ABDELHAMID BEN BADIS

The Badisian family has been known since ancient times for having scientists, princes and sultans.  According to Marthe et Edmond Gouvion, the authors of the book A'ayan al-Aqsa al-Maghrib, published in the Fonatana Press in Algiers in 1920, Ibn Badis belongs to a long-standing house in science, and his lineage ends in a series related to Beni Badis, whose first grandfather is Manad Ben Hameed Ben Badis, whose honor marks appeared.  And control in the center of his tribe within the limits of the fourth century AH.  The origin of this tribe, as the Orientalists of Melkana or Talkana, a branch of the glories of the Sanhajia tribe, one of the famous Amazigh tribes in the Maghreb.  One of the famous men of this family in history was Sheikh Moez bin Badis (ruled: 406-454 AH / 1016-1062 AD), who resisted the heresy and victory of the year and declared the doctrine of the Sunnis and the group as a doctrine of the state, then the founder of the Senhaji state and the son of Prince Badis bin Mansour, governor of Africa and the Maghreb (  Ruling: 373-386 AH / 984-996 AD) descendant of the Prince "Belkin bin Ziri bin Mnad, known as Abu al-Fotouh, nicknamed the sword of Aziz, who took the Principality (361-373 AH / 971-984 m) during the rule of the Fatimids. During the Ottoman era, several figures emerged, including: The famous judge of Constantine, Abu al-Abbas Ahmadiyyah ibn Badis (died in 969 AH / 1561 AD), which Sheikh Shaykh al-Islam Abdul-Karim al-Fakun said:  And mandate, not to mention them from Dar Salah and learned and worked. " Abu Zakaria Yahya bin Badis Ibn al-Faqih Judge Abi Abbas "was alive with the creation of Hassan, much humility, Salem al-Sadr from the hypocrisy of his time, many reading of the signs of good things and the recitation of the book of God." Sheikh Mufti Barakat Ben Badis is the burialist of the Sidi Qammoush Mosque in Constantine in the same period. Abu Abdallah Muhammad ibn Badis, who Sheikh al-Fakun said: "He was reading with us on the Sheikh Touati (Mohammed Touati originally from Morocco, his fame was in Constantine, and spread his knowledge. He had a knowledgeable and even knowledge of the title Siboih his time, and has full knowledge of the science of readings)  The last thing he ordered, and after his departure, he read to Ali, a documentary of the town and those referred to. Sheikh Ahmed bin Badis, who was an imam in Constantine during the days of Sheikh Abdul Karim al-Fakun during the eleventh century AH, seventeenth century AD. One of Abdel Hamid's other ancestors, his grandfather to his father: Sheikh Mekki Ben Badis, who was a famous judge in the city of Constantine and a member of the General Council and the Municipal Council, has occupied a respectable position with the population after the financial assistance provided to them, especially during the famine that befell the country between 1862 - 1868  Elected to the Counsel in Algiers and Paris, he was awarded the Medal by Napoleon III (President of France from 1848-1852 and then Emperor from 1852-1870), and his uncle, Hamida Ben Badis, the famous vicar of Constantine in the late nineteenth century.  Of his fellow deputies in 1891  In a transcript he wrote down the kinds of grievances and persecutions suffered by the Algerian people in the late nineteenth century AD from the colonial administration and the European settlers who took the fertile land negatively from the Algerians and left them to poverty and hunger, and presented it to a French senator who came to Algeria from  In order to search and investigate the conditions in order to submit it in turn to the French government and members of the French Parliament in Paris, on April 10, 1891, ie, after the birth of Abdelhamid Ben Badis only about three years. A section of the Ibn Badis family were senior leaders with Prince Abdelkader Jazairi and their occupying family in 1263/1847 and sent to France, and imprisoned in Paris. They were released with Prince Abdelkader Jazairi in 1852 and were exiled to the Levant under the auspices of Prince Abdul  Algerian Kader in several areas in Lebanon, Palestine, Syria and the vast majority are located in Jordan, Irbid, northern Jordan Valley His birth and upbringing Is Abdul Hamid bin Mohammed Mustafa bin Makki bin Mohammed Kahol bin Haj Ali Nouri bin Mohammed bin Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman bin Barakat bin Abdul Rahman bin Badis Senhaji.  