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as_salaamu "alaykum

There is a Family that has now produced 43 generations of learned men, one son after the other, and all of them great scholars of Islaam. They are linked ( by blood or as advisers ) in one way or another to all the Khulafaa' (Khaliyfs) in the history of the whole of Islaam since the death of the messenger of ALLAAH (A*)(S+). This family has produced more than 500 000 scholars over the one thousand four hundred years of Islamic history. It is said that this family is the "itrah (stem) of 'ahlu_l_bayt ( family of the Prophet's house) which generated the different branches. We are speaking about the " Al-Qurashiy Al-Amjadiy " Family. The last great well known scholar of this family was al-bahru_l_muhaqqaq and al_"ilmu_l_mudaqqaq and shaykhu_l_"ilm and shaykhu_l_islaam and muftiy al_''arba"u_l_'a'immah maulanaa and mullaa as_sayyid Abu Bakr Effendi Al_khushnaawiy Al-qurashiy Al-Amjadiy (1814 - 1880). He was the adviser to the last absolute Sultans and Khaliyfs of The Ottoman State or Empire i.e. Sultans and Khaliyfs Abdul-Majid, Abdul-Aziz and Abdul-Hamid.

Here is a short history of one great ancestor (12th grandson of Zayd ibn Ali the grandson of imaam Husayn grandson of the Prophet (S+) and the 25th ancestor of the above mentioned Shaykh of Knowledge.


Abu-NaSr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan Al-Ghaaziy Al-Qurashiy Al-Amjadiy( c.1057 - c.1134 )

abuw naSr al_amiyr sulaymaan
was
one of the most extraordinary and exemplary men who ever lived.
He was a most gracious philanthropist,
a supreme commander,
and by the grace of ALLAAH (A*), a most successful man in everything he set out to do.
He was a great benefactor and promoter of knowledge and education
and above all
he was a man who, like his ancestors, loved and served The Lord
with all his heart, soul and mind.

To
the twenty-eight
generations of his learned descendants,
one son after the other,
over the next nine hundred years,
he was known as the father of help,
the man of good deeds, meritorious actions,
and
the shepherd of the flock of his future generations.

According to the family oral history, Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan was a direct descendant and inheritor of King Sulaymaan (Soloman), son of King Daawud (David) Kings of Judah through the line of Yuwsuf (Joseph) and Maryam (Mary), the mother of "Iysaa (Jesus).
It was said that he was the prophesied father (abu) of the Branch (naSr) which would bear fruit from the offshoot of Yassaa (Jessie), the father of King Daawud (David).
Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan was also the twelfth direct descendant of Zayd, the son of "Aliy Zaynul_"aabidiyn (grandson of FaaTimah(P+), (daughter of the prophet Muhammad (S+) and Haydaan,the highborn captured princess of India.
Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan was also regarded as one of the six Mu'lifiyn (Thousanders) who was to be born or because he was born at the dawn or rise of the next millenium.
It has been said that the seventh mu'allif (Thousander) would be a direct descendant of Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan.
The other Thousanders were Aadam (Adam (P+), Nuwh (Noah (P+), 'IbraaHiym (Abraham (P+), Daawud (David (P+) and"Iysaa (Jesus (P+) to whom Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan were all related genealogically.

Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan, because of his family inheritance, his skillful business foresight and his spoils of war acquisitions became an immensely wealthy man. In fact he became one of the wealthiest individuals of his day. It has been estimated that his personal fixed property alone amounted to over one hundred square kilometers. His net worth today would amount to billions of dollars.
Despite his enormous wealth, Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan lived a remarkably simple life and was very rarely seen in public. It was his usual practice to spend most of his time in isolation worshipping his Lord. All who met him were struck by his simplicity and were sworn to uphold his hidden family identity.

One day, Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan, called for an appointed day of assembly of the tribal Elders, other prominent Leaders, Scholars and Learned men. He told them that the time had come for him to give up all his wealth and use it all for the lofty cause of his Lord. He told them that all the moneys and proceeds of the lands must all go for the upkeep of the school that he had created and build in Siysaawah (near Shahrizur, Arbil or Sulaymaniyah in Iraq).

