al-Shaykh Umar bin Hamid al-Jaylani, Shafi Mufti of Makkah (رحمه الله) Jan.23,2026: Obituary by Shaykh Dr. Muhammad Bin Yahya Al-Ninowy

“If you live long enough, you will be struck with grief over every beloved one…
and the survival of your own self, may you never lose it, will be the most painful of all.”- Al-Imam al-Bukhari upon hearing the departure of al-Imam al-Darimi (may Allah Ta'ala grant them both His Rahmah and Pleasure).
The noble, learned scholar, the jurist, the Sufi, the Sayyid ʿUmar ibn Ḥāmid al-Jaylānī has passed on today.
In the Name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate.
Our Lord: upon You we have relied; to You we have returned in repentance; and to You is the final return.
Our Lord: indeed You are the Mighty, the Loving, and the Wise.
"Every soul shall taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as a trial, then to Us you will be returned".
With overwhelming grief and profound sorrow, yet with total surrender to the decree of the Creator of all, I received the news of the passing of the Sayyid, the jurist, the blessing and pillar of Hadramout, a descendant of the noble ʿAlawī Hāshimī lineage, the nurturing guide, the God-conscientious scholar, the honorable sharīf: our master Sayyid ʿUmar ibn Ḥāmid al-Jaylānī, today, on the plane on his way to events in Indonesia.
So to Allah belongs what He takes, and to Him belongs what He gives.
And everything is assigned to a term.
O Allah, I ask You, You who are the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate, to shower mercy upon our beloved Shaykh: the ascetic, the lover of the Prophet ﷺ, the upright believer, the righteous servant ʿUmar ibn Ḥāmid al-Jīlānī, and we do not claim righteousness for him before You, O Lord of all worlds,
and to receive him with a beautiful acceptance.
For truly, You are the ultimate aim of our hope,
the end of our seeking,
and the harbor where our longing finally rests.
Our Shaykh, may Allah have mercy upon him and be pleased with him, was among the eminent faces of the Shāfiʿī sayyids in the sacred city of Makkah. He was a sign among the signs of Allah the All-Loving Creator in the beauty of his outward character, the humility of his heart, and the lowering of his wing in gentleness.
To sit in his gatherings was to be reminded of the character of the greatest among the early generations: of the Prophetic Household, the Companions, and those who followed them with excellence among the saints and the righteous.
His very state would lift you.
His words would guide you to Allah.
In sum, Sayyid Shaykh ʿUmar, may Allah be pleased with him, was a light from the lights of knowledge and calling to Allah; a lantern by which people sought illumination in both sacred learning and spiritual state, in this fleeting world that is always departing even as it remains.
And on this sorrowful occasion, I extend to his beloved children, the noble sayyids of the honored household of Āl al-Jaylānī, and to all of his noble family, his brothers, his disciples, his students, and his lovers throughout the Islamic world, and to the honored scholars of Ahl al-Bayt in this era, and to the scholars of the Ummah in the East and the West, my finest words of consolation, my purest condolences, and my sincerest prayers.
May Allah Ta'ala magnify your reward.
May He beautify your patience and your solace.
May He repay you for this calamity with divine recompense.
May He replace it for you with what is better.
And may He grant you beautiful patience, and contentment, and surrender to Allah, Lord of all worlds and Loving creator of all.
Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we shall return.
And there is no power and no strength except with God, Lord of the worlds.
And may Allah Ta'ala magnify the reward for you as well, my dear readers.
Our Lord, we have wronged ourselves; and if You do not forgive us and have mercy upon us, we will surely be among the losers.
This… and may Allah Ta'ala invoke the best and most abundant of blessings and peace upon our master Muḥammad ibn ʿAbdillāh, and upon his family, his wives, his descendants, and his companions, and all praise is due to Him, in every state.
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