Ba 'Alawi sada

This article is about the family. For the Ba'Alawi sufi order, see Ba'Alawi tariqa.

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 region	Brunei, Yemen, United Arab Emirates, India, Ethiopia, Somalia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Comoros, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Place of origin	Hadhramaut
Members	Clan: 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 families	al-Rayyan, Thangal, Nuwaythi, Ba Mashkoor, Ba Rumaidaan, Ba Hamaam, al-Amoodi, Ba Naeemi, Ba Hammudi
Traditions	Ba '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

Further information: List of Ba'alawi 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 ʻaqīl باعقيل Bā ʻabūd باعبود Bār, al- البار Bā Surrah باصره Bayḍ, al- البيض Balfaqīh بلفقيه Fadʻaq فدعق Ḥabshī, al- الحبشي Ḥaddād, al- الحدّاد Haddār, al- الهدار Hādī, al- الهادي Ḥāmid, al- الحامد

The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.) Latin Arabic Jamalullaīl جمل الليل Jufrī, al- الجفري Junaīd, al- الجنيد Kāf, al- الكاف Khanīmān خنيمان Maṣhoor, al- المشهور Muḥdhār, al- المحضار Musāwá, al- المساوى Mushayyakh, al- آل مشيَّخ Muṭahar مطهر Saqqāf, al- السقاف Shihāb Uddīn, al- آل شهاب الدين Shāṭirī, al- الشاطري Shāīkh ābū Bakr, al- آل الشيخ أبو بكر Sumaith, bin بن سميط Yaḥyá, bin ابن يحيى

The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.) Latin Arabic Aʻyun, al- الأعين Aẓamāt Khān عظمات خان Bā Hāshim, al- باهاشم Bā Rūm, al- الباروم Bā Sakūt, al- البا سكوتا Bā Hāroon Jamalullaīl باهارون جمل الليل Bā Raqbah بارقبة Bin Hāroon بن هارون Bin Hāshim بن هاشم Bin Murshed بن مرشد Bin Shahel, al- آل بن سهل Bin Jindan بن جندان Hindūān, al- الهندوان Ḥiyyed, al- الحييد Ibrāhīm, al- الإبراهيم Jadīd جديد Khirid, al- الخرد Nadhiry, al ال النضيري

The Family Names of Ba'Alawi (cont.) Latin Arabic ʻAdanī, al- العدنى Bā ʻAlawī باعلوي Bā Faraj بافرج Bā Nahsan بانحسن Bā Shaibān باشيبان Ba ʻUmar باعمر Abū Fuṭaīm ابو فطيم Madaīḥij, al- المديحج Mawlá Kháilah مولى خيلة Mawlá Dawīlah مولى 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

• Alavi (surname)
• Al-Rabithah al-Alawiyyah
• Alids
• Hadhrami people
• Sayyid
• Sharif

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 . 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.
• 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.

External links

• Ba'alawi.com Ba'alawi.com | The Definitive Resource for Islam and the Alawiyyen Ancestry.
• Saada Ba Alawi of East Africa Facebook page