First i want to let yall know, between 2025 and my great grandfather birth, its 180 years. somehow my whole male line was born when our fathers were 70-40-40-now.
The story goes in the 1860s my great-grandfather was at the market, and met a Darood with a small boy, he inquired about his "son" and the Darood guy said "he will never be my son, he is my slave" and that the child was originally madhaban, he bought the child from the "slave's brother" because his brother owed him a debt he could not pay. my great-grandfather was so disgusted by a Muslim enslaving another Muslim he asked, how much he wanted for the slave, he ended up getting him for one donkey and one goat.
Upon getting the child, he freed him and proclaimed that "this child is my son, his name is my name, and his line will be my line, and i curse anyone who says otherwise" (hadith “Whoever changes the name of an orphan, the angels curse him until he restores the name.” Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 5272, quran “Give orphans their property, and do not substitute the bad for the good, nor consume their property by mixing it with your own, indeed that is a great sin.” Sūrah al-Nisāʾ (4:2). One thing i know is that Somalis have good intentions but as i tell the story you will see the reason why Islam advises against that.
Anyway, A few years later, the son was ready to get married, but no Somali woman in the area would marry him because he was a madhaban and a former slave, they looked and looked and no one would marry him, so he ended up marrying a Somali bantu, his kids, and his kid's kids married somali bantu, his decended 1000-1500 of them are very much bantu, but if you ask them what qabil they are, they claim to be Degodia.
Obviously, we all know Somalia is a hellscape of lawlessness and other clans would pick on them, clan battles happened, and blood debt would have to be paid. When asked what qabil they are, they claim degodia. and my relatives have had to pay that debt. tbh, my whole perspective of Somali-bantu changed after i heard this story, their closes ancestor 145 years ago was Somali, they may look bantu and claim Degodia, but in the end Do i consider them brothers? the anwer is yes.
The story goes in the 1860s my great-grandfather was at the market, and met a Darood with a small boy, he inquired about his "son" and the Darood guy said "he will never be my son, he is my slave" and that the child was originally madhaban, he bought the child from the "slave's brother" because his brother owed him a debt he could not pay. my great-grandfather was so disgusted by a Muslim enslaving another Muslim he asked, how much he wanted for the slave, he ended up getting him for one donkey and one goat.
Upon getting the child, he freed him and proclaimed that "this child is my son, his name is my name, and his line will be my line, and i curse anyone who says otherwise" (hadith “Whoever changes the name of an orphan, the angels curse him until he restores the name.” Sunan Abī Dāwūd, 5272, quran “Give orphans their property, and do not substitute the bad for the good, nor consume their property by mixing it with your own, indeed that is a great sin.” Sūrah al-Nisāʾ (4:2). One thing i know is that Somalis have good intentions but as i tell the story you will see the reason why Islam advises against that.
Anyway, A few years later, the son was ready to get married, but no Somali woman in the area would marry him because he was a madhaban and a former slave, they looked and looked and no one would marry him, so he ended up marrying a Somali bantu, his kids, and his kid's kids married somali bantu, his decended 1000-1500 of them are very much bantu, but if you ask them what qabil they are, they claim to be Degodia.
Obviously, we all know Somalia is a hellscape of lawlessness and other clans would pick on them, clan battles happened, and blood debt would have to be paid. When asked what qabil they are, they claim degodia. and my relatives have had to pay that debt. tbh, my whole perspective of Somali-bantu changed after i heard this story, their closes ancestor 145 years ago was Somali, they may look bantu and claim Degodia, but in the end Do i consider them brothers? the anwer is yes.
