Nasiru Kabara
Nasiru Muhammad Al-Muktar Kabara also known as Nasiru Kabara, 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. He was succeeded by his son Qaribullahi Nasiru Kabara. He is also the father of the controversial Islamic scholar Abduljabbar Nasiru Kabara.
Early life
Nasiru Muhammad Al-Muktar Kabara was born in Guringawa in the Kano State. 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, 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".Education
Nasiru Kabara received most of his education from his prominent uncle and a scholar of Qadiriyya at that time, known as Malam Ibrahım Ahmad al-Kanawi Natsugune, who was a well known scholar in the Kano State. His uncle and his teacher had served four different Emir's as a religious counselor, he served Aliyu Babba, Abbas (Emir of Kano)|Abbas], Usman and Abdullahi Bayero, at that time his uncle was one of the most important members of the Qadiriyya brotherhood in his town.He directed the sons of Kabara into two branches of the Darika brotherhood that is the Kuntiyya and the Ahl al-Bayt, which was established by Shehu Usman Dan Fodio.
Upon completing his studies in the late 1940s, Nasiru Kabara concentrated on the unification of the Qadiriyya movement in Kano. Under his leadership and onward he opened several mosques across the Hausa land as part of the Qadiriyya movement, which helped him become the leader of the Qadiriyya sect in West Africa.