Shaykh Muhammad Al-Sumaalee (Somali: Sheekh Maxamed Soomaali, 1910-2005) was a Somali scholar and teacher in the Masjid Al-Haram in Mecca. He influenced many of the prominent Islamic scholars of today. [1]
Early life
Shaykh Al-Sumaalee was born in Ogaden in the village of Amaadin, the Shaykh remembered seeing as a child the Dervish leader Sayyid Abdullah Hassan who led one the fiercest colonial resistance wars in Africa during the scramble for Africa. From the time he was seven he sought knowledge and began memorizing the Quran and read it to his teacher. When the Shaykh was old enough to travel and had memorized all his teachers could teach, he travelled to other lands for knowledge.
At the age of 20 he began his travel through Ethiopia and studied the book Nadhm Al-'Umarbatee with Shaikh Muhammad Mu'allim Husayn and several other scholars. He stayed in Ethiopia for two years and then decided to go back home, during the journey he became very sick because of the difference in food between Ethiopia and Somalia, and his Paternal aunt helped him recover from it, after that she gave him an ox so he could sell it on the market and travel to his next destination which was Djibouti. There he studied the book Safeenah An-Najaa but did not finish it due to his short stay in Djibouti which only lasted for two months for he traveled by sea to Yemen. It is said that Shaykh Muhammad became so ill during his boattrip to Yemen that he swore he would never again travel by sea. He arrived in the Yemeni city of Zabeed and stayed there for three months, from there he went to Sana'a
His Health
His students
A number of students studied under the Shaikh, at the Daar-ul-Hadeeth center, in Al-Masjid Al-Haraam, and at the Islamic University.
1. Shaikh Muhammad Ibn 'Abdillaah As-Subayyal, the head of the affairs of the Haramayn and the Imaam and khateeb of Al-Masjid Al-Haraam
2. Shaikh Yahyaa Ibn 'Uthmaan Al-Makkee Al-Hindee, from the scholars of Hijaaz
3. Shaikh Muqbil Ibn Haadee Al-Waadi'ee, the Muhaddith of the lands of Yemen, who described his Shaikh in his book "Al-Muqtarah fee 'Ilm-il-Mustalah" as "the most knowledgeable person about the Science of Hadeeth in the area of Hijaaz."
4. Shaikh 'Umar Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Abdillaah As-Subayyal, Imaam and Khateeb of Al-Masjid Al-Haraam
5. Shaikh Ahmad Wulu Al-Habashee
6. Shaikh Muhammad Hasan Al-Jaysh
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