After having stated all the conditions of the school which among others are that-
- it shall be a school that shall be open to all who wish to learn.
-it shall be a school in which all who wish to learn shall have the right to free education in it.
-it shall be a school in which all who wish to learn shall have the right to free food from it.
-and it shall be a school in which all who wish to learn shall have the right to free lodging in it.
Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan stated that he had placed everything into the hands of Abul_muhsin Mullaa "Uthmaan Haamid
whom he said was the most upright and learned of his sons
and that he shall be responsible for the upkeep of the school and for the overseeing of the execution of all the stipulated conditions.

Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan also stated that after Abul_muhsin Mullaa "Uthmaan Haamid had passed on, the school shall be placed in the charge of the most upright and learned of the sons of his sons and so forth. And if it were to happen that they should become degenerate then it shall be placed in the charge of the sons of his daughters and so forth. And if it were also to happen that they were to go from bad to worse then it shall go to any of the most upright and learned of his scattered descendants who took up the course to uphold this eternal foundation and endowment .And if they should die out then it shall go on to the daughters of his daughters .And if they should die out it then it shall pass on to the nearest of the tribe and then to humanity.

In the end he prayed and sought refuge in The All_Mighty Creator ,Preserver and Destroyer, who sees to the end of time,
to protect his descendants from gradual corrosion and ultimate obliteration.

Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan had everything written down and dated Wednesday, 23 Muharram 523A.H (corresponding to 23 January 1129).
Then signed it
Abu-Nasr Al-Amiyr Sulaymaan Al-Gaaziy Al-Qurashiy Al-Amjadiy (The poor man in need of The All_Mighty).
Inshaa allaah in coming posts I shall tell you more about the school of this family that lasted over seven hundred years until it was finally destroyed in 1831 and the family again had to flee to another part of the world and with it soon to be demise of the visible Khilaafah.

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there is also an Abu Bakr Efendi who was sent to South Africa by the Ottamans way back under british rule. he was sent to assist the british in religious matters because of trouble between the shafis & hanafis. he was however a shafi but could only give hanafi verdict because the qadha system of the ottamans was based on the hanafi madhab.

this family is similar to ba Alawi family who also have thousands of ulama in this present day. you always find a few of them in the top ranking ulama of the world especialy in the shafi madhab. they took islam to 1/3 of the total muslim population & like you said a chain of scholarship from father to son since the nubuwa of Rasulullah SAWS as they are also ahlul bayt.

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there is also an Abu Bakr Efendi who was sent to South Africa by the Ottamans way back under british rule. he was sent to assist the british in religious matters because of trouble between the shafis & hanafis. he was however a shafi but could only give hanafi verdict because the qadha system of the ottamans was based on the hanafi madhab.

this family is similar to ba Alawi family who also have thousands of ulama in this present day. you always find a few of them in the top ranking ulama of the world especialy in the shafi madhab. they took islam to 1/3 of the total muslim population & like you said a chain of scholarship from father to son since the nubuwa of Rasulullah SAWS as they are also ahlul bayt.

This Abu Bakr Effendi you have mentioned is the same as the (al-bahru_l_muhaqqaq and al_"ilmu_l_mudaqqaq and shaykhu_l_"ilm and shaykhu_l_islaam and muftiy al_''arba"u_l_'a'immah maulanaa and mullaa as_sayyid Abu Bakr Effendi Al_khushnaawiy Al-qurashiy Al-Amjadiy (1814 - 1880).)

About 20 books and theses have been written about his life during the last 20 years (one book over 500 pages). In fact I am advising a number of scholars and historians who are continuing doing research about this family. The Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan and the Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu (whom I have personally met) and others are active busy making known this ancient family again. Abu Bakr was not a Shaafi" but a Muftiy of all four Imaams and thus he could teach any madhhab. He wrote the first printed book of note in the Afrikaans language using the Arabic script which he designed to fit with the language. This book consisting of 354 pages called bayaanu_d_diyn (Explanation of the Religion of Islaam) was signed by the last absolute Sultan and Khaliyf Abdul-Hamid of The Ottoman State in October 1877. 1500 copies of the book were printed as a gift to the Muslims of South Africa. This book was translated into English by a Dutch Islamic scholar in 1960 and now read all over the world. I have in my possession the original handwritten manuscript of the bayaanu_d_diyn and am in the process of scanning it and making it available to other scholars inshaa allaah. The website is http://www.abubakreffendi.net.

