KITAAB
BUSHRAA L AH’BAAB WA L KHULAAN BIMAA THABATA FII ANNA SHAYKH IBRAHIM INYAAS
HUWA L MUJADADU FII AADHAA ZAMAAN;
BOOK
OF GLAD-TIDINGS TO THE BELOVED AND DISSENTERS, ON WHAT HAS BEEN FIRMLY
ESTABLISHED, THAT SHAYKH IBRAHIM INYAAS (RTA) IS THE REVIVALIST (OF THE SUNNAH)
OF THIS ERA/TIME
CULLED FROM:
KANZU L AWLAAD WA
DHURAARII FII TAAREEKHI L AJDAAD WA DIYAARI MIN QABAA’IL AL-FULANI AL-AHRAARI
WA DHIKRI ANSAABIHIM AL-AKHYAAR;
TREASURE CHEST OF THE
SONS AND SCIONS,
ON THE HISTORY
OF PROGENITORS AND DYNASTIES OF THE ITENIRANT FULANI TRIBE
AND THE RECOUNTING OF THEIR VIRTUOUS RACE & CLAN
BY:
THE GREAT SCHOLAR AND EMINENT
TEACHER;
ABDULLAH
POPULARLY CALLED BABAYARO SAMBO IBN SAMBO KULWA,
FROM THE ORGANISATION OF OUR
MASTER (SHAYKH) UTHMAN IBN FODIO, LIGHT OF THE TIMES (MAY ALLAH
ENSHROUD/IMMERSE HIM IN HIS MERCY)
WRITTEN IN: FULANI (FULFUDE) LANGUAGE
IN WHICH HE POINTS TO/PREDICTS
THE EMERGENCE TIME OF THE ASSISTANCE AND DEPUTY OF THE GREAT SEAL,
AND OF THE EXPECTED LEADER,
IMAM AL-MAHDI (MAY ALLAH BE
PLEASED WITH HIM) WITH HIS STATEMENT; MAY ALLAH ENSHROUD/IMMERSE HIM IN HIS
MERCY, AMEEN
PUBLISHER: ALIYYU KABEER
MAI-KAYAN-FAYDAH ZAYTAWA
PRINTING DATE: JUNE, 2009
(JUMADAH THANI, 1430)
AUTOGRAPH:
A GIFT FROM SIDI
MUHAMMAD-NADHEER (NAZIRBAYI) IBN SHAYKH BASHEER IBN SHAYKH MODIBO ALIYU JANBU
OF GOMBE, >>TO ISMA’EEL BAKARE
TRANSLATED (INTO ENGLISH
LANGUAGE) BY:
MUQADAM SULAYMAN ODETAYO
(email: sulaymankaolakh@yahoo.com Mobile: +2348033724427)
TYPED AND ARRANGED BY:
ISMA’EEL BAKARE
(email: smilebak2004@gmail.com Mobile: +2348034656467)
IN THE NAME OF
ALLAH, MOST GRACIOUS, MOST MERCIFUL
PEACE AND
BLESSINGS UPON THE NOBLE PROPHET (MUHAMMAD) – SAW
THE
TEN LINES/COUPLETS/VERSES
1) Miteema ALLAHI
muwwadi Salatu # Duunulaadu wa me nana jundu Mahdi
2) Guddu gurkawaawi naga tun liidu gur gal # UUnatu
jama’aar wuudu waluubi Mahdi
3) Gurku un bu
nuwurtu tun wuddi gur gal # Kanku tukiibi makkiiwii mabi Mahdi
4) Tuawangi unuun
hilaamiibi muwdun # Saffa walana gu’uutu fuusayni Mahdi
5) Hitaadi min
Sharafi gurku uuni wanginuti # Kanku
Ballo wa Mawdu jama’aan Mahdi
6) Gurku uun
tiida mawdi fayafya duudi # Imma buluul jamaydu fuunaandi Mahdi
7) Nuddunubu balju
waara mau’uku numaodi # waba ra minuka mawdi gitti muusuuruudi
8) Uwna yudunnan
ziyaara burnaadu tagli # unidisa ruuji makku saruuji Mahdi
9) Sharafuddeen
buu njamuuri makku # Ibrahima widi ballo
wa Mahdi
10) Gimi dii
saffu gam jamuidu gaayum # balli limqal diisu aan jamdu Mahdi
TRANSLATION
OF THE TEN LINES/COUPLETS/VERSES
1st Verse:- I thank
you Oh Allah, and (I) invoke blessings on the prophet #
Now, draw nearer, oh questioner on the
Imam al-Mahdi.
