Background
Al-Harariyy was born in 1910 in Harar, Ethiopia.
Al-Harariyy was born in 1910 in Harar, Ethiopia.
In 1983, he founded Al-Ahbash, a Beirut-based organization also known as the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects (AICP). Al-Ahbash is a Sufi religious movement which runs Islamic schools affiliated with Cairo's Al-Azhar University. Al-Harariyy was one of the Ulama signatories of the Amman Message.
He was also licensed as a Shaykh by Al-Azhar University's branch in Lebanon. Al-Harariyy died of natural causes on September 2, 2008, aged 98.