He was born in Constantine, the capital of the Algerian east, on Friday, 4 December 1889 at 4 pm Abdelhamid was the eldest son of his parents. His mother is: Mrs. Zahira bint Mohamed bin Abdeljalil Benjelloul from a famous family of Constantine for at least four centuries, and the family of "Ibn Djelloul of the tribe" Beni Maaf "famous in the Aures Mountains, one of its members moved to Constantine in  The Ottoman Turks reigned there and married a Turkish princess, the grandmother of the family (Ibn Jalloul), who was married by Muhammad ibn Mustafa ibn Badis (deceased 1951), father of Abdulhamid, his father was a financial representative, a member of the Supreme Council, Bash Agha of Algeria, and a municipal councilor.  Constantine and his scarf France with the Order of Honor (French: Chevalier de la Légi  He was credited with saving the people of the Oued Zanati region from the genocide in 1945 following the famous May 8 incidents. He also worked in agriculture.  And trade, and enriched them. His father was a righteous man who loved him and was branded with grief.  Abdul Hamid bin Badis himself admits thanks to his father since he saw the light and he said this in a ceremony to seal the interpretation of the Koran in 1938, before a large crowd of invitees and then published in the magazine Al-Shehab: The credit is due first to my father, who raised me a good education and directed me a valid destination,  Satisfied me the way I follow science and impregnated I want, and Barani shares and Hammani of small and big, and enough cost me life ... Vlkranh Balasani and your tongue, and I can thank. ». As for his six siblings, Zubair was born, Arab, Salim, Abdul Malik, Mahmoud and Abdul Haq.His sister was Nafisa and Batool.His brother Zubair was a lawyer and a press publisher in the French-language newspaper Echo Indigène (1933-1934).  Professor Abdul Haq was also a student at the hands of his brother Sheikh Abdul Hamid in the Green Mosque and received a certificate of civil qualification in June 1940 at the hands of Sheikh Mubarak Milli after the death of Sheikh Ben Badis about two months. His request for justice He started learning life in the Qur'anic book on Sheikh Muhammad Al-Madasi until he memorized the Qur'aan. Abdul Hamid bin Badis, the son of thirteen years old, was saved by Sheikh Mohammed Al-Madasi and he was very impressed with the quality of his memorization and his good behavior.  The great two or three years, and received the principles of Arab and Islamic sciences at the mosque of Sidi Abdelmoumen on the sheikhs evacuated from the most famous Galilee scientist Sheikh Hamdan Alonissi Constantine starting in 1903, one of the first elders who had a good impact in his religious direction, and never forget the commandment of this Sheikh  To him: "I study science for science, not for  But promised him not to bring French government jobs closer. At the Zitouna Mosque in Tunis In the year (1327 AH - 1908 AD) joined Sheikh Abdul Hamid Mosque Zaytuna, took from a group of senior scientists evacuated, and the forefront of the leader of the intellectual and reform in the Tunisian capital «Mohammed Nakhli Kairouani» deceased: (1342 AH - 1923),  And Sheikh Mohammed Taher bin Ashour (d.1393 - 1973), as well as other educators of the sheikhs who had an impact on the growth of his readiness, and pledged guidance and training, such as Bashir zero, Saad Ayyad Staifi, Mohammed bin judge and others, has allowed him these  During this period, we learned about the modern sciences and the religious reforms in the Arab and Islamic countries  In Egypt, in Syria and elsewhere, the scientific environment and the social environment, and the ongoing crises of the men of science and reform, have had a profound impact on the formation of his personality and his method of life . In Medina In 1913, Imam Abdul-Hamid bin Badis traveled on a long trip to the Hijaz and then to Syria and Egypt, to perform the pilgrimage and to visit some capitals to contact their scholars and see what is going on.  