حضرة ابو بكر سلطنتیں

Nur Al-Din Ali Bin Ya’qub Al-Bakri ⁽¹⁾: Abu Al-Hasan Nur Al-Din Ali Bin Ya’qub Bin Jibril Bin Abdul-Muhsin Bin Yahya Bin Al-Hasan Bin Musa Bin Yahya Bin Ya’qub Bin Najm Al-Din Bin Esa Abi Al-Ruh Bin Sha’ban Bin Esa Bin Dawud Bin Muhammad Bin Nuh Bin Talha Bin Abdullah Bin Abdel-Rahman Bin Abi Bakr Al-Siddiq of Egypt was a Shafi’i sheikh, mufti, imam, and ascetic from the tribe of Quraysh and a descendant of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq. He was born in 673 AH (1274 AD).

Nur Al-Din taught the musnad of Al-Shafi’i to Wazirah Bint Al-Manja. He resided in Egypt and was a jurist there. He attacked the Copts in one of their churches after they borrowed a lamp from the Mosque of ‘Amr Bin Al-‘As, so they complained about him to the Sultan.

Later, while Nur Al-Din was delivering a sermon before the Sultan, he heard him say: “The best jihad is a word of truth to a tyrannical ruler,” whereupon the Sultan asked: “Am I tyrant?” In response, Nur Al-Din said: “Yes, you have empowered the Copts over the Muslims.”

Upon hearing this, the Sultan had Nur Al-Din removed and ordered his tongue to be cut off. He then settled on banishing him from Cairo. Nur Al-Din thus left to Dahrut, Upper Egypt, the homeland of his ancestors. He died there in 724 AH (1324 AD) and was buried in Cairo.

Nur Al-Din was among those who refuted Sheikh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. Some of the state’s prominent figures wanted him killed, so he fled and hid with Ibn Taymiyyah while he was residing in Egypt. He authored various works, including Kitab Tafsir Al-Fatihah.

In Muharram of 714 AH, an incident took place between Nur Al-Din and the Christians, who had gathered in the Hanging Church of Cairo after borrowing some lamps from the noble Mosque of ‘Amr Bin Al-‘As. Sheikh Nur Al-Din Ali Al-Bakri disapproved of this and took a group of men from his tribe (the Bakris) and others and headed to the Hanging Church, where they attacked and injured the Christians gathered there. Following this, Sheikh Nur Al-Din Al-Bakri came close to being killed under orders of the reigning Sultan, but Allah SWT spared him this fate.

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

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