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MANBA‘ AL-IMDĀD: A FOUNTAIN OF HELP
A Compendium of the talks of:
AL-HABĪB AHMAD MASH-HŪR BIN TĀHĀ AL-HADDĀD
Rady Allāhu ‘Anhu
Compiled by his grandson:
As-Sayyid Muhammad bin Mustafā Bū Numay
Rahmatullāhi ‘alayh
DARS 54: THE CONTINUOUS CHAIN OF AUTHORITIES
LINKING THE BA ‘ALAWI SAADAAT TO THE PROPHET
(Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam)
In the words of my master, my grandfather, may Allah spread his benefit, in Mambrui after the audition on 17 Sha‘ban 1407 A.H. He said, may Allah be pleased with him, addressing the gathering.
May Allah bless you, and may He cool our eyes with you, and cool the eye of Islam with you, and cool the eye of knowledge with you, and cool the eye of the pious predecessors with you, and cool the eye of your Prophet with you. All praise of for Allah, for the Garden from the Gardens of Paradise, that is blessed with the remembrance of Sayyid, son of Adnan (Prophet Muhammad, Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam); beautified by excellent, exquisite poems which remind us of the pious predecessors and establish a strong connection with them: A continuous chain from one descendent of the Prophet to another, from one scholar to another scholar, from a pious person to a pious person to the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam). This is the religion. This is the knowledge. This is the clear success that binds you with the pious predecessors.
And our connection follows to our Habib Salih bin ‘Alawi Jamalillayl, and al-Habib ‘AbdAllah al-Biedh, and al-Habib ‘Ali al-Habashi. And before them, like al-Imam al-Habib ‘AbdAllah al-Haddad. And before them, al-Habib ‘Umar al-‘Attas. And before them, al-Habib ‘AbdAllah al-‘Aydarus and his father. And before them, al-Habib ‘Abdur-Rahman as-Saqqaf and his father al-Habib Muhammad bin ‘Ali Sahib ad-Dawilah. And before them, ash-Shaykh ‘AbdAllah Ba ‘Alawi. And before them, Sayyidina al-Faqih al-Muqaddam Muhammad bin ‘Ali Ba ‘Alawi. And before them, like Sayyidina ‘Ali bin ‘Alawi Khali‘ Qassam who heard the reply of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and his Family and grant him peace, when he greeted him with Salam. And before them, to ‘Alawi bin ‘Ubaydillah bin Ahmad bin ‘Isa al-Muhajir. All of them are in this spiritual path. And there is no interruption between them to separate them. All of them, as well as those with them and those who followed them, are on the spiritual path of Muhammad bin ‘Abdillah (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam),
And in the same way, they rise up with them to Sayyidina ‘Isa Abi’l Muhajir Ilallah, to Sayyidina Muhammad an-Naqib, to Sayyidina ‘Ali al-‘Uraydi who is well known in Madina even now. And al-‘Uraydi in the same way meets with his father Ja‘far as-Sadiq, and Ja‘far as-Sadiq meets with his father Muhammad al-Baqir, and Muhammad al-Baqir meets with his father ‘Ali Zayn ul-‘Abidin wa Zayn us-Sajidin, and ‘Ali Zayn ul-‘Abidin meets with his father al-Husayn, and al-Husayn bin ‘Ali and his brother al-Hasan meet with their father Sayyidina ‘Ali bin Abi Talib, may Allah be pleased with him, the brother of Rasulullah (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam). And Sayyidina ‘Ali bin Abi Talib meets with his brother Sayyidina Rasulullah (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam). And Rasulullah is Rasulullah who is connected with the fountain of Divine Revelation.
And he does not speak by his own desire. It is only the Revelation that is revealed (to him). (53:3-4)
This is our spiritual path.
So if someone spurious comes to you from the land or from the sea, or from up or from below, or from Najd and says: “I, I”. So, say to him, “Give me those (the names) of your forefathers. Do you have an unbroken chain of authorities like these, one to another to the Prophet (Sallallahu ‘alayhi wa Sallam)?” He will tell you, “Yes, I narrate from my shaykh so and so, and my shaykh so and so”, and it is finished. After that is Iblis who is his foundation. They did not get knowledge from the scholars. They did not get knowledge from the Ahl al-Bayt (Family of the Prophet). They did not get knowledge from the awliya’ (Friends of Allah, sufi masters) and the pious. So for this reason they come and they talk without clarity and without excellence.
All praise is for Allah for this, our attribute; and this, our spiritual path. May Allah, the Exalted, be pleased with, and support our Habib Salih bin ‘Alawi Jamalillayl, whose soul I know is present now and the soul of al-Imam al-Haddad. Allah willing, many souls are present with us.
Then my master, my grandfather wept. Then he made a long supplication and completed with the recitation of al-Fatiha.