Salam. I was happy to find this picture of this Shaykh whose name I had read so many times in various chains of transmission for hadith cited by the major scholars of the Hijaz. It is sufficient to know that he had as a student someone like Shaykh Yasin al-Fadani. When I met the scholar of the Haram al-Makki, Shaykh Ahmad Nur Sayf al-Muhairi, I asked him that I had heard that Shaykh Umar had a son living in Madinah. Shaykh Ahmad replied that he seemed to recall something similar, but as far as he knew this son was not known to be a scholar. Some time later I came across a contact number said to be for this son…
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Shaykh Umar bin Hamdan al-Mahrasi (1292-1368)
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Salam. I was happy to find this picture of this Shaykh whose name I had read so many times in various chains of transmission for hadith cited by the major scholars of the Hijaz. It is sufficient to know that he had as a student someone like Shaykh Yasin al-Fadani. When I met the scholar of the Haram al-Makki, Shaykh Ahmad Nur Sayf al-Muhairi, I asked him that I had heard that Shaykh Umar had a son living in Madinah. Shaykh Ahmad replied that he seemed to recall something similar, but as far as he knew this son was not known to be a scholar. Some time later I came across a contact number said to be for this son…