The Scholars

Al-Sayyid Muḥammad al-Ḥabīb was born in Bereina, the most famous village of the ‘Alawiyyīn (this name relates only to the lineage), in the year 1395 AH, in a house of knowledge & righteousness. He is from the esteemed lineage (of the Prophet ﷺ) through his father’s side. After memorizing the Noble Qur’ān, he joined the elementary school in Tunisia, where his father, Shaykh Aḥmadū, may Allāh have mercy on him, was a specialist at The Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization. After completing his primary school, he headed towards the Mahdari education, so he joined the Mahdara of Nabbāghiyya, following Shaykh Muḥammad Fāl (Ubbāh) (may Allāh perpetuate his blessings) and drank from the pure springs of the Mahdara in various sciences while he was in the prime of his youth; until he became one of the teachers and scholars of the Mahdara. Shaykh al-Sayyid excelled in sīrah, naḥw, and linguistics. He continued his modern education on the sidelines of his studies and teaching at the Mahdara until he obtained a bachelor’s degree from the Higher Institute of Islamic Studies and Research in Nouakchott, in which he undertook the task of teaching for a period before he was called to teach at the University of Ahqāf in Mukallā in Haḍramawt, Yemen. After some years he returned and continued his studies at the modern University of Shinqīṭ, where he also became a professor. He obtained a master’s degree, then settled at the Mahdara of Nabbāghiyya as a student and teacher, teaching various texts. Shaykh al-Sayyid is regarded to be one of the stallions of the poets and one of the knights of the writers in the area of Shinqīṭ. He also knows the French language quite well.