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Abu Makhrama : Kiladat al-nahr

(Chronicle-biographical dictionary)(1521-2) from Yemen
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Abu Makhrama, Abu Muḥammad Abd Allah al-Tayyib ibn Abd Allah Ahmad alAdani (1465-1540). He belonged to a South Arabian Himyarite clan of Shafi'i (4) jurists and Sufis who lived in Hadramawt and Aden. Sickness prevented him from finishing his two main works: Chronicle of Aden: Ta’rikh Thaghr Adan and Kiladat al-Nahr fi wafayat a’yan al-dahr: Tabakat work, with historical supplement.

Taken from: al-maktaba.org كتاب قلادة النحر في وفيات أعيان الدهر

 

Vol6 p228

3983 - [Ismail Al-Qalhati]

Ismail bin Ahmed bin Daniel Abu Al-Zabih (19), known as Al-Qalhati (2), was originally from the country of Hormuz (1), and in it he was born in the year six hundred eighty-six (1297/8), and I understand to a man representing one of the companions of al-Baydawi (20), and other than the two entrants to Hormuz and Qalhat (2), he used to combine the two rulings of religion and the world; he has full knowledge of jurisprudence and grammar, language and hadith, logic and fundamentals, and he used to recite in the Abu Hanifa (3) school of thought as well: Faced with him; Otherwise, he is from the Shafi'i (4) school of faith, and there was a certain good understanding between him and the Sultan of Hormuz. When the Sultan was killed, he got out of Hormuz (1). Intending (to go to) Mekdhoh (Mogadishu), but the wind did not help him, so he went to Aden, and that was in the year eighteen and seven hundred (1318AD). And I was then staying in Aden, I met him, I found him to be fully worthy and knowledgeable, so I recited some of the « almafsala» (21), and he was an imam in literature, so when Al-Muiyid heard about him he asked him to Zabid (5), he was still at the door of the Sultan when Al-Muiyid and the Wali Mujahid died, then he took the opportunity to return to his country, he was given permission, and he went down to Aden. And he traveled from there to Hormuz (1), he stayed there until he died, and I did not know the date of his death.

 

 Vol6 p302-303

4102 - [Muhammad Ba'alawi, owner of turbans] ......

Ali bin Omar Alawi said: I traveled from Tarim (6) to the continent to search for the investigation of the new moon for some months, then I passed the cemetery, and the jurist Ibn Alawi was there, and he remained in it until I returned from the continent to Tarim (6) between them about three miles, and he used to say in the graves: Oh broad Forgiveness and mercy; Forgive us and have mercy on us, and have mercy on them, our parents and their parents, and make us and them among those who believed in what you revealed to your messengers. He heard that the jurist Ali bin Ahmed bin Abi Marwan had read “Al-Tanbih”, “Al-Muhthab”, “Al-Wajeez” and “Al-Wasit” in science, and he mastered reading each of them in a year. Such a thing does not happen to everyone!!! So he traveled to Maqdishuh (Mogadishu), and he read to the jurist Ibn Abd al-Samad these aforementioned books, reading it perfect. Every book in a year, and he got what he wished for, and he worked hard to read science day and night until he was burned by the fire of the lamp that is his light at night, about thirteen turbans (burned) when he fell asleep, and he became very awake, and if he became too sleepy again, he went out at night to the sea, studying what he read; Lest he fall asleep. And he read it with a group of people who benefited from it, and they became imams, including Sheikh Fadl bin Abdullah bin Abi Fadl, his companions, and he read about him in jurisprudence (=Fiqh), fundamentals (=Usul), hadith, interpretation (=Tafsir) and notes (=al-Raqiqa) with a decent study, and among them the scholar and jurist Sheikh Muhammad bin Abi Bakr bin Omar bin Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman bin Abdullah ba Abbad. Sheikh Fadl said: The jurist Muhammad bin Alawi, may God have mercy on him, said: When God Almighty determined that I had to break my leg, and my family went to put the cast to force her, I fell with great doubt about the pain of casting, and my family entered for my sake in a great fatigue. When I reached the compulsion, I spent my thinking about the people of Hell and what they are in. And I did not feel the pain of casting. It is mentioned in the book of dignities in the sentence: He was one of the great working scholars and diligent asceticism, with tolerance of hands, he used to pledge to his neighbors and say: If you do not have anything, we will help, and give your strength; and when his brother traveled to Mecca and adjacent to it he made his brother's family stand up completely into the religion. He died on the tenth of Dhu al-Hijjah (7) in the year sixty-seven and seven hundred (1366AD).

 

Taken from: Notes on Migration between Yemen and Northeast Africa during the 13–15th Centuries by Tamon Baba.

 …..al-Malik Masud ibn al-Muayyad al-Ghassany (also called al-Malik al-Masud  Abu al-Qasim) (the last of the Rasulid sultans) (mentioned in the History of Kilwa) was compelled to escape from Aden. From there, he travelled to Ara (a port on the  southern  tip  of  the  Arabian  Peninsula), Haqra  (a place in the Tihama near al- Muha), al-Muha, Zayla and Barbara)(11). Others who resisted the Tahirid family (=new rulers) had been forced to flee from Yemen to Zayla and Barbara (11), as well. The ruined sultan al-Malik al-Masud met them there, and then went south to Kilwa seeking support, due to the friendly relationship between the Rasulids and Kilwa; however, he found little support in the city. Eventually he moved across the Arabian Sea to Kanbaya (Cambay) in India.