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The Ba 'Alawi sada (), or the House of Ba 'Alawi (), is a group of Hadhrami
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families and social group originating in
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in the southwest corner of the
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. They trace their lineage to
Ahmad al-Muhajir Ahmad al-Muhajir (, ', ; 260-345 Hijri year, AH or c. 873-956 Common Era, CE), also known as al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā, was an Islamic scholar and the founder of Ba 'Alawi sada group which is instrumental in spreading Islam to India, Southeast ...
who was born in 873 (260H). Ahmad al-Muhajir emigrated emigrated from
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to
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in 931 (318H) to avoid sectarian violence, including the invasion of the Qaramite forces into the
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. Great classical scholars of Islam such as Ibn Hajar al-Haitami, Yusuf bin Ismail Al-Nabhani and Murtada Al Zabidi have validated the genealogy of the Ba Alawi Sada. They follow the Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama'ah methodology on the
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school in
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, and the
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school in faith, and they have their own way of seeking God, which is the ''Al-Baalawi Tariqah'', one of the Sufi orders spread in the Islamic world. The Ba 'Alawis or Bani 'Alawi are known for preaching Islam. The founder of their order was Muhammad bin Ali Baalawi, known as "Al-Faqih Al-Muqaddam", who, during his time,
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families in Hadhramaut were seen as a threat by other tribes. Due to regional instability, it was normal during his study that Muhammad bin Ali put a sword on his lap for protection. Muhammad grew tired of the tension and bloodshed in the ranks of the believers, thus symbolically broke his sword and announced that his Tariqa and the way of Alawi Sayyids are non-violence and renounced any tariqa that uses violence. It is believed the dissemination of Islam in Southeast Asia was carried out by traders and
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of Hadhramaut who transited in India since 15th century as the Sufism, their practices and its influences can be traced strongly in the region. They were at the top of the social ladder in Hadhramaut because of their esteemed lineage, significant social and financial contributions, and their influence, spreading the principles of Islam to the people, establishing mosques and religious schools, and advancing knowledge through intellectual centers, which solidified their prominent position in the society.


Etymology

The origin of the name Ba 'Alawi goes back to one of their ancestors, ''Alawi bin Ubaidillah bin Ahmad al-Muhajir'', the first of al-Muhajir's descendants to be named 'Alawi. The use of the name ''Ba 'Alawi'' came after they were influenced by the
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in their way of referring to their fathers, and the meaning of (Ba) among the Hadharem is "children of". However, the Ba 'Alawis do not use these two surnames except in biographies and genealogies, and a person is usually attributed to his tribe, but there are some individuals from Bani Alawi who are still called Ba 'Alawi because they do not belong to any of the known tribes. The word ''Sadah'' or ''Sadat'' () is a plural form of word ''
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'' (), while the word Ba 'Alawi or ''Bani 'Alawi'' means ''descendants of Alawi''. In sum, Ba'alawi are Sayyids who have a blood descendant of the Islamic prophet
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through Alawi ibn Ubayd Allah ibn
Ahmad al-Muhajir Ahmad al-Muhajir (, ', ; 260-345 Hijri year, AH or c. 873-956 Common Era, CE), also known as al-Imām Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā, was an Islamic scholar and the founder of Ba 'Alawi sada group which is instrumental in spreading Islam to India, Southeast ...
. Meanwhile,
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(; ), a Sayyid term that is used to describe descendants of Ali bin Abi Talib from
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(
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) and
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(
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s). All people of Ba 'Alawi are
Alawiyyin Alawi (), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alvi, Alawid, or Alawite (), is an adjective denoting "of or related to Ali", the Prophet Muhammad's cousin. As a proper noun it is used by individuals, dynasties, places, and religious sects ...
Sayyids through
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, but not all people of
Alawiyyin Alawi (), also transliterated as Alevi, Alevi, Alavi, Alvi, Alawid, or Alawite (), is an adjective denoting "of or related to Ali", the Prophet Muhammad's cousin. As a proper noun it is used by individuals, dynasties, places, and religious sects ...
family are of Ba 'Alawi. In certain contexts, the term ''ʿAlawiyyīn'' is used in a more circumscribed manner by Ba 'Alawis to refer specifically to the descendants of ʿAlawī ibn ʿUbaydillāh ibn Aḥmad al-Muhājir.


