Nasiru Kabara

[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".

His uncle and his teacher had served four different Emir's as a religious counselor, he served Aliyu Babba, Abbas, Usman and Abdullahi Bayero, at that time his uncle was one of the most important members of the Qadiriyya brotherhood in his town.

[3] 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.

He has been given the titles Nasiru Kabara, Al-Sinhaji, Al-ƙadiri, Al-Maliki, Al-Ash'ari, Sarkin Yaƙin (War Lord) of Shehu Usmanu Bin Fodiyo.