The Truth about the battle of Wayna Daga and Wofla

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Since the Futuh al Habesha only covers the earlier of Ahmed Gurey's life most sources on Ethiopian Adal war take the Portuguese account of Castanhosa as gospel but I have found another source which makes more sense than Castonhosa's exaggerations. It is the Hadhrami chronicle 'Tarikh al Shihr'.

The Hadhrami chronicles say the reason Ahmed dismissed the turks after Wofla is because they tried extorting him and he didnt want to deal with them. It also says there were only 500 turks who came from Zabid not the ridiculous number of 2,900 like Castanhosa says and that even of those 500 half of them left even before Wofla after they disputed with the Imam. Meaning the Portuguese at the battle of Wofla outnumbered the Turks. It also says all the turks left after Wofla and Ahmed sent them away unlike the Portuguese account which says 200 stayed for Wayna Daga. The reason Ahmed sent them away was two fold, firstly, because he didn't want to deal with their greed as they tried to extort 10,000 uqiyah of gold (210 kg of gold/22 million dollars worth) Ahmed eventually gave them 2,000 Uqiyah (42 kg of gold, 5 million dollars worth), and secondly, because the Portuguese were totally routed at Wofla that Imam Ahmed let his guard down and thought he didn't any more reinforcements. Knowing this we can probably deduce that Wayna Daga was an Ambush and Ahmed wasn't prepared for it nor did he Marshall all his troops.

Interestingly though it gives him the Nisbah Al-Mākhidī which I have never seen before.

 

[Guure⁸]

What's makhidi nisbah?

 

[Xareen]

What's makhidi nisbah?

Only nigga with that name I can find is a Houthi. Prolly some kinda Yemeni.

 

[Guure⁸]

Only nigga with that name I can find is a Houthi. Prolly some kinda Yemeni.

So this chronicle is saying imam axmed was yemeni?

 

[Bataati]

What's makhidi nisbah?

Probably Habr Makhidi/Maqdi

 

[Maakhri2024]

His name as mentioned in the Arabic book
"History of Ash-Shiḥr and News of the Tenth Century
"تاريخ الشحر وأخبار القرن العاشر "
is Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi
أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي
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This is the Arabic text for those who want it :

وفيها وفي التي تقدم قبلها: ذكر تجريدة الإفرنجي التي وصلت السويس، وإنهم لما دخلوا دهلك طلّعوا (1) إلى برّ الحبشة خمسمائة افرنجي معونة لملك الحبشة الحطى، لما غلب عليه الإمام المجاهد أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي، وملك جميع الحبشة، وملك بعض أولاده، فاستغاث بالأفرنج فخرجوا له وطلعوا الحبشة بعددهم واجتمع اليهم النّصارى أهل الحبشة واقتتلوا هم والمجاهد فكسروا المجاهد، وظهرت شوكتهم وارتاع المجاهد والمسلمون وخشيوا (2) الظهور عليهم وأمدتهم الحبشة، وتعب المجاهد تعبا عظيما وحصلت الريبة عند العسكر فأرسل الإمام المجاهد الى زبيد إلى الباشة مصطفى نشار الرومي فأمده بخمسمائة رومي بعددهم، فطلعوا من ساحل بيلول وعلم المجاهد بوصولهم فأرسل إليهم الجمال والزّاد وجميع ما يحتاجون إليه
فحصل بينهم بعض مشاجرة

(1) طلّعوا وطلّع: سبق مرارا وهو هنا بمعنى أطلع من الفعل طلع (هنا بمعنى صعد) طلّع على وزن قفل وقد ورد مثله ميّز وقدّر

 

[Guure⁸]

His name as mentioned in the Arabic book
"History of Ash-Shiḥr and News of the Tenth Century
"تاريخ الشحر وأخبار القرن العاشر "
is Ahmad ibn Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi
أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي
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This is the Arabic text for those who want it :

وفيها وفي التي تقدم قبلها: ذكر تجريدة الإفرنجي التي وصلت السويس، وإنهم لما دخلوا دهلك طلّعوا (1) إلى برّ الحبشة خمسمائة افرنجي معونة لملك الحبشة الحطى، لما غلب عليه الإمام المجاهد أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي، وملك جميع الحبشة، وملك بعض أولاده، فاستغاث بالأفرنج فخرجوا له وطلعوا الحبشة بعددهم واجتمع اليهم النّصارى أهل الحبشة واقتتلوا هم والمجاهد فكسروا المجاهد، وظهرت شوكتهم وارتاع المجاهد والمسلمون وخشيوا (2) الظهور عليهم وأمدتهم الحبشة، وتعب المجاهد تعبا عظيما وحصلت الريبة عند العسكر فأرسل الإمام المجاهد الى زبيد إلى الباشة مصطفى نشار الرومي فأمده بخمسمائة رومي بعددهم، فطلعوا من ساحل بيلول وعلم المجاهد بوصولهم فأرسل إليهم الجمال والزّاد وجميع ما يحتاجون إليه
فحصل بينهم بعض مشاجرة

(1) طلّعوا وطلّع: سبق مرارا وهو هنا بمعنى أطلع من الفعل طلع (هنا بمعنى صعد) طلّع على وزن قفل وقد ورد مثله ميّز وقدّر


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Do u have any clue who they are?

