by Ibrahim Moiz
The Muslim world mourned this week the lack of senior scholar and teacher, Shaykh Dr.Umar bin Hassan Fallatah. This Maliki scholar of Nigerian Fulani descent, who specialised in hadith, met his finish at his birthplace Madinah, the place he had been educating on the Prophet’s Mosque for over forty years.
The loss of life of a scholar is all the time a selected loss for the Muslim world, as a result of it additionally deprives us of his specific information and knowledge. A widely known hadith relayed by Abdullah b. Amr quotes the Prophet, could Allah’s blessings and peace be upon him, as saying,
“Really, Allah doesn’t withhold information by snatching it away from his servants, however moderately he withholds information by taking the souls of students, till no scholar stays and other people observe ignorant leaders. They’re requested they usually concern judgments with out information. Thus, they’re astray and lead others astray.” [Sahih al-Bukhari 100, Sahih Muslim 2673]
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Shaykh Dr.Umar bin Hassan Fallatah
We’re lucky to have a not too long ago revealed biography of the scholar from the Telegram account KnowledgeNomad, who attended his lectures final yr and gained this info first-hand from the shaykh himself. Shaykh Umar Hassan Usman Fallata was born in Medinah, the place his grandfather had settled from West Africa to an ethnically Fulani household in the summertime of 1364/1945. The aspiring historian FikralJabarti notes that Shaikh Fallata’s ancestors had been Ottoman troopers earlier than their settlement in Medinah. He obtained his major education in Medinah and his greater training, with distinction, at Makkah in addition to Cairo’s esteemed Azhar College. Within the Eighties he briefly studied English at Los Angeles earlier than returning to show on the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah.
Shaykh Umar Usman’s positions included Head of the Shariah Division on the School of Shariah and Islamic Research in Makkah, in addition to Head of the Arabic Language and Islamic Research Division at King Abdul-Aziz College’s Madinah campus, the place he was promoted to dean. He was identified to concentrate on Hadith and Tafsir, adhering to the Maliki jurisprudential faculty. Usually identified merely as Umar Fallata, he isn’t to be confused with an older namesake, Umar Muhammad Bakar Fallata, one other senior scholar who handed away in 1999.
The Muslim world is thus bereaved of a seasoned and well-respected scholar. It’s no small comfort that it was within the month of Ramadan that he returned to Allah .
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