Ali bin Abdullah al-Aydarus was a Ba Alawi scholar of Tarim. Al-Mashra al-Rawi records that he memorised the Quran under Abdullah bin Umar Bagharib, studied foundational texts and pursued jurisprudence and tasawwuf with Abd al-Rahman bin Alawi Bafaqih and other scholars of his period.
The biography remembers Ali as active in teaching, service to people, hospitality to visitors and intercession on behalf of others.
Karamat in the received tradition
Al-Mashra al-Rawi says that many karamat and extraordinary occurrences were attributed to Ali. It particularly associates these accounts with his efforts on behalf of people who had erred, acknowledged their wrongdoing and sought help, describing him as interceding for them through both action and prayer. The source does not give enough detail in this section to reconstruct individual incidents responsibly, so the attribution is retained without embellishment.
A later historical compilation identifies him as Ali bin Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Husayn bin Abdullah al-Aydarus, likewise places him in Tarim, names Abdullah bin Umar Bagharib and Abd al-Rahman bin Alawi Bafaqih among his teachers, and records his death in 1078 AH.
Lineage and source note
Primary source: Al-Mashra al-Rawi fi Manaqib al-Sada al-Kiram Al Abi Alawi, volume 2, biography of Ali bin Abdullah al-Aydarus. It records his Quran study, teachers, teaching activity and attributed karamat. Because the primary section does not preserve a clear closing death year, the 1078 AH date is taken from a later historical compilation that independently preserves the same identity and teacher chain.