History of sheikh abdul jabbar nasiru kabara

Nigerian Qadiriyya Scholar

Nasiru Muhammad Al-Muktar Kabara also known as Nasiru Kabara, (18 April 1924 - 1996) was a prominent Islamic scholar of Qadiriyya as well as the founder of Darul Qadiriyya in the Kano State and the former Leader of Qadiriyya in West Africa.^[1] He was succeeded by his son Qaribullahi Nasiru Kabara.

He is also the father of the controversial Islamic scholar Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara.^[2]

Early life

Nasiru Muhammad Al-Muktar Kabara was born in Guringawa in the Kano State.^[1] His great-grandfather was originally said to have come from a Kabara harbor close to a river in Niger after the Jihad of Usman Dan Fodio in (1804-8), it was from there that he migrated to Hausa land, to the Kano emirate in the late eighteenth century, where he settled across the royal palace, where he was given a piece of land to settle, the plot and the neighborhood became what's today known as Kabara ward "Unguwar Kabara".^[3&#