al-ʿAṭṭās, Aḥmad b. Ḥasan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Arai, Kazuhiro
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Aḥmad b. Ḥasan a l-ʿAṭṭās (1257-1334/1841-1916) was a prominent ʿālim and manṣab of the al-ʿAṭṭās family (a branch of Ḥaḍramī sāda ). Born in Ḥurayḍa, a village in Wādī ʿAmd and the family centre in Ḥaḍramawt, he became blind in infancy and was nicknamed al-Baṣīr , "the Seer." His education began in Ḥaḍramawt, though his most famous teacher was Aḥmad b. Zaynī Daḥlān, under whom he studied while in Mecca from 1274 to 1281/1858 to 1864-5. The correspondence between the teacher and the disciple