After performing the rituals of Hajj and Umrah, he visited Medina and stayed there. During his stay, he met his first teacher, who studied in Constantine (Algerian Sheikh Hamdan Alonissi), who emigrated to Medina and lived there. He met some scholars and his companions, such as:  Hussein Ahmed al-Faydh Abadi al-Hindi, and Sheikh Jalil Tunisian minister, and delivered a lesson in the presence of the Prophet's Mosque, they were very impressed by what attracted attention.  In the meantime, he expressed his desire to remain in the city of Medina next to his teacher (His Eminence Sheikh Galilee Onisi) welcomed the idea and the desire of the professor, because of the known conditions of his country.  However, Sheikh Hussein Ahmad al-Hindi did not agree with him, but advised him to return to his homeland to serve his country and try to save it from what is in it, including the firmness, determination and goodness, saying to him: Go back to your homeland, my son, he needs you and your likes.  They sing about you, but they are at home and at the level of patriotism and your knowledge are few because of the French barbarism that fights religion, language and the service of Islam in your country.  The young man Abdul Hamid bin Badis convinced the view of this Sheikh Galilee, and accepted his advice and decided to return home.  During his time in Medina, he met a young Algerian man of his age, a scholar and writer, Sheikh al-Jalil al-Jalil Muhammad al-Bashir Brahimi, who lived with his parents in Medina, and stayed with him for a period of mutual knowledge and dialogue together on the reform plan, which must be adjusted to address the deteriorating situation in  Algeria, and they agreed to serve their country when they returned to it. "Sheikh Jalil, the great Imam Muhammad al-Bashir Brahimi, stated that they did not separate the duration of Imam Abdul Hamid bin Badis stay in Hijaz, they spent the whole night analyzing the situation of Algeria, and determine the conditions and means of its renaissance." After leaving the Hijaz, Ibn Badis visited the Levant and Egypt and met with men of science, literature and flags of the Salafi Da'wa. He visited Al-Azhar and contacted Sheikh Bakhit Al-Mutai with a message from Sheikh Al-Wanis. Dr. Abdul Aziz Filali collected the most aspects of this period of the life of Sheikh Ben Badis in a book he called: "New documents on hidden aspects in the life of Imam Abdul Hamid bin Badis study" Let him review for more . Back to Algeria Ibn Badis returned to Algeria in 1913 and settled in the city of Constantine, and embarked on the educational work that was designed, he began lessons for young people and then for adults, and the mosque was the main center of his activities, and then crystallized the idea of the establishment of the Association of Muslim Scholars, and many interests not satisfied or convinced  In 1925, the slogan “Al-Haq above everybody and the homeland above all” was issued and stopped after the 18th issue. He issued the weekly Al-Shehab in which he broadcast his views on reform, and continued.  As a newspaper until 1929 and then the newspapers of insights and Sunnah and Sharia and Sarat and u  Imam Malik see her saying the imam of Dar al-Hijrah: "This does not fit another nation, but as a reconciliation with the first." Establishment of the Association of Algerian Muslim Scholars Factors affecting the personality of Ibn Badi Abdel Hamid died on the night of Tuesday the eighth of Rabi I in 1359 AH corresponding to 16 April 1940 AD in his hometown of Constantine, which he took in his life center of his educational, reformist, political and journalist.  On the day of his funeral to the last place of the city of Constantine went out on her father's entire farewell farewell, as well as many delegations from various parts of the Algerian country to participate in the funeral funeral and buried in the private cemetery of Badis in the city of Constantine. In his memorial service, Arab Cheikh Tebsi said, "Sheikh Abdelhamid Ben Badis was in his jihad and his actions is the whole of Algeria. After his death, Algeria will strive to be Sheikh Abdel Hamid Ben Badis.