AFRICAN SCHOLARS AND SAINTS: THEIR LIVES AND TIMES: 2017

Friday, 24 November 2017

SHEIKH SHARIF UMAR HAIDARA AT-TIJANI

SHEIKH SHARIF UMAR HAIDARA: GRANDSON OF SHAIKH TIJANI & BAYE NIASS

- He is Sheikh Umar ibn Sidi Muhammad al-Habib ibn Sidi Mahmoud ibn Sidi Bashir ibn Sidi Muhammad al-Habib ibn Sheikh Sidi Ahmad Tidjani.

Baye Niasse with Sidi Muhammad al-Habib (Sharif Umar Haidara's father)

- His mother is Sayda Oumou Khayri Bint Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse.

Sayda Ummul Khayri Bint Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse (Sharif Umar Haidara's mother)

- He was born in Sheikh Ibrahim's Bedroom in Medina Baye on the 15th Rajab, same birthday as Sheikh Ibrahim.

Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse

- He was born in 1958 the year when Sheikh Ibrahim expanded the mosque in Medina Baye, and all of the Sheikhs of Senegal attended his Aqeeqah, Seydi Nourou Tall, Alhaji Abdul Aziz Sy, etc.

- Sheikh Ibrahim wanted to name him Sheikh Tijani but His father and seydi Nourou Tall named him Sheikh Oumar after Sheikh Oumar Fouti Taal. However all his life Sheikh Ibrahim would just call him Sheikh Tijani.

- He is the first descendant of Sheikh Ahmad Tijani (including Shaikh Ahmad Tijanis own children) to memorise the Quran, which he did with the famous Rabbani family of Medina Baye/Mauritania under Sheikh Ibrahim's instruction.

- He grew up in Medina Baye with his Grandfather Sheikh Ibrahim and went on Hajj with him twice. Many stories in those two journeys.

- Shaikh Tahir Bauchi narrated that one year, when he was a baby Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse presented him to the Emir of Zaria, who was known for his love of shurafa and said to him "If you love Sharifs then this is a great day for you, becuase this baby is a pure Sharif who's Grandfather Rasulullah told me that there is nobody in between me and him except Shaikh Ahmad Tijani".

Shaikh Tahir Bauchi

Shaykh Ibrahim used to ask him to pray for rain also....even though he was a child!

Yes! It was during a drought in Medina Baye, Baye told the everyone to gather hadiya and present it to Sharif so he can pray for rain. As soon as they have him the Hadiya and he took it into his room, it started raining and didn't stop for Days

Sheikh Ibrahim sometimes also used to send people with urgent or hefty needs to him, all while he was still young.

When he was a baby and also a young child sheikh Ibrahim took him on Hajj and carried him on his shoulders as he made tawaf.

Alhamdulilah!!!

via: Sidi Mustafa Okon-Briggs

Mustafa Briggs with Tijani Lawal Bara'u and Tidjani ibn Sheikh Oumar Haidara

SUFI LITERATURE AND PRAYER BOOKS COLLECTION (AVAILABLE FOR ORDER)

NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE

1. Tahniah (Congratulatory Ode) of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse to the Prophet Muhammad (Part 1) – Selected, Transliterated & Translated by Alhaji Abdul-Quadri Okeneye

2. Handbook for Every Tijaniyyat - (Compiled by Sayyid Ahmad Bello As-Suufi Harazimi)

CLASSICAL QUR'ANIC CALLIGRAPHY & MANUSCRIPTS (Available for order)

