Muhammad Hajiar Abdul Aziz (c1910-1954)

Muhammad Hajiar A Aziz originated from the southern town of Galle and came to live by the side of the Bambalapitiya, along a Private Road, in Colombo during the nineteen fifties. He was and Advocate and also the founder of the Ahadiya Movement which esposed Islamic Education to Muslim children in Sri Lanka.

He married Jiffriya, daughter of Ismail Lebbe Marikar Idroos Lebbe Hajiar of Matara. They have five children, Shibly Aziz (presidents Counsel and ex Attorney General of Sri Lanka), Minna, Imthiaz, Ifthikhar and Ryhan, who all live in Colombo now.

M H A Aziz has five siblings, Junaid, Basheera, Sheriff, Mathunga Natchia and Hamza.

His father was Sheik Usuf Lebbe of Kadiwayawatte, of Dharga Town in Aluthgama who married in Galle to Muthunachiya daughter of Ismail Lebbe Marikkar. Sheikh Usuf one son, Mohamed, (who later became Mohamed Hadjiar, on performing Hadj at the Holy city of Makkah in 1905), and one  daughter Saidath Umma, who  was married to Mohamed (details not known) in Balapitiya and had two sons namely: Abdul Sammie and Abdul Hameed.