أعلام السنة المنشورة للطائفة الناجية المنصورة (٢٠٠ سؤال وجواب)
Biography of the Author
His Birth and Early childhood:
Sheikh Haafidh Ibn Ahmed ‘Alee Al-Hakamee (rahimahullaah ta’aala) was one of
the scholars from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and one of the most famous of
those who lived in the 14th century of Hijrah to come from the southern region of
the country.
Sheikh Haafidh was born on the 24th of Ramadaan, 1342H (1924) in a coastal
village called as-Salaam which lies south of the city of Jaazaan. When he was still
just a small boy he moved with his family to the village of Al-Jaadi’, which lies
about 6 kilometres east of the city of Saamitah because his father found that
farmland and pastures were better there. However, his immediate family
continued to commute between the two cities due to extenuating circumstances.
The young Haafidh was raised under the good and righteous guardianship of his
father who taught him modesty, purity and good character. Before reaching the
age of maturity, he worked as a shepherd herding his fathers’ sheep, which were
the most important form of wealth to his family as well as the rest of the people in
the society in those days. However, Haafidh differed from the other boys in his
village because of his intelligence and his ability to memorize and understand
quickly. He learned to write while he still a small boy and he memorized the entire
Quran by the time he was twelve years old.
Seeking Knowledge and Religious Studies:
When the young Haafidh reached the age of seven years, his father put both him
and his older brother Muhammad into Quran memorization school in Al-Jaadi’.
There he read the 30th and 29th parts of the Quran to the teacher and afterwards
he and his brother finished learning to read the entire Quran with the proper rules
of recitation in just a few months. Shortly thereafter, he completed memorizing the
Quran in its entirety.
Next, he concentrated on his writing skills until he perfected them and was able to
copy the Quran with excellent handwriting. At the same time, he and his brother
were busy reading and memorizing books of fiqh, inheritance law, hadeeth,
tafseer, and Tawheed under the tutelage of their father since there was no one
else suitable or trustworthy enough to teach them.
In the year 1358H (1940) the renowned reformer and great scholar, Sheikh
‘Abdullah Bin Muhammad Bin Hamd Al-Qar’aawee, traveled all the way from
Najd to the city of Tihaamah in the southern part of the Kingdom after he heard
about the level of ignorance and the spread of innovation in the region. Sheikh
Qar’awee’s journey to the south had been in conjunction with the consultation of
the Grand Muftee of Saudi Arabia at that time, Sheikh Muhammad Ibraheem
Aala-Sheikh (rahimahullaah ta’aala). Sheikh Al-Qar’aawee vowed to shoulder the
