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- ↑ "Sri Lanka Memon Family Genealogy". www.worldgenweb.org. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ↑ Hussein, Asiff (2007). Sarandib: An Ethnological Study of the Muslims of Sri Lanka. Asiff Hussein. ISBN 978-955-97262-2-7.
- ↑ Fizayi, Khushtar (1999). Sri Lanka Mein Barelviyat (in Urdu). Maktaba Sunniyah. p. 36.
- ↑ Hussein, Asiff; Bhoja, Hameed Karim (2006). Memons of Sri Lanka: Men, Memoirs, Milestones. Memon Association of Sri Lanka. pp. 50–51. ISBN 978-955-1408-00-8.