Origin

Imam al-Muhajir's grandson Alawi was the first
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to be born in Hadhramaut, and the only one of Imam al-Muhajir's descendants to produce a continued line in Hadhramaut; The lines of his other grandsons—Basri (originally named Ismāʿīl) and Jadīd—ceased after a few generations. Accordingly, Imam Al-Muhajir's descendants in Hadhramaut hold the name ''B''ā '''Alawi'' or ''Bani 'Alawi'' ("descendants of Alawi"). Ahmad Al-Muhajir's descendants continued to move through the valley's villages, settling in the village of Sumal for a time before moving to the village of Bayt Jubair. In 521 AH, Ali bin Alawi, known as "Khali' Qasam," ''a descendant of the'' ''Al-Muhajir'', moved to the city of Tarim and made it his home for himself and his children. Since then, Tarim has become the headquarters of the Bani Alawi to this day. The Ba 'Alawi Sadah have since been living in Hadhramaut in Southern Yemen, maintaining the Sunni Creed in the
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school of
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. In the beginning, a descendant of Imam Ahmad al-Muhajir who became scholar in Islamic studies was called
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, then
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, but later called
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. The first person from the Bā ʿAlawī clan to be called ''Habib'' was Al-Ḥabīb ʿUmar bin ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-ʿAṭṭās (d. 1072 AH / 1661 CE). It was only since 1700 AD they began to migrate in large numbers out of Hadhramaut across all over the globe, often to practice
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(Islamic missionary work). Their travels had also brought them to the
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. These Hadhrami immigrants blended with their local societies unusual in the history of diasporas. For example, the House of Jamalullail of
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is descended from the Ba 'Alawi.
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of
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, 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
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s or kings, such as in
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or in Sultanate of Siak Indrapura. The Sultanates of Sulu, Lanao, and Maguindanao as well trace their origins to Ba Alawi Sada. These Sultanates follow the
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school of jurisprudence.


Genealogy

According to Ja'far al-Labani, a historian from
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: "Most of the Sayyids living in
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and
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are the Ba'alawis, whose memory spread in Hadhramaut, and then they came from Hadhramaut to Mecca, Medina and other countries of Allah, so these gentlemen are the ones who are handed over to preserve their genealogy, and they are known to the captain of the Sayyids in Mecca and Medina, and the captain of the Sayyids is none other than them, and their births are controlled wherever they are, and their names are enumerated, and their genealogy is preserved in the well-known way. Their genealogies are preserved in the manner known to them, in order to divide their revenues from endowments and the like, and whoever else belongs to the pure lineage, whether Egyptian, Levantine, Roman, or Iraqi, although there are many of them, they are not recognized because their genealogies are not set on a sound basis by the public, but some of them may have evidence that gives some doubt about the truth of their claim." This is in addition to the Sharifs of Mecca from the Qatadi clan, who have always resided in the Hejaz and never migrated from the region. Of course, as all genealogists know, almost none of our conclusions about ancestry/descendancy are 100% proven, especially when they are based at least in part on oral and paper records.


Preserving their genealogy


Books

The genealogies of the Ba Alawis were preserved in a large genealogy ledger located in fifteen volumes, compiled by the famous genealogist Abd al-Rahman al-Mashhūr, author of "Shams al-Dhahira"(1340 Hijri), which was the approved tree, and is still recorded to this day in the Hejaz, Yemen, Southeast Asian countries and East Africa. Its original version was preserved in Tarim in Hadhramaut, and was adopted by the Al-Rabithah Al-Alawiyah (The Association of Alawiyyin) in
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,
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. There is a well-known genealogy ledger reference by ''al-Musnid 'Idrus ibn 'Umar al-Habshi'', and another genealogy ledger reference that was preserved in Mecca and was transcribed by ''al-Qadi Abu Bakr ibn Ahmad ibn Husayn al-Habshi''. In addition to these general genealogical trees, there were also specific genealogical trees for many tribes of Bani Alawi, in which they record their genealogy. Some of notable works document their genealogy, including: * "Al-Jawahir al-Saniyya fi al-'Itrat al-Husayniyya" by 'Ali bin Abi Bakr al-Sakran * "Al-Barqah Al-Mushiqah fi dhikr al-Libaas al-Aniiqah" by 'Ali bin Abi Bakr al-Sakran * "Ghurar al-Baha' al-Dhawi fi Manaqib Bani Jadid, Bani Basri, and Bani Alawi" by Muhammad bin Ali bin Alawi Khird * "Al- Shajara an-Nabawiya fi tahqiq ansab al-Sadah Al-Alawiyah by Abdullah bin Sheikh al-'Aydarus * "Al-Mashra' al-Rawi" by Muhammad bin Abi Bakr al-Shilli " * "Al 'Iqd an-Nabawi wa al-Sirr al-Mustafawi" by Shaykh bin Abdullah al-'Aydarus * "The Service of the Clan in Summarizing, Refining and Supplementing Shams al-Dhahira (Khidmat al- 'Ashirah) " by Ahmad bin Abdullah al-Saqqaf * "Min A'qaab al-Bidh'ah al-Muhammadiyyah al-Thahirah" by Alawi bin Muhammad Bilfaqih * "Al-Mu'jam al-Latif in the Reasons for Surnames and Nicknames in the Honorable Lineage of Bani Alawi" by Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Shatiri * "Al-Shajara al-Zakiyyah in the Genealogy and Biography of the Household of the Prophet" by Sayyid Yusuf bin Abdullah Jamal al-Layl * "Al-Rawdh al-Jali in the Genealogy of Bani Alawi" by Murtada al-Zabidi al-Husseini * "Shams al-Dhahira fi nasab ahl al-bait min Bani Alawi" by Abdurrahman bin Muhammad Al Mash-hoor


