The Kunta produced numerous scholars in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of whom the best-known and most prolific were direct descendants of Sh. Sī. al-Mukhtār al-Kabīr. Their Qādiriyya disciples carried the ṭarīqa widely over western Sudanic Africa, though the Tijāniyya became a powerful rival to it in the twentieth century.

al-Mukhtār b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Kuntī al-Wāfī Abū Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn

His son Sī. Muḥammad b. al-Mukhtār b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Kuntī al-Wāfī

al-Mukhtār al-Ṣaghīr b. Muḥammad b. al-Mukhtār b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Kuntī

Bābā Aḥmad b. al-Mukhtār al-Ṣaghīr

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