Hashmi Syed (Nakokara)

The Nakokara (Hashmi Syed) is tribe that claims descent from the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraish, and are found in Punjab, Pakistan. They are concenterated in the Jhang and Chiniot districts of Punjab.

History and origin

The history of this Hashmi Syed clan meets upward with Banu Hashim and regaring the word Nakokara, it means the "doer of goods". This word Nakokara has a history as this was a surname honoured to Hazrat Uqeel Bin Abu Talib is described as "once our dear Prophet Muhammad was sitting in a circle among his Sahaba ikram (followers). Hazrat Amir Muaawiya was sitting on right hand and the wind was also blowing from right to left. Dear Prophet said Muawiya to exchange his place with Hazrat Uqeel Bin Abi Talib, who was sitting on left hand. So the sitting place was exchanged and meeting continued and then finished. After the meeting, some sahaba ikram asked AbOUT this secret. Then Dear Prophet explained that there is a sperm in Muawiya's back bone, who is the enemy of my race (this was redirection to Karbala Event) and as Hazrat Uqeel is a Nekokar (pious man ), so i exchanged their sittings as this was harming me that Muawiya is sitting on right and wind is also coming from right. After this Hazrat Uqeel was known as Uqeel Nakokar".

The Nakokara clawn are said to have come originally from Bahwalpur some 600 years ago. In addition to Jhang and Chiniot, they also hold lands in Gujranwala and Sargodha Districts.

Members of this Syed clan carry the family name Hashmi or Hashemi.

Nakokara (Pious) is a surname, was given by the Prophet Muhammad to Uqeel bin Abu Talib.

Family Tree

The family Tree of the Nakokara meets up with their ancestor Abu Talib ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib (Arabic:) (549 – 619), who was the head of the clan of Banu Hashim(Hashim ibn Abdul Manaf). He was married to Fatima bint Asad and was an uncle of Muhammad. His real name was Imran, but he is better known as Abu Talib because he had a son named Talib.

Abu Talib raised and supported Muhammad while he was a young man. Abu Talib had four sons:

  1. Talib ibn Abi Talib
  2. Ja`far ibn Abī Tālib
  3. Ali ibn Abi Talib(Family tree of Ali , Family tree of Muhammad)
  4. Aqeel ibn Abi Talib

and two daughters:

  1. Fakhitah bint Abi Talib
  2. Jumanah bint Abi Talib (Umm Hani)

Aqeel ibn Abi Talib (Arabic) was born in the year 590.

Aqeel was second of the four sons of Abu Talib, who was the uncle and protector of Muhammad. Aqeel's nickname was Abu Yazid. He fought in the Battle of Mu'tah and became blind late in his life, dying at the age of 96.

Aqeel had five sons:

  1. Muslim ibn Aqeel
  2. Muhammad ibn Aqeel
  3. Yazid ibn Aqeel
  4. Issa ibn Aqeel
  5. Al-Hassan ibn Aqeel
  6. and a daughter, Ramlah bint Aqeel.

Muslim ibn Aqeel was the cousin of Hazrat Imam Hussain is the First martyr of Kufa1 in the Kerbala2 Event.

Mulim Bin Aqeel family: Most of the family is in rest in Lahore Pakistan famous as Bibi Pak Damanan345

Aqeel was the man who found Umme Habiba to marry Imam Ali.

Banu Hashim (Arabic) was a clan in the Quraish tribe. Islam's last Prophet Muhammad was a member of this clan; his great-grandfather was Hashim, for whom the clan is named. Members of this Syed clan carry the family name Hashmi or Hashemi and in some areas known with surname Peerzada.

The family tree of this tribe is described as under:

  1. Mian Hassan Hayat Nakokara ( Brothers > Faisal Hayat & Ahmad Hayat)
  2. Son of Mian Nazar Hayat ( Brothers > Muhammad Shafi& Ahmad Yar )
  3. Son of Murad Shah ( Brothers > Mian Karram Shah, Mian Qadar Shah, Mian Bhadar shah)
  4. Son of Meher Shah
  5. Son of Wali Shah
  6. Son of Fateh Shah
  7. Son of Fateh Darya
  8. Son of Shahamand Shah
  9. Son of Said Shah
  10. Son of Shaikh Abdullah
  11. Son of Shaikh Sadiq
  12. Son of Shaikh TajDeen
  13. Son of Shaikh Saidan
  14. Son of Shaikh Allah Ditta
  15. Son of Hazrat Sadhan Juan (Shaikh Saad)6
  16. Son of Shaikh Yaqoob
  17. Son of Shaikh Eisa Ghaus
  18. Son of Shaikh Alam Deen
  19. Son of Shaikh Kameer
  20. Son of Shaikh Abu Saeed
  21. Son of Shaikh Nasir Deen
  22. Son of Shaikh Muhammad
  23. Son of Shaikh Jalal Deen
  24. Son of Shaikh Abdul Rehman
  25. Son of Shaikh Abdul Khaliq
  26. Son of Shaikh Jawaher
  27. Son of Shaikh Umer
  28. Son of Shaikh Nizam
  29. Son of Shaikh Mehmood
  30. Son of Shaikh Ahmad
  31. Son of Shaikh Muhammad
  32. Son of Shaikh Abdul Aziz
  33. Son of Shaikh Nasran
  34. Son of Shaikh Abdullah
  35. Son of Shaikh Muslim (Muslim Bin Uqeel)
  36. Bin Uqeel (Brother of HAazrat Ali Bin Abu Talib Karam Allah Waj hu)
  37. Bin Abu Talib (Uncle of Piyaray Muhammad Sall-Allah Ho Ale He Wa Ale He Wa Sallam (Family tree of Muhammad))
  38. Bin Abdul Mutlib
  39. Bin HASHIM
  40. Bin Abdul Munaf
  41. Bin Qassa
  42. Bin Kulab
  43. Bin Marrah
  44. Bin Kaab,
  45. Bin Lavee
  46. Bin Ghalib
  47. Bin Father
  48. Bin Malik
  49. Bin Nazdar
  50. Bin Kanana
  51. Bin Khazima
  52. Bin Madrake
  53. Bin Aliyas
  54. Bin Muzdar
  55. Bin Nazaar
  56. Bin Maad
  57. Bin Adenan
  58. Bin Owo
  59. Bin Hameesaa
  60. Bin Jumal
  61. Bin Nibt
  62. Bin Kezar
  63. Bin ISMAIL Zahib Ulla
  64. Bin Hazrat Iibrahim Khalil Ullah
  65. Bin Torah
  66. Bin Qasir
  67. Bin Sharigh
  68. Bin Arghoot
  69. Bin Faligh
  70. Bin Shalikh
  71. Bin Keenan
  72. Bin Arfakhshad
  73. Bin Samm
  74. Bin Hazrat Nuh Alehis Salam
  75. Bin Yardd
  76. Bin Idris
  77. Bin Mehmaial
  78. Bin Keenan
  79. Bin Anosh
  80. Bin Sheeth
  81. Bin Abu-Al-Bashir Hazrat ADAM Safi-Ullah

Villages

The main villages of the tribe in Chiniot District area are Hersa Shaikh, Chauntrewala, Thatta Karam Shah, Taliyala and Zakhera . Here also a few villages in Jhang District such as Nekokara. In addition, Sheikh Waen in Bahawalpur District, Sagharpur in Jhelum District are also important villages of the tribe.