Shaykh `Ali Hussain Maliki, Master of the fundamental and subsidiary Islamic sciences, jurist & teacher at the Makkan Haram and at Madrasa Dar al-`Ulum al-Deeniya. He was reffered to as (Seebwayh al-`Asr)). His father Shaykh Hussain bin Ibrahim Maliki, who passed away when Shaykh `Ali was five, and elder brother Shaykh `Abid Hussain Maliki al-Azhari (d.1340h)- student of Imam Ahmad Bin Zayni Dahlan & Haji Rahmatullah Keerwani, also teacher of Sayyid `Abbas Maliki and Shaykh Umar bin Hamdan Mahrisi- were both illustrious qadhis of Makka. The family was originally from Morocco and lived in Makka where Shaykh `Ali was born in 1287h. He later became the Maliki Mufti of the Haram and authored numerous works in various sciences, among them are “al-Sawanih al-Fakhira fi `Ilm al-Munazarah”, “Tahdheeb al-Furuq fi Usul al-Fiqh”, “Tadrib al-Tullab fi al-Nahw”, “Nayl al-Umniya bi sharh al-`Azziya”, “al-Qawati` al-Burhaniyya fi bayani Ifki Gulam Ahmad wa Atba`ihi al-Qaadyaniyya” in refutation of the Deviant Mirza Gulam Ahmad, and “al-Hady al-Taam wa fi bayan al-Mawlid wa ma U`uteed fihi min al-Qiyam”. He was the greatest teacher of Sayyid `Alawi Maliki the father of the late Muhadith of Makka Sayyid Muhammad `Alawi Maliki, after Sayyid `Abbas as mentioned in Fihrist al-Shuyukh wa al-Asaneed p32. He was the first Arab scholar to pen a lengthy poem in praise of Imam Ahmad Ridha Khan al-Birelwi, and endorsed the latter’s al-Dawla al-Makkiyya and Hussam al-Haramayn as he also took the Qadiri Rizvi Tariqa from him and Ijaza in the Noble hadith and Islamic sciences which is documented in the latter’s “al-Ijaazaat al-Matina li-`Ulama-i Bakkata wa al-Madina”. His personal library was endowed to the Makkan Library and remains there until today. He passed away in Ta’if in1367h. His student, Shaykh Yasin Fadani Makki authored a thabat pertaining to the chains of the Shaykh entitled “al-Maslak al-Jaliy fi Asaneed Fadheelat al-Shaykh Muhammad `Ali”.
The Shaykh’s biography is detailed in “Siyar wa Tarajim” by `Umar `Abd al-Jabbar Makki, published by Maktaba Tihama Jedda, and in “Tashneef al-Isma`” by Shaykh Mahmud Sa`eed Mamduh publihsed by Dar al-Shabab, Cairo.
source: http://scholarspen.blogspot.com/2007/04/mufti-ali-hussain-maliki-makki_22.html
