Intro
In 2023, a man maned Sharif Odeh is working as the Ameer of the Ahmadiyya Jamaat in Kababir and most likely all of Egypt, Syria, Israel and Palestine. Most of the Odeh family that had converted has left by 2023.
Per Hassan Bin Mahmood Odeh, the Odeh family had fled village of Ni’lin near Jerusalem (in the mid-1800’s). Hassan Bin Mahmood Odeh, claims that his maternal grandfather was the first ever convert to Qadianism (in 1928), his paternal grandfather was the second, Sharif Odeh claims the same. They seem to have been displaced by the British Government and were given land in Kababir, at the same time, the Ahmadi Maulvi Jalal ud Din Shams had just fled Syria and seems to have also landed in Kababir. By 1928, the majority of the Odeh family had converted to Ahmadiyya.
By 1970, barely 600 people lived in the small area of Kababir. This mass conversion seems strange, since the Odeh family had moved from Bethlehem (technically a village of Ni’lin near Jerusalem)(See Ray Register’s Thesis of 1970). Jalal-ud-Din Shams had fled Syria in 1928 (wherein he was allegedly stabbed) and found a home in Kababir? It’s all very confusing and purposely so. In 1970, a man named Abdullah Odeh was working as the secretary of the Ahmadiyya Mosque in Kababir. He mentions another member of the Odeh family (Falah Al-Din Odeh) as working as the “headmaster” of the school, it’s the only private Muslim school in all of Israel in 1970 in the late 1960’s.
Hassan Bin Mahmood Odeh was in Kababir in the early 1980’s and explains how the majority of the Odeh family had moved away islamic values. Hassan Bin Mahmood Odeh moved to the UK in 1986 and began officially working for the Khalifa at the Arabic Affairs desk. By 1989, he famously quit Ahmadiyya. Both of his brothers (Ahmad and Salih, however, their father refused to quit Ahmadiyya) also quit as well as a few cousins like Ikrima Najami and Abu Muhammad (who apologized in 2022 for persecuting Hassan Odeh for 30 years).
In 1998, Mirza Tahir Ahmad was openly calling the entire jamaat at Kababir as rebellious an islamic, he also mentioned how the Ameer wasn’t listening to him or the Murrabi. This propelled Sharif Odeh to the top spot as the new Ameer. He listened so good that Mirza Tahir Ahmad added him to the Khilafat Committee.
In 2000, Hassan Bin Mahmood Odeh (who is an ex-Ahmadi from Kababir, Haifa, Israel) wrote a book vs. Ahmadiyya. He was born in 1955, he is a second generation Ahmadi from Kababir. Another ex-Ahmadi (Ikrima Najami) also claims to be from the lineage.
After 2020, we have spotted Aymen Odeh, in a few instances. We have catalogued how some people from the Odeh family have famously left Ahmadiyya herein.
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