Scholars of Yemen

A Student of Shaykh Rabīʿ Asked Imām Muqbil: “Who Is Your Successor?” Towards the end of the audio, Shaykh Kamāl al-ʿAdanī narrates that near the end of Imām Muqbil al-Wādiʿī’s life, while he was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, one of the students of Shaykh Rabīʿ asked him: “O Shaykh, who is your successor? Who will succeed you in knowledge?” Imām Muqbil replied: “Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī.” The student said: “O Shaykh, we do not know this man, Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī. Who is he?” Imām Muqbil replied: “He is the one whom we have now left upon the teaching chair.” The student then asked: “Is he the most knowledgeable of them?” Imām Muqbil replied: “Yes.” Shaykh Kamāl then added that ʿAbdullāh al-Maṭīr had also informed them that when Imām Muqbil was asked: “Who is the most knowledgeable person in Yemen?” He replied: “Shaykh Yaḥyā.” This testimony clearly demonstrates the position Imām Muqbil gave Shaykh Yaḥyā al-Ḥajūrī among his students: he entrusted him with the teaching chair, named him as his successor, and affirmed that he was the most knowledgeable amongst his students. May Allāh have mercy upon Imām Muqbil, Shaykh Rabīʿ, and Shaykh Kamāl. ——— ¹ ʿAbdullāh al-Maṭīr later deviated and joined the ḥizbiyyūn. Nevertheless, he was the one who swore that Imām Muqbil had made this statement.