Ba Kathir

باكثير

1867 CE · 1283 AH – 1936 CE · 1355 AH

Scholar from the Ba Kathir family of Hadramawt, a family known for its learning and for mosques at Tarim and Seiyun.

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Roles
Scholar · Jurist
Counted among
Sunni
Era
The Modern Era
Region
Arabia
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The Colonial Era · The Modern Era Contemporaries: Muhammad al-Bashir al-Khawja · Tantawi Jawhari · Ahmad al-Hamlawi · Mehmet Akif Ersoy · Muhammad Tawfiq al-Bakri

Scripture and its sciences

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Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

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موجز

محمد بن محمد بن أحمد باكثير الحضرمي، عالم من آل باكثير في حضرموت. وهي أسرة لها مآثر علمية ومساجد في تريم وسيئون. تُنسب إليه الولادة سنة 1283هـ والوفاة سنة 1355هـ. 1

People and things also explored

The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings· The seven ahruf· Hadith· Shama'il Muhammadiyya· The Prophetic sira· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Ba Kathir”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/bakathir-muhammad-ibn-muhammad/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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The abjad letters named for Madyan's kings

al-Mas'udi's etymology of the abjad numeral letters — the 29 letters of the abjad order named after six kings of Shu'ayb's people: Abjad of Mecca and the Hijaz, Hawwaz and Hutti of Wajj (the Ta'if and Najd lands), and Kalamn, Sa'fas and Qursht of Madyan or Egypt.