His father was Al-Taqashi Mahmoud bin Ahmad bin Bakr al-Shayghi, the father of the two scholars, the two scholars, the jurist.

Al-Shayghi and the jurist Ahmad bin Yenig, who was a Hanbali by origin (from the Jinn), and a Tuareg by lineage (from the tribes of the Wakuri or the Wajara). He was a great and wise jurist. He was appointed judge after the death of the judge Al-Abbas bin Kabb. (Tarikh al-Sudan, p. 19).

His son, the jurist, was succeeded by a group of scholars such as the righteous jurists, Shishna Muhammad and his brother Mahmoud bin al-Shayghi. He studied with him the principles of jurisprudence, the interpretations, and the rhetoric. And the jurist, the two brothers Abdullah and Abd al-Rahman.

And others, and I attended with him several things, and I have all the books of the jurist.

And his father and his father's lineage reached Sudan, and the land, and the healing.

Tarikh al-Sudan, p. 155.

Al-Sa'di and his brothers sought to move from Jenne to Timbuktu to work there, and it was the ancient commercial city that competed with Jenne in commercial and cultural life.

Al-Sa'di worked in Jenne.

In the year 1553 AD (961 AH), he obtained the position of Imam of the famous Sankore Mosque in Jenne (10). This was a source for me in this regard, the Islamic Encyclopedia, the old Arabic edition, the entry on Al-Mahdi; as well as the introduction of the Orientalist Huda Lants to Tarikh al-Sudan, p. 3. The two sources indicate that the Sankore Mosque is located in the city of Jenne, and that Al-Sa'di was appointed Imam of this mosque.

He moved from Timbuktu to Jenne for some time. However, Al-Sa'di's Tarikh al-Sudan, which is our source in this regard,

He pointed out in many places that the mosque is located in Timbuktu.

The mosque gradually moved to Timbuktu until they settled in it and increased. The first dwellings of the people were thorn fences and wooden huts. They moved from fences to houses.

Among them was the jurist Al-Haj Mahmoud.

The judge Abd al-Rahman bin Abi Bakr bin Al-Haj Turk was appointed judge in Timbuktu at the end of the Askia dynasty. He was the first to order people to recite a portion of the Quran in the mosque. (Tarikh al-Sudan, p. 78).

(See Anisha, Tarikh al-Sudan, p. 155 and other places).