Nasir Al-Din Al-Siddiqi
Nasir Al-Din Al-Siddiqi (1): The righteous sheikh and scholar Nasir Al-Din Bin Jamaluddin Bin Thahir Al-Din Bin Ahmed Bin Al-Husayn Bin Al-Jamal Ahmed Bin Shihab Al-Din Umar Al-Bakri Al-Siddiqi Al-Suhrawardi Al-Nusarwi of Gujarat, India, was one of India’s most well-known sheikhs as well as a descendant of Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq. He was born and raised in Gujarat and assumed leadership of the tariqah of Sheikh Sharaf Al-Din Al-Asawli Al-Gujarati, who inherited it from Sheikh Nitham Al-Din; through Sheikh Ali Al-Rifa’i; through Rukn Al-Din Al-Rifa’i; through Shams Al-Din; through Qutb Al-Din Abi Al-Hasan Ali Bin Abdel-Rahim; through his brother, Shams Al-Din Muhammad; through his paternal uncle, Muhi Al-Din Ibrahim Bin Ali Al-‘Azab; through his paternal uncle, Muhathab Al-Din Abdel-Rahim; through his brother, Sayf Al-Din Ali Bin Uthman Al-Bata’ihi; through Sayyid Ahmed Al-Kabir Al-Qutb Al-Rifa’i.
Nasir Al-Din Al-Siddiqi died in 851 AH.
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) Nuzhat Al-Khawatir wa Bahjat Al-Sami’ wal-Nawathir 3/ 284