Obituary: Habib Hamid al-Kaf
Salam The world of Sunni Islam earlier on today lost one of its great hidden gems from the sacred city of Mecca, namely the Ba Alawi Sayyid famed for his high isnad and hadith scholarship: Habib Hamid bin Alawi bin…
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Shaykh Abd al-Rahman al-Mulla
God have mercy on Sh Abd al-Rahman al-Mulla, (pictured here in the centre in a blue garment) who passed away on this day (27 Shawwal) in 2001 aged 98 years old. I believe there is a biography of his on…
Jaliyat al-Kadr Author
Salam We were honoured to host Shaykh Khalid Turkestani from Mecca in the last few days of Ramadan. An event he attended was a reading of the Jaliyat al-Kadr poem which he narrates from his teachers back to the author.…