AbuBakr Lineages

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Here you can find the biographies of those who are among the most prominent men and women from the lineage of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq (RA) in the many time periods and places they spread to and lived in. They have been arranged according to the centuries they lived in based on the Islamic calendar.

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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.