Abdullah al-Aydarus al-Hafid was a Ba Alawi scholar born in Tarim in 1027 AH. Al-Mashra al-Rawi places him within the al-Aydarus scholarly family and records an intensive education under leading scholars of Tarim before later travel to the Hijaz, India and al-Shihr.
Among the teachers explicitly named in the source were Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman bin Shihab al-Din and Abd al-Rahman bin Shihab al-Din al-Saqqaf, alongside Abd al-Rahman bin Muhammad Imam al-Saqqaf and members of his own al-Aydarus family. The source describes him studying jurisprudence, hadith, Arabic and tasawwuf, collecting books, teaching, and maintaining scholarly ties during his travels.
A later biographical compilation independently records his birth in Tarim in 1027 AH, identifies the same principal teachers, notes his journeys and return to Hadramawt, and gives his death at al-Shihr in Dhu al-Qadah 1073 AH.
Karamat in the received tradition
Al-Mashra al-Rawi says that many karamat and notable spiritual states were attributed to Abdullah during his later life at al-Shihr. The section does not enumerate those accounts individually, so the biography preserves the attribution at the same level of detail rather than expanding it beyond the source.
Lineage and source note
Primary source: Al-Mashra al-Rawi fi Manaqib al-Sada al-Kiram Al Abi Alawi, volume 2, biography of Abdullah al-Aydarus al-Hafid. It records his Tarim birth in 1027 AH, teachers, travels, scholarship, residence at al-Shihr, attributed karamat and spiritual states, and death there in Dhu al-Qadah 1073 AH. Later biographical material independently corroborates the identity, chronology and principal teacher network.