Also as a matter of note it was Abu bakr Effendi who ordered the Governor of Juda (Makkah) to put Sayyid Abdullah Alawiy in charge of the pilgrims during the late 1870's when he was in Makkah at the time. I also have an original letter of Sayyid Abdullah Alawiy which he wrote to Abu Bakr Effendi on the 17 Shawwaal 1297 (1880). The fingerprints of the Sayyid is still clearly visible on the letter.

I will relate much more information. Hope others can contribute to the knowledge inshaa allaah

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there is also an Abu Bakr Efendi who was sent to South Africa by the Ottamans way back under british rule. he was sent to assist the british in religious matters because of trouble between the shafis & hanafis.
this family is similar to ba Alawi family who also have thousands of ulama in this present day. you always find a few of them in the top ranking ulama of the world especialy in the shafi madhab. they took islam to 1/3 of the total muslim population & like you said a chain of scholarship from father to son since the nubuwa of Rasulullah SAWS as they are also ahlul bayt.

During the last ten years members of The Turkish Government (including Prime Minister Erdogan and Foreign Minister Davutoglu) came to South Africa.One of the first things they requested was to go to the grave of The Shaykh of Knowledge As_sayyid Abdullaah Abu Bakr Effendi al-khushnaawiy al-Qurashiy al-Amjadiy (1814-1880). This was reported in both the South African and Turkish Media.The Shaykh of Knowledge is buried on the world famous Signal Hill that is the abdomen part of a mountain shaped in the form of a crouching lion which lies next to The World Renowned Table Mountain (now voted by humanity and declared a seventh wonder of the world and said to be the most wondrous mountain in the world). The history of The Shaykh of Knowledge, his ancestry and his coming to South Africa has been described by historians and other writers amazing and crying out to be written. It all started like this when the Muslims of The Colony of The Cape of Good Hope wrote a letter to the Governor as follows.

A unique historical event
On 16 April 1862
The Muslims of The Colony of The Cape of Good Hope
Cape Town
South Africa
wrote a letter to the Governor as follows.
"As it is well known, 85 years ago some of Javenese islands fell into the hands of
The Dutch Government.
Our fathers were all tied up in chains, enslaved and brought here.
We were afflicted with suffering and problems;
the Honourable British Empire set us free from the slavery of the previous government
and gave us our liberty.
For that, we thank the empire for it's help and grace, and in case of necessity,
it is incumbent upon us to sacrifice ourselves for it's cause.
We once again express our thanks and gratitude.
It is obvious that each nation has to know and apply it's religion and way of life and practice.
But
we forgot our language of origin, the language of Javenese,
the books and treatises are all written in that language and therefore
we obviously need a teacher to read and teach them.
Since the situation is like this
it is requested to bring
a scholar-teacher from a Muslim country
in order to teach and train us."

16 Shawwaal 1278 (16 April 1862)
Signature
Muslim people
Cape of Good Hope

Omar Lutfi " A travelogue of my journey to The Cape of Good hope. p.7.
translated by Yusuf Kavakci

