Descendants
After relocating to Aden, Abu Bakr raised a family of his own and started off a new lineage. The Aidarus clan was an offshoot of the Ba'Alawi Al-Saqqaf clan of Tarim lineage; and established a new clan many of his descendants established trading links with the Bedouins and the Qu'aiti Sultans and took up prominent political positions. Other descendants migrated to India, Southeast Asia and East Africa from the late 14th century onwards and established new Islamic schools or Muslim ruling houses; among the first descendants to migrate was a grandson, Sayyid Abdallah and another descendant, Sayyid Abdullah, both of whom migrated to India and Aceh respectively and established new diaspora communities.
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