He would attend, in one day, up to fourteen gatherings of knowledge and remembrance. A day and a night would not pass except that he had stood in prayer in the night, recited a large portion of the QurвЂ™an, made abundant dhikr, taught his students, visited someone, wrote something, issued a legal opinion and saw to the needs of a Muslim. The extensive knowledge which he obtained led to his appointment as Mufti of Hadramawt. He travelled on numerous occasions to the HijazВ to take knowledge from its scholars, among them Shaykh MuhammadВ al-`Arabi al-Tabbani, Sayyid `Alawi bin `Abbas al-Maliki, Sayyid Muhammad Amin Kutbi and Shaykh HasanВ al-Mashat. He took knowledge from Habib MuhammadВ bin Hadi al-SaqqafВ in SayвЂ™un and Habib MustafaВ bin Ahmad al-Mihdar in al-Qwayrah. Habib MuhammadВ also built a strong connection with the knower of Allah, HabibВ Ja`far bin Ahmad al-`Aydarus. Among them were HabibВ `Abdullah bin `Umar al-Shatiri, Habib `Alawi bin `Abdullah bin Shihab and Habib `Ali bin `Abd al-Rahman al-Mashhur, his grandfather on his motherвЂ™s side. HabibВ SalimВ taught his son the foundational Islamic sciences and then took him to Tarim to learn from the cityвЂ™s scholars. Habib MuhammadВ was born in the village of Mishtah near Tarim in the year 1332 (1914) and was brought up under the supervision of his noble father, the great scholar, HabibВ Salim. He is al-Habib al-`Allamah al-Shahid Muhammad bin Salim bin Hafiz bin `Abdullah bin Abu Bakr bin `Aydarus bin `Umar bin `Aydarus bin `Umar bin Abu Bakr bin `Aydarus bin al-Husayn bin al-Shaykh al-Fakhr Abu Bakr bin Salim bin `Abdullah bin `Abd al-Rahman bin `Abdullah bin Shaykh `Abd al-Rahman al-Saqqaf bin Shaykh Muhammad Mawla al-Dawilah, bin `Ali Mawla al-Darak, bin `Alawi al-Ghayur, bin al-Faqih al-Muqaddam Muhammad, bin `Ali, bin Muhammad Sahib Mirbat, bin `Ali Khali` Qasam, bin `Alawi, bin Muhammad Sahib al-Sawma`ah, bin `Alawi, bin `Ubaydullah, bin al-Imam al-Muhajir il-Allah Ahmad, bin `Isa, bin Muhammad al-Naqib, bin `Ali al-`Uraydi, bin Ja`far al-Sadiq, bin Muhammad al-Baqir, bin `Ali Zayn al-`Abidin, bin Husayn al-Sibt, bin `Ali bin Abi Talib and Fatimah al-ZahraвЂ™, the daughter of our Master Muhammad, the Seal of the Prophets п·є.

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