KH Abu Bakar adolah saurang ulama jo katib takamuko di Musajik Besar Kasultanan Yogyakarta pado maso itu, dan amak dari K.H. Ahmad Dahlan adolah puteri dari H. Ibrahim nan juo manjabat pangulu Kasultanan Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat pado maso itu.
His father, KH Abu Bakr was a leading scholar and preacher at the Great Mosque of Yogyakarta Sultanate, and his mother, Nyai Abu Bakr is the daughter of H. Ibrahim, who also serves Yogyakarta Sultanate rulers at that time.