The Abaqati family (or Khandān-e-Abaqāat) is one branch of the Nishapuri Kintoori Sayyids. The most famous of Kintoori Sayyeds is Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Saheb-e-Abaqaat, author of work entitled Abaqat al Anwar; the first word in the title of this work provided his descendants with the nisba (title) they still bear, Abaqati. Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi, a Lucknow based cleric is from the family of Nishapuri Kintoori Sayyids and uses title Abaqati.
The Nishapuri Sada'at (Sayeds) of Barabanki (adjoining areas of Kintoor, Fatehpur, Jarwal and Lucknow) are Kazmi or Musavi Sayeds; that is they claim descent from the Prophet through his daughter's line and the line of the seventh Imam of the Shi'a Muslims, Musa al-Kazem. They came in India originally from Nishapur a town near Mashhad in northeastern Iran. Two brothers Sayed Sharafu'd-Din Abu Talib (who was the ancestor of Waris 'Ali) and Sayed Muhammed in thirteenth century forsaked Nishapur, Iran (via Khorasan and Mashhad) for Awadh, India in the time of Hulagu Khan (1256-1265) the Il-Khanid Mongol ruler. After their arrival in Kintoor the Saiyids were givena large jagir by Sultan Muhammad Tughluq, where they continued to hold the land in different tenures until twentieth century at the turn of which they held two-thirds of the village land of Kintoor. Sayed Alauddin Kazmi have said to be accompanied these two brothers in their movement from Iran, he later moved to Tehsil Fatehpur. The grave of Sayed Alauddin Kazmi is situated in Kintoor. The Kazmis of Fatehpur are his descendants. These Nishapuri Sayeds of Kintoor spread to adjoining localities of Barabanki e.g. Fatehpur, and even to neighbouring districts e.g. Jarwal in Bahraich district and in Lucknow. These Nishapuri Sayeds produced several outstanding Shia Muslim religious scholars in 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
Sayeds of Kintoor can be categorized in two prominent families, namely, Abaqati (that of Sayed Hamid Hussain) and Khomeini (that of Sayed Ahmed).
Sayyids of Jarwal (Bahraich), Kintoor (Barabanki) and Zaidpur (Barabanki) were wellknown Taluqadars (feudal lords) of Awadh province.
Syed Sharafu'd-Din of Nishapur,
in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Syed Muhammad of Nishapur,
in fourteenth century forsaken Iran for Awadh in the time of Hulagu the II-Khanid Mongol ruler. The Nishapuri Sayyids of Kintoor produced several outstanding Shi‘i religious scholars in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Ayatollah Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli Khan Kintoori (1775-1844),
principal
Sadr Amin at the British court in Meerut. He was also author of
Tathir al-mu'minin 'an najasat al-mushrikin.
Syed Ejaz Husain Kintoori
author of books
Kashf al-hujub wa'l-astar `an al-kutub wa'l-asfar;
A'inah-'i haqq-nama;
Shudhur al-`iqyan fi tarajim al-a`yan, 2 vols. A'inah," a primary source is Kintoori's biographical dictionary of Shi‘i ulama, an extremely useful source, remains in manuscript and has not been used by writers on Imami Shi‘ism in the West.
Syed Sirāj Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori (1823-1865),
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli
Kintoori, he was author of
Kashf al-ḥujub wa-l-astār ʿan asmāʾ al-kutub wa-l-asfār,
Shudhūr al-ʿiqyān fī tarājim al-aʿyān and
Āʾīna-yi ḥaqq-numā.
Syed Iʿjāz Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori (1825-1870),
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli
Kintoori, he worked in the British judiciary and administration and was one of the first Shiʿi ʿulamāʾ to engage with the new learning in English and translated works of science in Persian and Urdu. He was also associated with Sir Syed Ahmed Khan.
Ayatollah Syed Mir Hamid Hussain Musavi Kintoori Lakhnavi (1830-1880)
son of Mufti Syed Muhammad Quli
Kintoori author of book
Abaqat ul Anwar fi Imamat al Ai'imma al-Athar.
Justice Maulvi Syed Karāmat Ḥusayn Musavi Kintoori (1854-1917),
son of Syed Iʿjāz Ḥusayn, he became a pioneer encouraging the education of girls in the next generation as one of the key responses to the shock of the loss of power and prestige with the advent of formal empire after 1857. He also served as a professor of law at Aligarh. He was founder of Karamat College, Lucknow.
Syed Ghulam Hasnain, Allamah Kintoori (1831-1918)
was a religious scholar (a
Mujtahid), a physician, a pharmacologist and an alchemist. He was the author of the book
Miatain fi Maqtalil Husain and
Qanun-e-Shaikh bu 'Ali Sina. He was married to Hamid Hussain's sister.
Syed Nasir Husain Nasir-ul-Millat(1867-1942),
a
marja'ul-taqlid and a mujtahid of most North Indian Shias was son of Hamid Hussain. He was
peshnamaz (leader) of Kufa mosque, Lucknow.
Syed Muhammad Naseer Naseer-ul-Millat(1895-1966),
a mujtahid of most North Indian Shias (until after independence of India when he got involved in politics and asked his
muqallids to follow
Najaf mutahids, particularly to Ayatollah Seyyed Mohsin Al-Hakim) was son of Nasir Husain
Nasir-ul-Millat.
Syed Mohammad Saeed Saeed-ul-Millat, leading cleric of India, son of Nasir-ul-millat.
Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi Roohul Millat, a Lucknow based cleric is son of Syed Mohammad Saeed Saeed-ul-Millat.
Syed Abbas Nasir Saeed Abaqati Mujahid e Millat a Najaf based cleric is son of Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi Studying in Najaf Al Ashraf Ayatollah Seestani He also a Member Of Anti Terrorist Squad (Iraq) and fought against Terrorist Group ISIS in Iraq.
Dr. Syed Murtuza Nasir Saeed Abaqati Son of Roohul Millat Syed Ali Nasir Saeed Abaqati Agha Roohi
