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The Sheikhdom of Sijjada Bakria and the Descendants of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq (may Allah be pleased with him) in the Arab and Islamic World has been following the unjust aggression of the Israeli occupation authorities and their continuous threats against the first qibla, the site of Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to Heaven (may Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him), and the birthplace of the Abrahamic faiths.

But they have not stopped with this. Rather, they have declared over and over again their intent to make the holy city of Jerusalem into the capital of the occupying power, in ...

In execution and pursuance of the decisions of His Eminence the Sheikh of Sijjada Bakria for the year 2017 AD (Decision Nos. 1, 2, and 3), and the decisions of the Sijjada Bakria Lineage Verification and Authentication Committee for the year 2017 AD (Decision Nos. 1 and 2), the General Secretariat of the Sheikhdom of Sijjada Bakria has begun issuing lineage certificates for the approximately 90 families and tribes, along with their many descendants, whose lineage has been authenticated at Sijjada Bakria. 

Egypt’s Ministry of Culture has posthumously honored Al-Taher Makki Al-Mateni Al-Bakri, who died at the age of 93 on April 5, 2017, with Egypt’s highest literary prize – the Nile Award.

Dr. Al-Taher Ahmad Makki Al-Mateni Al-Bakri As-Siddiqi Al-Qurashi was from the “El Mreijat” family and a descendant of the Al-Masaeed Tribe in the villages of Arab Al-Mataenah in Markaz Esna in the Governorate of Luxor in Upper Egypt. His tribe, Al-Mataenah, belongs to Arab Qassas Bani Qassa, the descendants of Muhammad Bin Mutaweh Al-Bakri, who was of the descendants of Talha Bin Abdullah Bin Abdel-Rahman Bin Abi Bakr ...

In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful

“In the bounty of Allah and in His mercy – in that let them rejoice; it is better than what they accumulate.”

Today is a day of joy, a day of compassion, a day of having bonds and communications, a bond between the relatives, and communication among those who are connected by agnation at ease and hardship in every land where the name of Allah is recited. ...

My family, my countrymen and my dears, the descendants of the first Muslim Khalifa, Abu Bakr al-Siddiq may Allah be pleased with him, from Jakarta in the East to Tangier in the West, and from Istanbul in the North to Kenya in the South, Greetings, ...

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