Sayyid muhammad al-bakri biography

Ali Sayed Muhammad Mustafa


Terror organization: Al Qaeda;

Status: al-Bakri is a member of Al Qaeda’s Shura Council (highest decision-making body);

Role: He is an expert in explosives and chemical weapons. He is close to the new leader of the Al Qaeda, Saif al-Adl, and used to be close also to Ayman al-Zawahiri.

He is living in Iran with his family.

Before he joined to Al Qaeda, al Bakri was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group under the direction of al-Zawahiri. He served as an instructor in Al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan, training terrorist recruits in the use of explosives and chemical weapons. Al Bakri also attempted to hijack a Pakistani Air passenger flight in December 2000. It is likely that he continues to train Al Qaeda terrorists and other extremists.

Location: Unknown;

Born: 18 April 1966

Known also as: Abdulaziz al Masri; Abd al-Aziz al-Masri;

Activities:
Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri (Arabic: علي سيد محمد مصطفى البكري) alias Abd al-Aziz al-Masri (Arabic: عبد العزيز المصري, born 18 April 1966 in Bani Suwayf, Egypt) is a member of the Shura Council of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda and a former member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, from which he migrated to al-Qaeda, along with Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Bakri is at large, and the United States Department of State is offering up to US$5 million for information about his location. The State Department wanted poster reads:

Ali Sayyid Muhamed Mustafa al-Bakri is an al-Qaida member and an explosives and chemical weapons expert. He is a member of the al-Qaida Shura council and is a close associate of al-Qaida leaders Saif al-Adel and Ayman al-Zawahiri. Prior to joining al-Qaida, al-Bakri was a member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, under the direction of Ayman al-Zawahiri. He served as an instructor in al-Qaida’s camps in Afghanistan, providing terrorist recruits with training in the use of explosives and chemical weapons. Al-Bakri al


Shaykh Bakri Al-Tarabishi 1921-2012

RECITER WITH THE SHORTEST CHAIN OF TRANSMISSION DURING OUR TIME

Shaykh Bakri al-Ṭarabīshī was born in Damascus in 1338 AH/1921 AD to a home of learning and piety.  His father was Shaykh ʽAbd al-Majīd al-Ṭarābīshī from among the legal scholars (fuqahāʼ) of Damascus specializing in the Ḥanafī school of law.  King Fayṣal b. al-Ḥusayn selected him as a confidant after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in greater Syria in 1918.  Shaykh Bakrī memorized the Qurʼan when he was a boy of twelve years and perfected his memorization at the age of fifteen. He also worked with his father in trade.

His Memorization of the Qur’an

Shaykh Bakrī al-Ṭarabīshī memorized the Qur’an when he was twelve and learned it with tajwīd and beautiful recitation when he was fifteen.  When he was twelve years old, his father took him to the Shaykh ʽAbd al-Wahhāb Ḥāfiẓ (known as Shaykh ʽabd al-Wahhāb Debs wa Zayt due to an old family title).  He later became a student of Shaykh ʽIzz al-Dīn ʽAraqsūsī.  When he reached the age of twenty, he recited the Qur’an under Shaykh ʽAbd al-Qādir al-Ṣabbāgh who took his chain of recitation from the elder Shaykh Aḥmad Ḥulwānī.  In 1942, Shaykh Muḥammad Salīm al-Ḥulwānī certified him or gave himijāza in Qur’anic recitation in the seven canonical readings from the Shāṭibī chain of transmission.  Shaykh Muḥammad Salīm al-Ḥulwānī passed away shortly after, and Shaykh Bakrī was the last person he certified.  After this, Shaykh Bakrī al-Ṭarābishī followed up his studies by taking the ten canonical readings with Shaykh Salīm’s peer, Shaykh Muḥammad Fāʼiz al-Dayr ʽAṭānī.  Thus, Shaykh Bakrī became a Qur’anic reciter with the shortest chain of oral transmission (the least number of oral transmitters) of the Qur’an in the world.  He had only twenty-seven transmitters between himself and the Prophet (PBUH).  The last person besides him to have had an equally short chain of transmission died over thirty years ago.

