut, al-Saqqaf, al-Shahab, al-Haddad, al-Jamalullail, al-Habshi, al-Hamid, al-Khirid, al-Shaykh Abu Bakr, Ba Faqih, Banahsan, al-Qadri, al-Haddar, al-Jufri and others
Connected familiesal-Rayyan, Thangal, Nuwaythi, Ba Mashkoor, Ba Rumaidaan, Ba Hamaam, al-Amoodi, Ba Naeemi, Ba Hammudi
TraditionsBa 'Alawiyya

The origin

The word Sadah or Sadat (Arabic: سادة) is a plural form of word Arabic: سيد (Sayyid), while the word Ba 'Alawi or Bani 'Alawi means descendants of Alawi (Bā is a Hadhramaut dialect form of Bani). In sum, Ba'alawi are Sayyid people who have a blood descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through Alawi ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Ahmad al-Muhajir. Meanwhile, Alawiyyin (Arabic: العلويّن; al-`alawiyyin) Sayyid term is used to describe descendants of Ali bin Abi Talib from Husayn ibn Ali (Sayyids) and Hasan ibn Ali (Sharifs). All people of Ba 'Alawi are Alawiyyin Sayyids through Husayn ibn Ali, but not all people of Alawiyyin family are of Ba 'Alawi.

The Ba 'Alawi tariqa is a Sufi order founded by one of Ahmad al-Muhajir's descendant, Muhammad al-Faqih al-Muqaddam and named after and closely tied to the Ba 'Alawi family.

Imam al-Muhajir's grandson Alawi was the first Sayyid to be born in Hadhramaut, and the only one of Imam al-Muhajir's descendants to produce a continued line; the lineages of Imam al-Muhajir's other grandsons, Basri and Jadid, were cut off after several generations. Accordingly, Imam Al-Muhajir's descendants in Hadhramaut hold the name Bā 'Alawi ("descendants of Alawi").

The Ba 'Alawi Sadah have since been living in Hadhramaut in Southern Yemen, maintaining the Sunni Creed in the fiqh school of Shafi'i. In the beginning, a descendant of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir who became scholar in Islamic studies was called Imam, then Sheikh, but later called Habib.

It was only since 1700 AD they began to migrate[2] in large numbers out of Hadhramaut across all over the globe, often to practice da'wah (Islamic missionary work).[3] Their travels had also brought them to the Southeast Asia. These hadhrami immigrants blended with their local societies unusual in the history of diasporas. For example, the House of Jamalullail of Perlis is descended from the Ba 'Alawi. Habib Salih of Lamu, Kenya was also descended from the Ba 'Alawi. In Indonesia, quite a few of these migrants married local women or men, sometimes nobility or even royal families, and their descendants then became sultans or kings, such as in Sultanate of Pontianak or in Sultanate of Siak Indrapura.[4]

People

List of Families

Some of the family names are as follows:[5][6]

The Family Names of Ba'Alawi
Latin Arabic
Aṭṭās, al-العطّاس
Aỳdarūs, al-العيدروس
ʻAydīd, al-آل عيديد
Bā ʻaqīlباعقيل
Bā ʻabūdباعبود
Bār, al-البار
Bā Surrahباصره
Bayḍ, al-البيض
Balfaqīhبلفقيه
Fadʻaqفدعق
Ḥabshī, al-الحبشي
Ḥaddād, al-الحدّاد
Haddār, al-الهدار
Hādī, al-الهادي
Ḥāmid, al-الحامد
The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.)
Latin Arabic
Jamalullaīlجمل الليل
Jufrī, al-الجفري
Junaīd, al-الجنيد
Kāf, al-الكاف
Khanīmānخنيمان
Maṣhoor, al-المشهور
Muḥdhār, al-المحضار
Musāwá, al-المساوى
Mushayyakh, al-آل مشيَّخ
Muṭaharمطهر
Saqqāf, al-السقاف
Shihāb Uddīn, al-آل شهاب الدين
Shāṭirī, al-الشاطري
Shāīkh ābū Bakr, al-آل الشيخ أبو بكر
Sumaith, binبن سميط
Yaḥyá, binابن يحيى
The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.)
Latin Arabic
Aʻyun, al-الأعين
Aẓamāt Khānعظمات خان
Bā Hāshim, al-باهاشم
Bā Rūm, al-الباروم
Bā Sakūt, al-البا سكوتا
Bā Hāroon Jamalullaīlباهارون جمل الليل
Bā Raqbahبارقبة
Bin Hāroonبن هارون
Bin Hāshimبن هاشم
Bin Murshedبن مرشد
Bin Shahel, al-آل بن سهل
Bin Jindanبن جندان
Hindūān, al-الهندوان
Ḥiyyed, al-الحييد
Ibrāhīm, al-الإبراهيم
Jadīdجديد
Khirid, al-الخرد
Nadhiry, alال النضيري
The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.)
Latin Arabic
ʻAdanī, al-العدنى
Bā ʻAlawīباعلوي
Bā Farajبافرج
Bā Nahsanبانحسن
Bā Shaibānباشيبان
Ba ʻUmarباعمر
Abū Fuṭaīmابو فطيم
Madaīḥij, al-المديحج
Mawlá Kháilahمولى خيلة
Mawlá Dawīlahمولى الدويلة
Munawwar, al-المنور
Qadrī, al-القدرى
Ṣāfiy, al-الصافي
Ṣāfiy al-Jufrī, al-الصافى الجفرى
Ṣāfiy Al-Saqqāf, al-الصافى السقاف
Zāhir, al-الزاهر

See also

References

  1. Anne K. Bang, Sufis and Scholars of the Sea: Family Networks in East Africa, 1860–1925, Routledge, 2003, pg 12
  2. img47.imageshack.us https://web.archive.org/web/20110719115211/http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/6217/peta20hijrah20bani20alari0.png. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. Ibrahim, Ahmad; Sharon Siddique; Yasmin Hussain, eds. (December 31, 1985). Readings on Islam in Southeast Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. p. 407. ISBN 978-9971-988-08-1.
  4. Ulrike Freitag; William G. Clarence-Smith, eds. (1997). Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s to 1960s. Vol. 57 (illustrated ed.). BRILL. p. 9. ISBN 978-90-04-10771-7.
  5. "أنسآب السادة العلويين آل باعلوي". Shabwaah Press. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  6. "Gelar Keluarga Alawiyyin Habaib" (in Indonesian). Retrieved September 11, 2014.

Further reading

  • Dostal, Walter (22 April 2005). The Saints of Hadramawt. ISBN 9781850436348..
  • Dostal, Walter; Wolfgang Kraus, eds. (2005). Shattering Tradition: Custom, Law and the Individual in the Muslim Mediterranean (print). New York: I.B. Tauris. pp. 233–253. ISBN 9781850436348.
  • Manger, Leif, O (2010). The Hadrami Diaspora: Community-Building on the Indian Ocean Rim. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-742-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Azra, Azyumardi (1994). The transmission of Islamic reformism to Indonesia : networks of Middle Eastern and Malay-Indonesian 'Ulama' in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Ph.D dissertation, 1992). Ann Arbor, Mich: U.M.I.
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