Taha bin Umar bin Taha al-Saqqaf was a Ba Alawi jurist and judge of Sayun. Al-Mashra al-Rawi records that he was born in Sayun, sought knowledge from an early age and studied jurisprudence and other religious sciences with scholars in Sayun and Tarim.
His teachers included Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Siraj, Ahmad bin Muhammad Bajammal and, in Tarim, Ahmad bin Umar al-Bayti al-Saqqaf, together with other scholars. The source says that Taha became especially distinguished in jurisprudence and, after initially resisting the appointment, served as judge of Sayun. It portrays his tenure as marked by care for justice, public benefit and adherence to religious practice.
Later specialist research on Hadrami Shafii jurists identifies the same Taha bin Umar bin Taha al-Saqqaf, likewise places him in Sayun and records that he served as judge there for about eleven years. That research notes a death-year variant: the Al-Mashra text gives 1062 AH, while 1063 AH is identified as the correct year. A later Ba Alawi teaching source likewise records his death in 1063 AH, on a Friday around the time of the congregational prayer.
This profile therefore uses 1063 AH while preserving the 1062 AH reading as a documented textual variant rather than silently discarding it.
Lineage and source note
Primary source: Al-Mashra al-Rawi fi Manaqib al-Sada al-Kiram Al Abi Alawi, volume 2, full mapped biography section. The Ba Alawi lineage and scholarly record are explicit in the primary source. Independent same-person material is used to corroborate identity, chronology and scholarly activity. Source-attested devotional material is retained only as attributed received tradition.
Scholarly connections
Only named teachers whose historical identity resolves exactly to an existing live BaAlawi biography are linked inline. No relationship is inferred from surname, family proximity or chronology alone.