His Leg

    Sayyid muhammad al-bakri biography

“Many philosophers and intellectuals have discussed, debated and written on the topic of utopia. Is it real? Where is it found? Yes, it is real and we experience it every time we are in a gathering of prayers upon the Beloved ﷺ.”

Sharif Muhammad Sa’id al-Bid

Sharif Muhammad was one of the great educators and callers to Allah in East Africa in recent times. Here we take a brief look at his life.

Sharif Muhammad’s Father

Sharif Muhammad’s father, Sharif Sa’id, was born in Malindi, Kenya in 1330 (1912). There was a close bond between his father, Sharif `Abdullah and Habib Salih bin ‘Alawi Jamal al-Layl, one of East Africa’s greatest scholars and callers to Allah. Habib Salih duly married his daughter, Hababah Nur, to Sharif Abdullah, and she gave birth to Sharif Sa’id.

Sharif Sa’id’s father passed away when he was fourteen years old,  and he then went to study on the island of Lamu under his uncle, Habib Ahmad bin Salih Jamal al-Layl. When he completed his studies at the age of nineteen, he opened a madrasah and began teaching. He spent the rest of his life spreading knowledge and calling people to Allah. He worked alongside Habib Ahmad Mashhur al-Haddad in Uganda. Whole villages accepted Islam at his hands in the Arua region, near the border with Congo. When he came to a village he would open a shop. When a customer came to buy something from him, he would give him more than he had paid for or give him free foodstuffs. If someone bought tea, for example, he would give him free sugar, saying: “You will need this for your tea.” When asked why he was doing this, he would explain that the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ taught people to be generous. When he had won the people’s love and trust, they would allow him to teach their children. Very quickly all the people of the village would embrace Islam. Then he would move on to another village.

He died in a road accident on 28 Muharram 1383 (1963) on his return from performing hajj and

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    Arab Andalusian geographer and historian (c. 1040–1094)

    For the lunar crater, see Al-Bakri (crater). For the medieval biographer of Muhammad, see Abū al-Ḥasan Bakrī.

    Abū ʿUbayd ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad ibn Ayyūb ibn ʿAmr al-Bakrī (Arabic: أبو عبيد عبد الله بن عبد العزيز بن محمد بن أيوب بن عمرو البكري), or simply al-Bakrī (c. 1040–1094) was an ArabAndalusianhistorian and a geographer of the Muslim West.

    Life

    Al-Bakri was born in Huelva, the son of the sovereign of a short-lived principality established there by his family when the Caliphate of Cordoba fell in 1031. Al-Bakri belonged to the Arab tribe of Bakr. When his father was deposed by al-Mu'tadid (1042–1069) of the ruler of Taifa of Seville, he then moved to Córdoba, where he studied with the geographer al-Udri and the historian Ibn Hayyan. He spent his entire life in Al-Andalus, most of it in Seville and Almeria. While in Seville, he was there when El Cid arrived to collect tributes from Alfonso VI. He died in Córdoba without ever having travelled to the locations of which he wrote.

    Works

    Al-Bakri wrote about Europe, North Africa, and the Arabian peninsula. Only two of his works have survived. His Mu'jam mā ista'jam contains a list of place names mostly within the Arabian peninsula with an introduction giving the geographical background. His most important work is his Kitāb al-Masālik wa-al-Mamālik ("Book of Highways and of Kingdoms") (كتاب المساليك والمماليك). This was composed in 1068, based on literature and the reports of merchants and travellers, including Muhammad ibn Yūsuf al-Warrāq (904–973) and Abraham ben Jacob. It is one of the most important sources for the history of West Africa and gives crucial information on the Ghana Empire, the Almoravid dynasty and the trans-Saharan trade. Although the material borrowed from al-Warraq dated from