Al-Ninowy was born in Aleppo, Syria. His lineage is traced back to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, through his grandson Hussein ibn Ali by way of Musa al-Kadhim. His family descends from Madina, then the southern Iraqi village of Ninowa, where Hussein ibn Ali was martyred in a partial area which is also known as Karbala where his great grandfather Ibrahim al-Mujab was buried, then to city of Mosul in the northern Iraqi province of Ninowa, then to Aleppo in northern Syria a few hundred years ago.

Islamische Gelehrte Imam, Forscher,Arzt.

Er ist verheiratet und hat zwei Söhne und eine Tochter. Sein Bruder, Shaykh Sayyid Isa (ist der Imam der Masjid Hamzah in Atlanta)