The Governor replied to the Muslims that it was not an easy matter for him and it had to be referred to Her Majesty Queen Victoria for Approval. ... The Governor's letter with the petition of the Muslims arrived at Queen Victoria's Government and it was discussed in parliament and recommendations were made. They then sent The letter to The Khalif of The Sunni World Sultan Abdul Aziz and The High Council of Islamic Affairs..................... It was Decided that the best person for the undertaking would be The Shaykh of Knowledge and The Shaykh of Islaam Abu Bakr Effendi(as he is mostly known). On 01 October 1862 The Shaykh of Knowledge left The Ottoman Islamic Khilafat in a ship from Istanbul bound for The Western World (it has been said that it was the first time in history that such an event took place between a Muslim government and a Christian one).
The Shaykh of Knowledge arrived in London on the 15 October 1862 and later at the palace of Queen Victoria where he met Lord Chamberlain who was waiting for his arrival. After spending two months there he left on 01 December 1862 for The Colony of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape Town, South Africa.
The Shaykh of Knowledge arrived in Cape Town in the early morning of the 13th of January 1863 where soon all the prominent Imams of the Muslims came to welcome him. A photograph of the Shaykh with all the prominent Muslims leaders was taken and believed to be the oldest photograph of Muslims in South Africa if not its oldest dated in the country. The Shaykh of Knowledge did not wait long and within one month he set up a school of higher learning and had over 300 students out of a population of 17000. The first reform he did was to put the women back into hijaab and then selected among the most intelligent ones among his students whom he then trained as teachers.He opened the first school of hifz and Arabic in South Africa as well as the first Muslim girls school and so forth. He trained many learned men and set up schools in many parts of Southern Africa. All this while he was learning to master the local language and English. The Shaykh also wrote the first book in the local language(354 pages) which was a mixture of Dutch and a smack of other languages which became Afrikaans, an Official language of South Africa. After the death of The Sultan and Khaliyf Abdul-Aziz, the Shaykh went back to Istanbul (1876) and one of the first things the new Sultan(Khalif Sultan Abdul-Hamid) did was to sign the printing of his book called The Explanation of the Diyn(Bayaanuddiyn). 1500 copies of the book was printed and it was translated in 1960 into English by a Dutch Scholar.It is said The Shaykh of Knowledge had more than 10 000 students all over the world. (Including Muhammad Dollie who went to England and found the first or one of the first Masjids there).
The Shaykh was born in Shahrizur Iraq in 1814 and started his education under his father aged two and had memorized the Quran by six. He studied first in the school set up in 523 Hijra or 1129 ACE. by his 25th ancestor known as abuw naSr al-amiyr sulaymaan al-ghaaziy al-qurashiy al-amjadiy. All the ancestors of the Shaykh were great scholars and many were advisers to those who had ruled as Khaliyfs of the Muslims . The family always lived and kept a low profile so as not to make known their full identity. As so many of the forefathers were killed beheaded and crucified. They were the secret family who went into hiding of amiyr Zayd ibn Ali ( son of Imam Zaynul Abidiyn son of amiyr Husayn grandson of the Prophet (S+).
Zayd ibn Ali was killed ,beheaded and crucified in a battle similar to the battle of Badr by the Umayyad forces.His body (skeleton) remained on the cross naked for four years and when the next Umayyad Khaliyf took over, he ordered that the skeleton be taken down burnt and then scattered to the wind over the Euphrates River. Amiyr Zayd ibn Ali's son yahyaa then took up the imaamat after him and was also killed , beheaded and crucified and his body remained on the cross for six years... (then imaam Ja'far aS-Saadiq handed it over to muhammad nafsuzzakiyyah and his brother Ibraahiym) muhammad was also killed ,beheaded and crucified. Then Ibraahiym took it up and he too was killed , beheaded and crucified. Like that the this branch (or stem of the Haashemites of Ahlul-bayt were despised by the people.Then the standard of imaamat and amiyrship passed on to "iysaa ibn Zayd ibn Ali(the forth son of Zayd ibn Ali). All over the world the government pursued Imaam amiyr "iysaa. After imaam amiyr "iysaa his son imaam amiyr ahmad took up the standard and went into hiding. He is known to history as ahmad al-mukhtafiy(the hidden). Then he fled to the land of Khashnaw(at sisawa in Iraq among the Kurds) and there he and his descendants kept a low profile and tried to attract no attention.It has also been reported that the ancestors of the Khashnaaw was give a ring by imaam zaynul Aabidiyn to rule over the territory of Khashnaaw. About 300 years later the family again surfaced when the twelfth descendant of Zayd ibn Ali arose by the name of the above mentioned abuw naSr al-amiyr sulaymaan al-ghaaziy al-qurashiy al-amjadiy and he founded his school.

This is a brief outline of the Family Tree of The shaykh of Knowledge

shaykh-ul-ilm and shaykhu-l-islaam -> abd-ullaah abuw-bakr umar muSTafaa sulaymaan abd-ullaah ahmad sulaymaan aliy as-sajjaad husayn aliy imraan shayba amru-l-ulaa al-mughiyra zayd

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Yet, Islam isnt that much spead in the southern Africa like Christianity
You guys need to do daawa in Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and Namibia

The last generation did their job its up to you to win the hearts and minds of African hinterland where Christians dared to go

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there is also an Abu Bakr Efendi who was sent to South Africa by the Ottamans way back under british rule. he was sent to assist the british in religious matters because of trouble between the shafis & hanafis.

this family is similar to ba Alawi family who also have thousands of ulama in this present day. you always find a few of them in the top ranking ulama of the world especialy in the shafi madhab. they took islam to 1/3 of the total muslim population & like you said a chain of scholarship from father to son since the nubuwa of Rasulullah SAWS as they are also ahlul bayt.

