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 Maulana Sheikh Muhammad al-Nasir Kabara (RA)

Life and Times

The Amirul Jaysh, Sheikh Nasir Muhammad Kabara (RA), Life and Times

Sheikh Nasir Muhammad Umar Kabara, a noted Islamic scholar and philsopher was born in 1912 in  Guringuwa village outside Kano, Nigeria.

His grandparents came from Kabara, a town under Timbucktu kingdom. His third generation grandfather - also from Kabara in Timbucktu -  Mallam Umaru, also known as Mallam Kabara was the only one from the lineage to settle in Adakawa in Kano city, before moving on to what is now known as Kabara ward, named after him.  He was an accomplished Sufi in Timbucktu before departing for Kano.

The first thing Mallam Kabara did on settling in Kabara ward was to establish a school in 1787, of a sort commonly referred as Zaure School where the outer entrance hall of his house was co