Sidi Muhammad al-Kunti was the son and chosen successor of Sidi al-Mukhtar al-Kunti, and after his father's death he led the Qadiriyya of the Azawad and the western Sahara. In the devotional order of the Bidan he embodies the hereditary character of Saharan sainthood, the conviction that baraka descends within a saintly house, and he is remembered as the master under whom the young Sidiyya al-Kabir studied when the future saint of Boutilimit travelled to the Kunta country to receive their blessing and their teaching. Through that transmission the Qadiri current of the Kunta passed westward into the tribes of Trarza and southern Mauritania.