Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Ahmad al-Aydarus was a Ba Alawi scholar from Tarim whose career later extended into India. Al-Mashra al-Rawi records that he memorised the Quran with Abdullah bin Umar Bagharib, studied hadith, jurisprudence and tasawwuf with his father, and continued his education with scholars including Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman bin Shihab al-Din. He also kept company with Zayn bin Muhammad Ba Hasan and Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Shatiri.
Ahmad later travelled through western India and the Deccan. The biography describes a period with his maternal uncle Ja’far al-Sadiq in Ahmadabad before Ahmad moved deeper into the Deccan, where he taught and became known for learning in hadith, jurisprudence, Arabic and literature.
A later Indian biographical compilation preserves the same identity and scholarly trajectory and records that Ahmad died in Hyderabad in 1073 AH, where he was buried near the Quwwat al-Islam mosque.
Scholarly connections
Teacher: Abu Bakr bin Abd al-Rahman bin Shihab al-Din. Al-Mashra al-Rawi explicitly names him among Ahmad’s teachers.
Lineage and source note
Primary source: Al-Mashra al-Rawi fi Manaqib al-Sada al-Kiram Al Abi Alawi, volume 2, biography of Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Husayn al-Aydarus. It records his Tarim education, named teachers, travels to India, teaching activity and scholarly fields. A later Indian biographical compilation corroborates the same identity, career and death in Hyderabad in 1073 AH.