Husayn bin Abdullah al-Aydarus was a Ba Alawi scholar of Tarim who lived from 861 to 917 AH. Al-Mashra al-Rawi records that he memorised the Quran, studied recitation and tajwid, and then pursued the religious and Arabic sciences. His teachers included Muhammad bin Ali Kharid, Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman Balfqih, Ahmad Sharif bin Ali Kharid, Abdullah bin Abd al-Rahman Balhaj Bafadl and Abdullah bin Ali Bamadraj. His father died while Husayn was still a child, and the source says that his uncle Ali bin Abi Bakr took responsibility for his upbringing.
Husayn later travelled through Yemen and Aden and performed Hajj. In the Hijaz he studied hadith and other disciplines with scholars including Muhammad bin Abd al-Rahman al-Sakhawi and Ibrahim bin Ali bin Zuhayrah. After returning to Tarim he taught across several fields. The source names a number of people who studied with him, including his son Ahmad bin Husayn bin Abdullah al-Aydarus, whose own biography also records study under his father.
The source also associates Husayn with the restoration of a mosque in Tarim that became connected with his name. He died in Tarim on 16 Muharram 917 AH and was buried near his brother. A modern scholarly study of Hadrami Shafi’i jurists independently confirms his death in 917 AH and discusses him among the scholars of that period. Traditional miracle narratives preserved in the source are omitted from this historical account.
Lineage and source note
Primary source: Al-Mashra al-Rawi fi Manaqib al-Sada al-Kiram Al Abi Alawi, volume 2. The mapped section gives Husayn’s birth in 861 AH, education, travels, teachers, students and death on 16 Muharram 917 AH. His identity and 917 AH death are independently corroborated in modern scholarship on Hadrami Shafi’i jurists and in later biographical references. Devotional and miraculous narratives in the traditional source are not asserted as independently verified events.