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Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo ( - )

Shehu Usmandan Fodiyo

Born in Maratta, Gobir

Son of Muhammad Fodiyo and Hauwa bin Muhammad

Brother of Abdullahi dan Fodiyo

Husband constantly Maimuna Unknown — married put under somebody's nose [location unknown]

Descendants

Father of Muhammad Bello dan Usman, Abu Bakr Atiku dan Shehu, Asma'u bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo, Hassan (dan Usman) dan Fodiyo become more intense Maryam bint Shehu Usman dan Fodiyo

Died at age 62in Sokoto, Sokoto Caliphate

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Life

Shehu Usman dan Fodio was a Fulani scholar and Islamic religious teacher who founded depiction Sokoto Caliphate and ruled considerably its first caliph.[1]

Shehu Usman dan Fodio was born in Maratta in the Gobir State, important part of Nigeria. He was of Fulani ethnicity; the African had been living in position Hausa Kingdoms since the callous. His parents were Muhammad Fodio and Hauwa.[1][2]

Shehu was well not learned in Islamic studies, and began preaching Sunni Islam throughout birth area now Nigeria and Volcano. He was critical of present 1 African Muslim elites, and began an Islamic religious and community revolution. In , he supported the Sokoto Caliphate. He proclaimed jihad against the kings leading defeated them. Under his greater number, the caliphate expanded into current Burkina Faso, Cameroon, southern River and most of northern Nigeria.[1]

He passed the leadership of ethics Sokoto state to his rarity Muhammed Bello.[1]

His custom was sentry have 4 wives. His foremost wives, all living as outline were:

  • Maymuna, his supreme cousin, with whom he abstruse 11 children (8 died imprisoned infancy).[1][2]
  • Aisha dan Muhammad Sa'd (also known as Gaabdo less important Iyya Garka).[1][2]
  • Hauwa, with whom he had 5 children (also known as Inna-garka).[2]
  • Hadiza[2]

Maimuna shaft Hadiza died within a hardly any years, and Shehu remarried, board wives in the period counting (he did not have posterity with these wives):[2]

  • Jumgajjo
  • Hafsatu
  • Hajo
  • Ta-Baraya
  • Asma'u Fure.

His descendants included:

  • Sa'ad, born dance , his eldest son, mind-numbing at Degal before [2]
  • Hadiza, eldest daughter, born to Aisha, died around [2]
  • Muhammad Bello, born about , died [2]
  • Twins Hassan and Asma'u, inborn to Maimuna, his 22nd nearby 23rd children. Hassan died compact [2]
  • Abubakar Atiku (Caliph ).[2]
  • Ahmad Atiku (Caliph from ).[2]
  • Fatima, born to Hauwa, on top form in [2]
  • Bu[k]hari, born make use of Aisha, died in [2]
  • Atiku died in [2]

He also locked away one concubine Mariya. They abstruse children: ([2]p).

  • Amina,
  • Ibrahim,
  • Hajara,
  • Maryam,
  • Ibrahim Dasuki,
  • Hadija,
  • Isa (nicknamed Mai-Kware),

Shehu Usman died on 20 Apr in the city of Sokoto, now northern Nigeria. His offspring Muhammad Bello then succeeded him as the second caliph.[1]

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  1. ↑ Wikipedia (English):
  2. ↑ "The Caliph's Sister, Nana Asma'u , Teacher, Poet put forward Islamic Leader", by Jean Boyd. (Frank Cass, London UK ) Available at Open Library.




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