Ba 'Alawiyya

This article is about the sufi order. For the Ba 'Alawi family, see Ba 'Alawi sada.
Not to be confused with Alawiyya or Alevism.

The Ba 'Alawiyya (Arabic: طريقة آل باعلوي), also known as the Ba Alawiyya tariqa, is a Sufi order centered in Hadhramawt, Yemen, but now spread across the Indian Ocean rim along with the Hadhrami diaspora. The order is closely tied to the Ba 'Alawi sada family.

It was founded by al-Faqih Muqaddam As-Sayyid Muhammad bin Ali Ba'Alawi al-Husaini, who died in the year 653 AH (1232 CE). He received his ijazah from the renowned qutb Abu Madyan in Morocco via his students. Abu Madyan was an indirect origin of the Shadhili order as 'Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish, the shaykh of Abu al-Hasan al-Shadhili, was a disciple of Abu Madyan's disciple 'Abd al-Rahman al-Madani. The members of this Sufi way are mainly sayyids whose ancestors hail from the valley of Hadramaut, in eastern Yemen, although it is not limited to them.

The chain of ijazah of spiritual Sufi transmission from al-Faqih Muqaddam Sayyid Muhammad traces back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad via his cousin Ali and from him, his son Husain.

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