Ba 'Alawi people belong to a group of Hadhrami Sayyid families and social groups originating in Hadhramaut in the Arabian Peninsula, the Yemen republic in particular.
The word Ba 'Alawi means descendants of Alwi.
The Hadhramis use the prefex "Baa" to mean the clan of.
Ba'alwi sada are descendants of the Islamic Prophet "Muhammad" through Alwi bin Ubaidillah bin Ahmad al-Muhajir.
He migrated from Iraq due to political instability and settled in Huseisah, a village between Sey'un and Tarim in Yemen and that was in the year 318 A.H.