Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad

Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad was a Sunni Islamic scholar from Qaydun in Wadi Dawan, Yemen. He followed the Ba 'Alawiyya way of teaching and spend years proselytizing in East Africa, where he contributed to the establishment of mosques and schools.

He was a descendant of Muhammad's grandson Husayn.

Education His father spent long periods in Indonesia and his mother, Safiyyah, raised him. She took him to the Ribat of Qaydun at an early age, a religious school founded by his two uncles. His uncle, Habib Alawi, took him to Tarim to learn from the scholars there. His uncle also took him to Indonesia to meet and learn from great scholars there. In Mukalla he met and learned from Habib Ahmad bin Muhsin al-Haddar, and from him he received his spiritual opening.

He was deeply concerned for the Muslim world as a whole and about various conflicts in Muslim countries to the extent that world events could give him physical symptoms. He represented Uganda at the Muslim World League.