Abadir Umar ar-Rida

13th-century legendary Muslim saint

Abadir Umar Al-Rida
الفقيه الرضا أبادر موسى
Born	Hijaz, Arabia
Died	Harar

Sheikh Abaadir Umar Al-Rida (Harari: አባዲር ዑመር አል-ሪዳ ፈቂ ዑመር, Somali: Abaadir Umar Al-Rida, Arabic: الفقيه ابادر عمر الرضا), also known as Aw Abadir^[1] or Aw Badir was the legendary founder of Harar and a patron saint in modern-day eastern Ethiopia.^[2] The modern Harari people regard him as their common ancestor,^[2] as does the Somali Sheekhal clan.

History

Aw Abadir is the main figure in the Fath Madinat Al Harar, an unpublished history of Harar in the 13th century. According to the account, he along with several other religious leaders traveled to Harar from the Hijaz region of present-day Saudi Arabia in 612H (1216 AD). Sheikh Umar Al-Rida subsequently married a local Harari woman, and constructed the city's Jamia mosque.^[3]

Places

Aw Abadir Stadium, proposed stadium in Harar city
Abadir mosque, largest mosque in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia^[4]

Abadir is also avillage found in metehara oromia region. te village was named after a Sheki who came from arab and settled in harar ethiopia .

Notes

^ Shack, William (10 February 2017). The Central Ethiopians, Amhara, Tigriňa and Related Peoples North Eastern Africa Part IV. Taylor and Franics. ISBN 9781315307695.
^ ^a ^b Braukämper, Ulrich (2002). Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia: Collected Essays. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 107. ISBN 978-3-8258-5671-7.
^ Wagner, Ewald (1973). "Eine Liste der Heiligen von Harar". Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. 123 (2). Harrassowitz Verlag: 271. JSTOR 43370590.
^ Abdulwehab, Kemal (2011). "The history of Addis Abäba mosques". Annales d'Éthiopie. 26 (1): 312.

References

Michael Belaynesh, Stanisław Chojnacki, Richard Pankhurst, The Dictionary of Ethiopian Biography: From early times to the end of the Zagwé dynasty c. 1270 A.D, (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University: 1975)