Yet, Islam isnt that much spead in the southern Africa like Christianity
You guys need to do daawa in Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Angola and Namibia

The last generation did their job its up to you to win the hearts and minds of African hinterland where Christians dared to go

In the Turkish introduction to his first printed Arabic-Afrikaans book, the Shaykh of Knowledge Abu Bakr Effendi writes;


The majority of the Muslim inhabitants of Cape Town, Dalgoa Bay and the neighbouring towns were not conversant with the Arabic language, exceptions being a very few who were Arab immigrants and those who were of Arab descent. I realized that in order to make myself understood, I would have to master the language (Cape Dutch i.e. Afrikaans) spoken by the majority and I therefore set myself the great task of learning “Cape Dutch” to enable me to explain to them the Qur’aan and the meaning of the Arabic idioms necessary to carry out the basic rules of the religion, to translate the text and teach these people in their own language the true Islamic religion.

It was necessary to give them advice and, in many instances, I had to try hard to reform some of their bad habits and practices, which were contrary to the religion of Islaam. I experienced difficulty with a minority, who were reluctant to give up their bad habits and foul deeds, but the majority was eager to learn and follow the correct Qur’aanic laws and regulations for the proper observance of the Muslim religion. Some began to realize how the religious disputes they used to have prior to my arrival were futile and unnecessary in the absence of a guiding authority like myself on religious matters.

It was with the hope of guiding and helping these people, and of teaching them to be good Muslims, that I came to these shores from Istanbul, a journey of nearly 15 000 miles, to a strange country so far away, inhabited by people of different habits, and speaking a different language. I found to my regret that some of these people were very ignorant and so completely degenerate that religion had lost its significance. The knowledge which religion gives one was not thought of, and they were Muslims in name and theory only. Indeed they had but little knowledge of the Muslim religious rules and regulations necessary for the proper observance of Islaam. These then were the people I had to reform and teach, and having come to so far a country, I was determined to fulfill my mission.

I started by opening a Theological School beginning with books written in my own hand, dividing them into eight books on different aspects of the religion. I wrote the text (matn) in Arabic and the explanations (sharh) in Cape Dutch.
I then began teaching the Qur’aan to those of my followers with some education. In time I succeeded in training some of the more intelligent among them in the Arabic language, and in the essentials necessary for the proper observance of the Muslim religion. After some time and with much patience I could rely on a few of the more advanced pupils, to become teachers in their turn. I encouraged them to teach small groups under my supervision. Eventually I held them responsible to teach a given number of students in their own classes. I also opened a separate school for the women.

As the teachers and their pupils increased in number I realized the impossibility of continuing with only my hand-written books. I then decided to concentrate on two books only, namely “Bayaanu-d-diyn” and “MaraaSidu-d-diyn”, and to discontinue using the other six books. In the meantime in a personal message, I implored His Imperial Majesty the Sultan of Turkey to grant permission for the printing of the two books, which I had selected, in the Government printing works in Istanbul. My request was graciously considered, and permission was granted by His Imperial Majesty the Sultan, and the two books were duly printed in the Government printing house in Istanbul.

This gracious act by His Imperial Majesty was very much appreciated by the Muslim people of South Africa and Mozambique. In Mozambique there is a Mosque built by the famous Turkish architect Sinan Pasha by the order of Sultan Selim, where the special Friday prayers take place attended by the Muslim community of Mozambique, where I was present on many occasions. I was directed by His Majesty the Sultan to distribute some of these books among the people of Mozambique, so that the learned ones could teach the poor and ignorant ones.
In conclusion I beg to offer my prayers for His Imperial Majesty Sultan Hamid II, Sultan of Turkey, Persia, Arabia, and Sultan of Greece, Son of Sultan Abdul Majid, descendant of the House of Sultan Osman.
Further I thank the Almighty God (ALLAAH) for helping me to create an orderly Muslim community in these parts of the world.

The Shaykh of Knowledge
Abdullaah Abu Bakr Effendi Al-Qurashiy Al-Amjadiy (1876)

(Translated by Abu bakr Rushdiy, the author’s grandson 1960)

The book has three introductions. One in Turkish, one in Arabic, and one in Afrikaans.

to be continued inshaa allaah