Mansur Bin Abi Bakr Al-Sinjari
Mansur Bin Abi Bakr Al-Sinjari (1): Mansur Bin Abi Bakr Bin Mansur Bin Nasr Bin Abi Bakr Bin Mansur Al-Sinjari of Nahs (a village in Sinjar, Iraq) was a Hanafi judge, writer, and poet whose lineage was linked to that of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may Allah be pleased with him. He was appointed Judge of Amida and taught in Harput. He authored a collection of poetry comprised of 14,000 verses and used to memorize Al-Lubab fi Sharh Al-Quduri. He is believed to have lived during the seventh century after the Hijrah (2).
Source: Kitab Al-Sulala Al-Bakria As-Siddiqia – Part II, by Ahmed Farghal Al-De’abassi Al-Bakri
Date of Publication
1 Ramadan 1438 AH / May 26, 2017 AD
(1) Sullam Al-Wusul ila Tabaqat Al-Fuhul 3/ 349, Al-Jawaher Al-Mudiya fi Tabaqat Al-Hanafiyah (2/ 184 and 351)
(2) The reasoning behind this estimate is that Mansur Bin Abi Bakr Al-Sinjari used to memorize Al-Lubab fi Sharh Al-Quduri, the author of which was Judge Jamal Al-Din Al-Mutahar Bin Al-Husayn Bin Saad Bin Ali Bin Bandar Al-Yazdi, who was also known as Abu Saad, the Hanafi jurist who resided in Cairo and died in in Qus, Upper Egypt in 591 AH (See: Mu’jam Al-Mu’allifin 12/ 294, Hidayat-ul-Arifeen 2/ 462, Al-A’lam, by Al-Zarkali).
There is also another book called Al-Lubab fi Sharh Al-Quduri, which was authored by Abdul-Ghani Bin Talib Bin Hamada Bin Ibrahim Bin Sulaiman Al-Ghunaimi Al-Dimashqi Al-Hanafi (also known as Al-Maydani), who died in 1298 AH (1881 AD). (See: Mu’jam Al-Mu’allifin 5/ 274-275, Al-A’lam, by Al-Zarkali 4/ 33.)
I do not believe, however, that Al-Maydani’s book is the one mentioned in Al-Sinjari’s biography, because this biography of Al-Sinjari appeared in Al-Jawaher Al-Mudiya fi Tabaqat Al-Hanafiyah, by Abdul-Qadir Muhiyudin Bin Muhammad Bin Nasrallah Al-Qurashi Al-Hanafi, who died at the end of the eighth century after the Hijrah in 775 AH, and lived several centuries before Abdul-Ghani Al-Maydani. Based on that, we believe that the more correct view is that the Lubab mentioned is the Lubab of Al-Yazdi, the judge who died near the end of the sixth century after the Hijrah in the year 591 AH. This led us to estimate that Mansur Al-Sinjari lived during the seventh century after the Hijrah—and Allah knows best what the truth is.