1. Qur’an (warsh) - Handwritten, with Barnawi/Kanawi calligraphic style (neatly wrapped in a leather skin-bag)

2. Qur’an (warsh) - Handwritten (Over centuries old manuscript, loosely bounded in leather case)

3. Qur’an (warsh) - Electronic print

4. Dalail al-khayrat (warsh) - Electronic print

5. Shifaa of Qadhi Iyadh (warsh) - Electronic print

6. Fii Riyadh Tafsir of Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse (7volumes)

7. Majmuu’at at-ta‘areef bi Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse (7volumes)

1. Dala'ilu l khairat of Shaikh Sulaiman Jazuli (Arabic text, Translation, Transliteration by Imam Marooph Raji)

2. Hizbu Sayfi & Hizbul Mughni (Arabic text, Translation, Transliteration by Imam Marooph Raji)

3. Hizbul Bahri (Arabic text, Translation, Transliteration by Imam Marooph Raji)

4. Hizbu Suwar al Manee'hi – ‘Arabic (composed like Hizbu Sayfi)’ (by Shk. Muhammad Gibrima)

5. Sidratul Muntaha ad-daa'een– ‘Arabic’ (by Muhammad Gibrima)

6. Jihazu Sarih – ‘Arabic prayer book on Salatul fat’hi’ (by Shk. Muhammad Gibrima)

7. Tibbul faa'ihi – ‘Arabic prayer book on Salatul fat’hi’ (by Shk. Abdul-Waahid Nazeefii)

8. Nataa'ij Safar – ‘Arabic prayer book on Salatul fat’hi’ (by Shaikh Muhammad Gibrima)

9. Itbaau Tazyeel – ‘Arabic prayer book on Salatul fat’hi’ (by Shaikh Muhammad Gibrima)

10. Sirrul Jaleel fii l Khawaas 'Hasbunallahu wa ni'mal Wakeel (by Shaikh Abul Hassan Shadhili)

11. Afdalu Salawaat ala Sayyidi Saadaat – ‘Arabic collection of Salat upon the Prophet’ (Shaikh Yusuf ibn Ismaa'eel an-Nabahani)

12. Kanzul Masun wa luuluu l Maknuun – ‘Arabic collection of prayers written by Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse. Compiled by Imam Hassan Cisse’.

13. Ahzab wa Awrad (Litanies) of Shaikh Ahmad Tijani

1. Vessel of Spiritual Flood, Translation of Goran Faydah by Shaykh Balarabe Haroon Jega - (Translated by Khalifah Awwal Baba Taofiq)

2. Rihlat Konakriyah (A trip to Conakry), Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse - (Translated by Khalifah Awwal Baba Taofiq)

3. Shariah and Haqeeqah: In the Light of the Qur'an and the Prophetic Traditions (Compiled by Khalifah Awwal Baba Taofiq)

4. The Icon of Mystics: Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse Al-Kawlakhy (Compiled by Khalifah Awwal Baba Taofiq)

5. Kano Conferences (Majlis Kano) and the khutba titled (Hadiqat al-Anwar fii ma ihtawa alayhi qawaaid al-Islam minal hikam wal asrar) - (Translated by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

6. Katsina and Kaduna Conferences (Jadhbul ahbab ila hadrat Rabbil arbab) and Mecca Conference - (Translated by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

7. A Brief Biography of the Shaykh al-Islam Ibrahim Niasse (Compiled by Sayyidah Bilqis Grillo)

8. Risalat at-Tawbah (Epistle of Repentance) of Shaykh Ibrahim Niyass al-Kawlakhi" – (Translation & Commentary by Dr. Razzaq Solagberu)

9. Islamic Law of Inheritance, by Sayyid Ali ibn Abubakar al-Muthanna ibn Abdullah Niasse (Translated by Dr. Sulaiman Shittu)

10. Muassasah Nasr al-'ilm Int. (AAII) Magazines No. 13, 14 & 15 (with Articles like Outline of Life of Sufi Heros & Heroines like Shaikh Ibrahim Niasse, Shaikh Abdus-Salam Oniwiridi Pakata, Shaikh Muhammad Bello Eleha, Shaikh Ahmad Rufa'i Nda Salati, and others...this magazines also features other interesting Articles).

11. Numerous “English” Sufism & Tijaniyyah Tariqah E-books/Journals/Articles (soft copies - to be sent via email)

12. Numerous “Arabic” Sufism & Tijaniyyah Tariqah E-books/Journals/Articles (soft copies - to be sent via email)

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Wednesday, 15 November 2017

IMAM SAYED ABDUS-SALAM

IMAM SAYED ABDUS-SALAM: GREAT AMERICAN SUFI

By: Rasul Miller and Samiha AbduRahman

Al-Hajj Imam Sayed Abdus Salam was a pioneer in New York City’s Muslim community. Born in 1942, he became involved in Harlem’s local Black Nationalist scene as a teenager. As a young man, he joined the Nation of Islam. Following Malcolm X’s departure from the Nation, Imam Sayed also left and attended the first meeting of Malcolm X’s Muslim Mosque Inc. Subsequently, he studied Sunni Islam and frequented various NYC Mosques that were active during the 1960s, such as the International Muslim Society or ‘303’ in Harlem and the State Mosque in Brooklyn.