Lineage

After the descendants of Ahmad bin Isa al-Muhajir settled in Tarim, some governors asked them to prove their lineage to confirm what they claimed, and that this should be done by a judicial ruling, and it was said that Tarim had three hundred
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s at that time, so Ali bin Muhammad bin Jadid, who died in 620 AH, traveled to Iraq and proved the lineage to the judges there and witnessed it. Then these witnesses met the Hadhramaut pilgrims in Mecca and testified to them. When these Hadhrami pilgrims came to Hadhramaut and testified to the proof, the people recognized their lineage, and the sheikhs and scholars unanimously agreed on this. When Ahmad al-Muhajir arrived in Hadhramaut, he still had family and relatives in Basra. His son Muhammad remained in Basra to manage their property, along with his other sons, Ali and Hussein. His grandson, Jadid bin 'Ubaydillah (his diminutive real name of Abdullah) went to see those properties and visit relatives. Al-Muhajir's children and grandchildren invested in Hadhramaut for many years from the proceeds of their money in Iraq. They maintained contact with their ancestral homeland and cousins for a few generations, receiving news and stories that kept their heritage and history alive.


Questioning their lineage

Centuries later, some questioned their lineage, citing a genealogy book published in the 20th century attributed to Al-Fakhr al-Razi. This book did not mention a son named 'Ubaydillah for Ahmad bin Isa, recording only three sons: Muhammad, Ali, and Hussein.


= DNA analysis

= In 2000,
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was established and initiated a global project to identify human origins through DNA analysis with the aim of reconnecting the Jewish diaspora around the world. The company classified the results of the analysis samples sent to it into different genetic lines based on the male (Y) chromosome and by comparison with other samples that had been examined and classified. When some members of the Ba Alawi performed this genetic analysis, some of their results revealed the haplogroup G lineage, which is predominantly found in the
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region. A few doubt that their lineage to the Prophet's Household is authentic, claiming that the lineage in which Arabs predominate is the haplogroup J1 lineage. However, this opinion is contested as there is no evidence to support the DNA patterns of the true descendants of Prophet Muhammad. Numerous other prominent lineages claiming descent from the Prophet Muḥammad—such as the Idrissids, Jaylanis, Rifais,
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s, Naqvis and others, also exhibit similar genealogical discrepancies.


Scholars who proved their lineage

According to historical sources, many genealogists and historians, such as: Ibn Tabataba, Baha al-Din al-Janadi, Ibn Inabah, Muhammad al-Kadhim Al-Yamani, Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Amid al-Din al-Najafi, Siraj al-Din al-Rifai, Shams al-Din al-Sakhawi,
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, Ibn Shadqam, Al-Muhibbi,
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, the family lineage is connected to
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. Some authoritative Muslim scholars such as former Mufti of Egypt Shaikh Ali Jum'ah, Sheikh Usamah Al-Azhari of Al-Azhar University in Egypt, Iranian Ayatollah Sayyid Mahdi Rajai, Muhammad Said Ramadhan Al-Bouti, Saudi Arabian genealogists Sharif Ibrahim bin Manshur ِAl-Hashimi Al-Amir and Sharif Anas bin Ya'qub Al-Kutbi, have asserted their opinion that Ba 'Alawi sada family lineage is connected to
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.


People


List of families

Some of the family names are as follows:


See also

* Alavi (surname) *
Al-Rabithah al-Alawiyyah Rabithah Alawiyah (; lit. ''The Association of Alavi (surname), Alawiyyin '' or'' Alawiyyin League'') is an Indonesian Islamic organization engaged in social movements. In general, the organization is an exclusive association of Hadhrami people, ...
*
Alids The Alids are those who claim descent from Ali ibn Abi Talib (; 600–661 CE), the fourth Rashidun caliph () and the first imam in Shia Islam. Ali was also the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The main branches are th ...
*
Hadhrami people The Hadharem (; singular: Hadhrami, ) are an Arabs, Arabic-speaking ethnographic group indigenous to the Hadhramaut region in the Arabian Peninsula, which is part of modern-day Yemen. The spoken language of the Hadharem is Hadhrami Arabic. Among ...
*
Sayyid ''Sayyid'' is an honorific title of Hasanid and Husaynid lineage, recognized as descendants of the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his daughter Fatima and Ali's sons Hasan ibn Ali, Hasan and Husayn ibn Ali, Husayn. The title may also refer ...
*
Sharif Sharīf or Sherif (, 'noble', 'highborn'), also spelled shareef, feminine sharīfa (), plural ashrāf (), shurafāʾ (), or (in the Maghreb) shurfāʾ, is a title used to designate a person descended, or claiming to be descended, from the fami ...


References


Further reading

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External links


Ba'alawi.com
- The Definitive Resource for Islam and the Alawiyyen Ancestry.
Saada Ba Alawi of East Africa Facebook page
{{Authority control Hadhrami people Hashemite people Society of Yemen Family of Muhammad Ba' Alawi Tribe