 

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Do u have any clue who they are?

Page 290 :
( When Al-Imam Al-Mujahid Ahmad bin Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi defeated him and took control of all of Abyssinia ).
لما غلب عليه الإمام المجاهد أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي، وملك جميع الحبشة

 

[Maakhri2024]

Do u have any clue who they are?

But in page 306 :
( A dispute broke out in Bar Sa`d al-Din and Al-Abbas ibn al-Imam Ahmad Al-Mujahid was killed. He was killed by Al-Ḥuṭay and a group of Al-Maakhidah "Al-Maakhida" , who seized Dawaro (4). After this, Othman prepared to follow Al-Ḥuṭay to Dawaro, seized it, defeated a group of infidels and took revenge for Al-Abbas and his companions ).

وقع خلاف في برّ سعد الدين وقتل العباس بن الإمام أحمد المجاهد قتله الحطى وجماعة من الماخضه وأخذوا دواروا (4) ، وبعد أن عثمان جهّز خلف الحطى إلى دواروا فأخذها وهزم جماعة الكفرة وأخذ بثأر العباس وأصحابه

 

[Guure⁸]

Page 290 :
( When Al-Imam Al-Mujahid Ahmad bin Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi defeated him and took control of all of Abyssinia ).
لما غلب عليه الإمام المجاهد أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي، وملك جميع الحبشة


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Ik but I want to know who the makhidis are

 

[Maakhri2024]

Do u have any clue who they are?

in Page 290 : Al-Imam Al-Mujahid Ahmad bin Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi .
الإمام المجاهد أحمد بن إبراهيم الماخضي

But in page 306 : Al-Abbas ibn al-Imam Ahmad Al-Mujahid was killed by .... a group of Al-Maakhidah "Al-Maakhida" .
قُتِلَ العباس بن الإمام أحمد المجاهد قَتَلَهُ الحطى وجماعة من الماخضه

As you can see, there was a group of people called Al-Maakhidah, and it seems that Al-Imam Ahmad bin Ibrahim Al-Maakhidi belongs to this group called Al-Maakhidah.

 

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Ik but I want to know who the makhidis are

Al-Maakhidah "المخاضه" is a group of people,
while Al-Maakhidi "الماخضي" is a Nisba (person who belongs to Al-Maakhidah ).

In comparison, Al-Arab "العرب " is a group of people,
while Al-Arabi "العربي" is a Nisba (person who belongs to Al-Arab).

I checked the Arab clans in Yemen and Saudi Arabia,
but I could not find a tribe called Al-Maakhidi "الماخضي" in these countries.

 

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Source for Al Makhida

The Merits of Protestantism Demonstrated by the Character of Man

books.google.co.uk

 

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Machidas which is the Ethiopian term for Muslim kings of Muqdisho. Machida was the northwesternmost extent of Xamar, possibly the area of modern Bale and upper Shabelle

 

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Machidas which is the Ethiopian term for Muslim kings of Muqdisho. Machida was the northwesternmost extent of Xamar, possibly the area of modern Bale and upper Shabelle

But in arabic it wouldn't be written like that tho?

 

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But in arabic it wouldn't be written like that tho?

Because Arabs are not Portuguese nor Amharic speakers maybe? the Arabs transliterate all the time, they even transliterate words they first translated to the Latin authors. Ibn Said says he met the Hawiye هاوية of East Africa. The Europeans a few centuries later call it the Ajan coast, shortly after new Arab writers then rewrite the same location their predeccesors visited as اجان. It seems Machidas is another one of Arabs translating Habasha terminology.

 

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@Idilinaa

Portuguese Description

To Homepage To next page End of the Middle-ages Mogadishu by the Portuguese ------------------------------------------------------------------ Taken from: Ásia de João de Barros VOLUME I: dos feitos que os portugueses fizeram no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente. P303-4 …...

pieterderideaux.jimdofree.com

This post is where Ajan is confirmed as Hawiye. He also says the Maracatos are Somalis. As Garad Dinle said, Maqdishi or the kingdom of Muqdisho or Machidas were interchangeable terms for Somalis of the South Central who warred with the Ethiopians as many historians say the "Kings of Ajan" warred with them, Ajan by geography tends to encompass most of Somalia with its core being Magadoxo and Machidas

 

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The post i just sent you came from this link, pieter derideaux who writes on medieval africa

--- Medieval East Africa ---

Translations of what Foreign Authors wrote about East Africa (Land of the Zanj, Zenj, Zinj, Zang) during the Classical times and Middle Ages

pieterderideaux.jimdofree.com