Imam Sayed then lived in Guyana for a brief period, where he encountered Tasawwuf through members of the local Muslim community there.

He returned to New York and became a cofounder of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB) in Harlem in the late 1960s. There, Imam Sayed served as the Na'ib (assistant Imam) to Shaykh Ahmed K. Tawfiq, the founding Imam of the Muslim Mosque Inc. In this capacity, Imam Sayed developed MIB’s curriculum of study and oversaw the religious education of new shahadas, drawing on his exceptional erudition. In addition, he gave numerous shahadas and performed the general duties of the Imam (delivered sermons, etc) when needed.

In the later half of the 1970s, Imam Sayed left MIB on amicable terms due to what he saw as a need for the community to move in a more 'spiritual’ direction. In 1978, he met Shaykh Hassan Aliou Cisse, a young Senegalese Islamic scholar and humanitarian who would go on to become his generation’s most celebrated representative of the Tijani Sufi tariqa, and the spiritual guide for the largest community of Black American Sufis in the country.

Imam Sayed Abdus Salam & Shaykh Hassan Aliou Cisse

Imam Sayed became the first American man to join the Tijani tariqa and was appointed by Shaykh Hassan as the the first American muqaddam in the tariqa. Upon traveling to Medina Baye Senegal, a prominent hub for the Tijani Sufi tariqa, Imam Sayed also received an ijaza (license) and muqaddamship from Shaykh Hassan Cisse’s father, Shaykh al-Hajj Sidi Aliou Cisse, the top student, aid, and successor of the world renowned West African Muslim scholar Shaykh Ibrahim Niass (RA). Imam Sayed went on to send many of his children and grandchildren to Medina Baye to memorize the Quran and pursue Islamic scholarship – some of whom are still studying there today.

Shaykh al-Hajj Sidi Aliou Cisse
(Shaykh Hassan Cisse’s father)

Imam Sayed served as Imam for the Tijani community in the US for the next 40 years, teaching and promoting Islam and Tasawwuf. Imam Sayed has benefited countless people by giving them shahada, teaching them Islam, giving them the tariqah, and/or teaching them the fundamentals of tasawwuf which, for him, revolved around purifying the heart, improving one’s character, and increasing one’s love for the Prophet (SAW) and adherence to his Sunnah. In the mid-2000s, Imam Sayed and his wife Sister Najah Abdus-Salaam opened their home in Brooklyn to serve as a Tijani zawiyah, where members of the community have gathered each week for more than a decade for dhikr and fellowship.

Shaikh Mahi Cisse, Imam Sayed and his wife, Sister Najah Abdus-Salaam

Imam Sayed is survived by his wife Sister Najah, fourteen children, and many grandchildren.

May Allah grant him the highest paradise. May He forgive his sins and accept all of his good deeds. May the acts of worship and goodness offered by his children and grandchildren, and the many people that he taught, inspired, and encouraged to remember Allah and follow His straight path continue to benefit him. May the mosques and communities he helped to establish thrive and continue to serve as lights for humanity. May Allah reward Imam Sayed for fostering love for Allah and His Prophet (SAW) in the hearts of so many people, and keep him in the company of His most beloved (SAW).

Ameen summa Ameen!

– The writers Rasul and Samiha are American Masters students and disciples of the Tariqa Tijani in Medina Baye.

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SUFI LITERATURE AND PRAYER BOOKS COLLECTION (AVAILABLE)

NEW BOOKS AVAILABLE

1. Tahniah (Congratulatory Ode) of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse to the Prophet Muhammad (Part 1) – Selected, Transliterated & Translated by Alhaji Abdul-Quadri Okeneye

2. Handbook for Every Tijaniyyat - (Compiled by Sayyid Ahmad Bello As-Suufi Harazimi)

CLASSICAL QUR'ANIC CALLIGRAPHY & MANUSCRIPTS (new/available for order)