[1] He was one of the prominent members of the dhawāt which refers to noble individuals occupying major offices in Egypt at that period.
[3] His mother who was an Arab slave was the wet nurse of Khedive Ismail who ruled Egypt between 1863 and 1879.
[3] He was a member of the three-member regency council which was formed in June 1867 as a result of the minority of Khedive Ismail's son Tewfik.
[6] Siddiq was appointed head of finance department in 1868 being the first non-Turk who held these two significant offices for the first time.
[7] In November 1876 Siddiq was arrested by Khedive Ismail in Saray al Jazirah and sent to exile in Dongola, Sudan, where he was put into a prison.