Umar bin Abdullah bin Alawi al-Aydarus was a Ba Alawi scholar and community leader of Aden, born there in 926 AH. Al-Mashra al-Rawi describes him as a scholar of the religious sciences, Arabic and literary disciplines who received authorisation to teach and guide others.
The primary biography records that Umar deliberately avoided public display despite his learning. It says that he preferred humility and relative obscurity and did not cultivate a written legacy of formal legal responses or authored books. After the death of his brother Muhammad, he assumed the family’s public responsibilities in Aden, including hospitality and assistance to visitors and people in need.
Al-Mashra al-Rawi also preserves traditional accounts of karamat and spiritual insight attributed to Umar, including a prediction concerning the later Ottoman occupation of Aden. These reports are presented as part of the received devotional biography rather than as independently verified historical events.
The source records that Umar died in Aden in 1000 AH, having passed the age of seventy, and was buried inside the tomb complex of his grandfather Abu Bakr al-Aydarus. A later al-Aydarus family history independently identifies the same Umar bin Abdullah bin Alawi, gives his birth in Aden in 926 AH, death there in 1000 AH, and burial beside his grandfather in the same complex.
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. His al-Aydarus/Ba Alawi lineage, Aden setting, public role and death are explicit in the source. A later al-Aydarus family history independently corroborates his birth in 926 AH, death in 1000 AH and burial beside Abu Bakr al-Aydarus. Source-attested karamat are retained only as attributed received tradition.
Scholarly connections
The primary source states that Umar had many teachers but does not identify them precisely enough in this section to support exact live interlinks. No scholarly relationship is inferred from family or chronology alone.