Futuh Al-Habesh

[Libaaxseendheer]

The significance of the Futuh was first recognised in Gujarat, the region of India with closest connections with Ethiopia, and the destination of numerous slaves captured by the imam in the course of his campaigns. A copy of Sihab ad-Din's work reached Gujarat within only a few decades of its composition. The text was considered so important in explaining the influx of Abyssinian slaves into that part of India that the Gujrati writer Abdallah Muhammad bin Omar al-Makki al-Asafi al-Ulugkani, better known as Haji ad-Dabir, included portions of it in his history of Gujarat written in Arabic around 1605. He may have been encouraged in this by the fact that he was in the service, successively, of two noblemen, Muhammad Yaquit Ulugh Khan and Abdul Kerim Dayfud Muhammad Fulad Khan. Both had apparently been captured in the Imam's wars, or were descendants of persons so captured.

 

[Libaaxseendheer]

"when the sultan and the somalis he had with him heard the news about them and what they had done during the jihad against the infidels, and the booty they had taken, they were overcome with anxiety and fear, and fled the country, he and the somalis with him, to a town called Kidad in the country of the somalis.
the imam Ahmad bin Ibrahim and his companions heard news of the flight the sultan and the somalis from the country, and set out after them and reached Kidad and ran the sultan and the somalis, to earth in a place called Qarn - a river filled with much water - at mid=day.
they organised their forces and joined battle, and the sultan and the somalis were put to flight. A troop of them was killed. the imam took thirty horsed from amongst their mounts, as booty. They sacked their country, and collected vast booty from it. the imam and his companion s returned to their country, Harar, part of the land of Sa'd ad-Din .
The had not settled down very long when the sultan Abu Bakr assembled a force against the imam Ahmad and his companion, made up of an immense army of somalis and others. Their horses and troops were so numerous ads to be incalculable. They all reached the district, that is to say, Harar. When the imam and his companions heard of their coming, they withdrew from the country and proceeded to the town called Hubat Zeberta. In Hubat there was a high mountain which they climbed.
the sultan learned of what they had done and set ou in pursuit of them as far as the mountain itself. Here he besieged them, hemming them in with a siege that lasted somewhere between thirteen and nineteen days. The imam and his companions were so exhausted by the siege that they descended the mountain by night. A terrible battle ensued and the companions of the imam were to flight. The emir whom they had chosen to rule them, "umar Din, may the Most High God have mercy upon him, was killed. So the imam and his companion went back to their homes.
after this the people mediated between the imam and the sultan and the somalis. The imam and his companions entered the service of the sultan Abu Bakr for a few days, but then sultan Abu Bakr violated the pact and the peace, and betrayed the imam , Ahmad and his companions, confiscating their swords their mounts and their weapons. The imam had only three of tall his horses left.

among the imam's companions who were killed after the peace and the pact was an outstanding emir whose name was Uthman bin Yas. The sultan decvsted the country, tyrannizing the citizenry along with some of the sheikhs, the Quranic teachers and the learned men. the imam's life was threatened so he left, fleeing by night from the country, taking with him his three horses.

 

[pablo]

Legendary, I still need to get that book.

 

[Marquis]

As a Hawiye, its a blessing to know that Imam Ahmed Gurey is one of our own.

 

[Libaaxseendheer]

As a Hawiye, its a blessing to know that Imam Ahmed Gurey is one of our own.

Are you familiar with the house of Balaw? Karanle was it?

 

[Marquis]

Are you familiar with the house of Balaw? Karanle was it?

yes they are Sixawle Karanle. They still live in the region of Harar-Babile.

 

[Gadhwayne]

@embarassing

Axmed al Ghaazi was from Sixawle Karenle Haawiye?

 

[embarassing]

@embarassing

Axmed al Ghaazi was from Sixawle Karenle Haawiye?

Yeah, I've posted about it in other threads.

 

[shum33]

@embarassing

Axmed al Ghaazi was from Sixawle Karenle Haawiye?

ahmed gurey was not somali

 

[Octavian]

ahmed gurey was not somali

of course not he was martian

 

[embarassing]

ahmed gurey was not somali

It is almost universally known he was. But I'm not surprised you'd have that opinion lol.

 

[shum33]

It is almost universally known he was. But I'm not surprised you'd have that opinion lol.

Were is the proof?!! And dont qoute some badly translated book please we been through this. He wasn’t somali let alone karanle or whatever. His army was not a somali army but had harla, arabs e.t.c (although still predominantly somali)
Most probably he was harla adal sultanate had confirmed harla/harari sultans like mahfuz who was in power when the imam was around 10. The harla army was under the imam nephew mentioned in the futuh al habeshi and he was harla.
The original text clearly made ethnic distinction between the armies and even went to the trouble of mentioning the qabils of the somalis. If the imam was somali it would have been clearly stated but all his relatives were harla soooooo!!!

 

[embarassing]

Were is the proof?!! And dont qoute some badly translated book please we been through this. He wasn’t somali let alone karanle or whatever. His army was not a somali army but had harla, arabs e.t.c (although still predominantly somali)
Most probably he was harla adal sultanate had confirmed harla/harari sultans like mahfuz who was in power when the imam was around 10. The harla army was under the imam nephew mentioned in the futuh al habeshi and he was harla.
The original text clearly made ethnic distinction between the armies and even went to the trouble of mentioning the qabils of the somalis. If the imam was somali it would have been clearly stated but all his relatives were harla soooooo!!!

The text didn't state he was anything else either so why are you so sure that he wasn't Somali? I can guess why. All historians including Habeshi ones who have access to their king chronicles identify him as Somali. So your opinion is baseless.

 

[Shmurda]

Ahmed gurey was probably afar or harari

 

[embarassing]

Ahmed gurey was probably afar or harari

Hararis didn't exist, Afars were fighting Adal and allied to the Habesha for most of history and the Oromo expansion was just beginning and they didn't exist in the region.

Thats an ignorant statement might as well claim the Imam was a Bantu from Kenya next.

 

[Ace the shank]

Ahmed gurey was probably afar or harari

why would an afar surround himself with somalis why not his own people your whole argument is baseless ahmed gurey was somali 1000%

 

[Advokaten]

The holy imam was the god given mahdi to the somalis, Other wise if he did not exist, We would dance eskista and have a affinity for eating rotten foods, He clearly was of dir heritage but the subclan is not well known, Look at his zeila links, His his army was almost entirely composed by geeljires who would never follow none somalis, Afars and hararis are miskeens and cant produce a man of such caliber

 

[Shmurda]

Hararis didn't exist, Afars were fighting Adal and allied to the Habesha for most of history and the Oromo expansion was just beginning and they didn't exist in the region.

Thats an ignorant statement might as well claim the Imam was a Bantu from Kenya next.

Let's just agree that he was Somali but obviously not hawiye

 

[embarassing]

Let's just agree that he was Somali but obviously not hawiye

He was both Somali and Hawiye.

 

[Ace the shank]

He was both Somali and Hawiye.

no were in the book did it mention his qabil none less him being hawiye