Author of the book Safinah was a great scholar who was very prominent, namely Sheikh Salim bin Abdullah bin Saad bin SumairAl-Hadrami. He is an expert in fiqh and tasawwuf were bermadzhab Shafi. In addition, he is an educator who is known to be very sincere and patient, a qodhi fair and ascetic to the world, even beliav also a politician and military observers Islamic countries. He was born in the village of Dziasbuh, a village in the Hadramaut region of Yemen, known as the center of the birth of the great scholars in various fields of religious sciences