Draft:Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed
| Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed | |
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| Name | Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed |
| Other Names | Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed |
| Personal Details | |
| Birth Place | Hadramaut, Yemen |
| Brith Date | 1320 AH (1903 CE) |
| Death Place | Hadramaut, Yemen |
| Death Date | 1387 AH (1967 CE) |
| Teachers | Abd al-Qadir Bahamid
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| Students | Abd al-Qadir al-Sabban
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| Religion | Islam |
Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed (1320 – 1387 AH) was a littérateur, poet, historian, and jurist from Hadramaut. He was known as the "Poet of Al-Ahqaf"[1]. He has many ghazal poems in both Classical Arabic and vernacular, and articles in Yemeni and Arab newspapers. He represented the country in many political events, including the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Jeddah[2].
Lineage
Saleh bin Ali bin Saleh bin Ahmad bin Saleh bin Ahmad bin Eidrous bin Salem bin Omar bin al-Hamed bin Sheikh Abu Bakr bin Salem bin Abdullah bin Abd al-Rahman bin Abdullah bin Abd al-Rahman al-Saqaf bin Muhammad Mula al-Dawila bin Ali bin Alawi al-Ghayour bin al-Faqih al-Muqaddam Muhammad bin Ali bin Muhammad Sahib Mirbat bin Ali Khali' Qasam bin Alawi bin Muhammad bin Alawi bin Ubaydallah bin Ahmad al-Muhajir bin Isa bin Muhammad al-Naqib bin Ali al-Uraydi bin Ja'far al-Sadiq (peace be upon him) bin Muhammad al-Baqir (peace be upon him) bin Ali Zayn al-Abidin (peace be upon him) bin al-Husayn (peace be upon him) bin Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him), and Imam Ali, the husband of Fatimah (peace be upon her) daughter of Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny) is [3].
He is the thirty-fifth grandson of the Messenger of God Muhammad (peace be upon him and his progeny).
Birth and Upbringing
He was born in the year 1320 AH / 1903 CE in Sayyun in Hadramaut province. He grew up there and learned the preliminary sciences and the Quran there. Then, with a group of his classmates and friends such as: Ali Ahmad Bakathir, Muhammad bin Sheikh al-Masawi, Eidrous bin Salem al-Soum and Mustafa bin Salem al-Saqaf, he benefited from the lessons of teachers. His father encouraged him to study and sit at the lessons of scholars and opened the doors of knowledge in all its forms, to the extent that he created a large library for him at home that was full of manuscripts and publications in the fields of literature, religion, sociology, politics, history and other sciences[4]. He migrated to Indonesia and Singapore from his childhood and constantly travelled between them, and also visited Egypt in 1953 CE and met with poets there. He was a friend of the artist Sheikh al-Bar, for whom he composed and recited poems, and accompanied him on his trip to Indonesia.
Teachers
He utilized various teachers in his own city of Sayyun and in his migration to Indonesia, including:[5]
- Abd al-Qadir Bahamid
- Muhammad bin Hadi al-Saqaf
- Abd al-Rahman bin Ubaydallah al-Saqaf
- Alawi bin Tahir al-Haddad
Students
- Abd al-Qadir al-Sabban
- Ja'far bin Muhammad al-Saqaf
- Muhammad bin Salem al-Hamed
- Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Safi
Responsibilities
While active in the field of literature and writing, he held several government positions in the Al-Kathiri state at that time, including: Inspector of Sharia Courts, membership in the High Court of Appeal, and Official Mufti of the Al-Kathiri state. He formed the National Party in Sayyun and assumed its presidency. He had close contact and correspondence with many Arab and local figures, such as: Abd al-Rahman bin Sheikh al-Kaf, Alawi al-Mihdar, Abu Bakr bin Sheikh al-Kaf and others.
Works
The emergence of his literary works and poetic production had a significant impact on the Hadramaut literary movement. He has several collections, poems, articles and numerous speeches that are still in the possession of his heirs, and he has letters, scientific research and travelogues. Including: "Ta'liqat ala Fath al-Bari li Sharh Sahih al-Imam al-Bukhari" "Ali Shu'a al-Quran" "Fatawa wa Ta'liqat" "Rihlat Java al-Jamila" "History of Hadramaut" in two volumes and he was unable to complete the third part "Nasamat al-Rabi'" Diwan of Poetry "Layali al-Musayf" Diwan of Poetry "Ala Shati' al-Hayat" Diwan of Poetry Collection of Childhood Poems and Ghazal Poems Collection of Popular Political and Social Poems Notebooks in Linguistics Memoirs in Literature and History
Children
He has five male children named Ali, Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Hussein and Ghalib and six daughters named Mona, Khadijah, Noor, Alawiyah, Maznah and Fatimah.
Death
He died on the sixth of Rabi' al-Awwal in the year 1387 AH, corresponding to the fourteenth of Khordad in the year 1967 CE, in the city of Sayyun due to a stroke.[6]
Notes
- ↑ Yusuf, Muhammad Khair bin Ramadan (1425 AH). Mu'jam al-Mu'allifin al-Mu'asirin. Part One. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: King Fahd National Library. Page 278.
- ↑ Encyclopedia of Yemeni Singing Poetry in the Twentieth Century, Part Three, Page 367, Second Edition 2007, Deposit Number at Dar al-Kutub: (297).
- ↑ Al-Mashhur, Abd al-Rahman bin Muhammad (1404 AH). Shams al-Zahira (PDF). Part One. Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Alam al-Ma'rifah. Page 289. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 January 2020.
- ↑ Al-Mashhur, Abu Bakr bin Ali (1419 AH). Jani al-Qutaf. Medina, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Dar al-Muhajir. Page 414.
- ↑ Al-Saqaf, Abd al-Rahman bin Ubaydallah (1425 AH). Idam al-Qut fi Dhikr Buldan Hadramaut. Beirut, Lebanon: Dar al-Minhaj. Page 802.
- ↑ "Sayyid al-Habib Saleh bin Ali al-Hamed". Shabwah Press. Archived from the original on 31 August 2020.
References
Al-Hamed, Saleh bin Ali (1423 AH). History of Hadramaut. Sana'a, Yemen: Al-Irshad Library.