Alam al-Din al-Fadani
- Died
- 1411 AH
- Born in
- Mecca
Alam al-Din al-Fadani (1335–1410 AH / 1916–1990 CE) was a Mecca-born Shafi'i scholar and hadith specialist of Indonesian descent, renowned as one of the foremost authorities on transmission chains (musnid al-asr) in the fourteenth century of the Islamic calendar .
Name and Upbringing
His full name was Abu al-Fayd Alam al-Din Muhammad Yasin ibn Muhammad Isa ibn Udiq al-Fadani al-Makki al-Shafi'i . His family originated from Padang (Fadan), a region in Indonesia, but he was born and raised in Mecca . He began his early education under his father and his uncle Mahmud, before enrolling in Madrasat al-Sawlatiyya .
Education and Teachers
Al-Fadani studied under many prominent scholars residing in or visiting the Hijaz . He maintained a long association with Muhammad Ali ibn Husayn al-Maliki, and studied with Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Mashshat and the hadith scholar of the Two Holy Sanctuaries, Umar ibn Hamdan al-Mahrasi . His teachers also included the Shafi'i mufti Umar Bajunayd, Muhsin ibn Ali al-Musawa al-Falimbani, the historian Muhammad Ghazi al-Makki, and the Quranic reader Shihab Ahmad al-Mukhallalati . He documented his teachers' biographies in a biographical dictionary titled Tashnif al-asma', which contained 230 entries .
Teaching and Students
In 1356 AH, al-Fadani began teaching at Dar al-Ulum al-Diniyya in Mecca . He conducted diverse teaching circles in the Sacred Mosque, as well as in his private residence and office, and in 1377 AH he established an institute dedicated to training female teachers .
A large number of students studied under him and later disseminated his transmissions across Southeast Asia and the wider Islamic world . Among his notable students and transmitters were Mahmud Sa'id Mamduh, who compiled al-Fadani's chains in I'lam al-qasi wa-l-dani, and Muhammad Mukhtar al-Din al-Falimbani, who compiled his teachers in Bulugh al-amani . His direct narrators also included Abd al-Fattah ibn Husayn Rawah, Yusuf al-Mar'ashli, and Abd Allah al-Sa'd .
Death
Al-Fadani died in Mecca at dawn on Friday, 28 Dhu al-Hijjah 1410 AH (1990 CE) . His funeral prayer was held after the Friday prayer, and he was buried in the cemetery of Jannat al-Mu'alla .
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List of Works
al-Ujala fi al-Ahadith al-Musalsala (The Prompt Treatise on Uniformly Chained Hadiths) is a specialized hadith work that collects narrations transmitted through continuous chains sharing an identical verbal phrasing, physical gesture, or narrator condition (al-ahadith al-musalsala).