Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki
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Shaykh Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki |
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| Title | Shaykh |
| Born | 1944 Mecca, Saudi Arabia |
| Died | 2004 (aged 59-60) |
| Nationality | Saudi Arabian |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Era | Modern |
| Region | Arabian Peninsula |
| Occupation | Islamic scholar, Imam |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni (Sufism) |
| Jurisprudence | Maliki |
| Creed | Ash'ari |
| Alma mater | Al-Azhar University |
| Sufi order | Shadhili |
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Shaykh al-Sharif Al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Hasan ibn Alawi ibn Abbas ibn Abd al-Aziz al-Maliki al-Hasani al-'Idrisi al-Makki (1944–2004) was a prominent Sunni, Shadhili Islamic scholar from Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad Alawi al-Maliki was born in Mecca to a family of well known scholars who, like himself, taught in the Sacred Mosque. Five of the his ancestors have been the Maliki Imams of the Masjid al-Haram of Mecca. His grandfather, al-Sayyid Abbas al-Maliki was the Mufti and Qadi of Mecca and the Imam and Khatib of Masjid al-Haram. He held this position during the Ottoman then Hashemite times, and continued to hold it after the Saudi Kingdom was established too. He taught the various traditional Islamic sciences in the Masjid al-Haram of Mecca for nearly 40 years.
With his father’s instruction, he also studied and mastered the various traditional Islamic sciences of Aqidah (Islamic theology), Tafsir (Qur'anic exegesis), Hadith (Prophetic tradition (Sallalahu 'Alaihi Wa Salam)), [[Prophetic biography|Seerah] (Sallalahu 'Alaihi Wa Salam)] (Prophetic biography (Sallalahu 'Alaihi Wa Salam)), Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), Usul (origins and fundamentals), Mustalah (hadith terminology), Nahw (Arabic grammar), etc. Scholars of Mecca, as well as Medina, all of whom granted him full Ijazah (certification) to teach these sciences to others. Some of the scholars from whom he obtained ijazahs and chains of transmission from include: His father, Shaykh al-Sayyid 'Alawi ibn 'Abbas al-Maliki al-Hasani, Shaykh as-Sayyid al-Habib Ahmad Mashhur TaHa al-Haddad, Shaikh Hasanain Makhlouf, Shaykh Muhammad Hafidh al-Tijani, Shaykh Amin Kutbi, and numerous others. His brother, Sayyid Abbas & Sayyid Muhammad Abd al-Hasan is also a learned scholar but is better known for his beautiful voice and as the topmost Qasidah reciter of Saudi Arabia.
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