2nd Verse:- A man
will emerge from the lands of the west, and that man and his
hordes
of followers will help the Mahdi on the upliftment of the religion, and
eradication of disbelief, innovation and illegality.
3rd Verse:- That man
will emerge/appear/appear from the (far) west and his
followers will be the nation/people of
Mahdi.
4th Verse:- When
this man appears, you all and your leaders will/should not
follow
anyone better than him by following his orders due to the decadence of issues,
and corruption of affairs except for the Mahdi. That is, issues will not be
resolved nor solutions proffered except by him, due to the deterioration of
affairs and sectionalisation of all.
5th Verse:- In the
year of manifestation of his exaltation of the faith (MIN
SHARAFIN),
coinciding with the year 1370 in the numerical tables of Abjad, and that is counting from the hijrah
of the Prophet (SAW), and that is indicative of the reference from the earlier
lines followed by these lines wherein he said Sharafu Kanku, and that means he
is the great helper/assistant, with his followers, to the Imam al-Mahdi.
6th Verse:- The man
has a wide radiant forehead, with a sign on his face.
Understand this, Oh Questioner! on the
Mahdi’s attributes.
7th Verse:- He is
Black-skinned, full bearded and wide-chested with piercing dark
eyes like those of a cat.
8th Verse:- That man
will frequently visit the best of men (Muhammad) and his
parents’ name will be like of Imam
Mahdi.
9th Verse:-
Sharafuddeen is his agnomen (alias)/nickname truly, for that man is
the
personification/embodiment of virtues, and great-tidings, for he will bring grace & honour to the deen
(religion) of Islam after it will be dirtied and downgraded, as if he is the
Imam Mahdi himself. Ibrahim is his name,and he is the greatest of all helpers
to the Imam al-Mahdi.
10th Verse:- These
ten verses ‘meaning these ten lines/couplets I composed’
because of the questioner just
like the first ten lines before it; i.e.
just like the first ten line
for line, equally word for word, letter for
letter except for the
ranging/rhyming in which in which both poems
differ, and the meanings of
these ten lines are just like that of the
ten before them.
End-Note from Author;
My father Thambo Kulwa ibn
Ahmad ibn Mujail got the meanings from Shaykh Uthman directly and I (Babayaro
Sambo) got it from my father directly and Allah knows best. Peace.
THE END
MEANING OF THE FOURTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
Many
of the saints have found it so, and its likeness. So he was nicknamed “Muhyideen (Reviver of
the Religion)”. Amongst the Angels and Spirits, just as he was nicknamed as
Mujaddid (Reformer/Revivalist) and Nur Zamaan (Light of the Age) amongst men
and Jinns (Genie). Thus did my father, Muhammad Sambo ibn Ahmad ibn Mujeel
cull/quote it from his revere brother Abu-l-Hassan, Abdullah ibn Fodio (May
Allah be pleased with him) expressly, just as my father earlier mentioned
informed me. Then followed them Izzatu-deen, dear brother, youngest of
brothers. (Izzatu-deen: was his revered brother Abu-l-Hassan, Abdullah ibn
Fodio, and that was his secre/hidden name, and because of that he became
importantly reverently endowed amongst men).
MEANING OF THE FIFTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
Then
Sulayman who was above the Axial Saints (Awtaad) or over them. This Sulayman
was a Taraqi descendant/born, contrary to what many of them assumed; that he
was Sulayman Shutli, Emir of Kano, who had reigned/ruled jurisprudeilly over
the axes (awtaad) amongst the saints, whose pedestals was higher than that of
the Nujabah and Nuqabah (saints),
regardless of the and others
beside them. One of them is given/made the authority, as the Pole of (all)
Poles who is also. The Succor (Gawth) and Owner of the Era at all times, and is
never removed/absent at all times, until the blowing of the first trumpent, and
the of the believers from the
light of the time, or Shaykh (Master) Uthman expressly/directly just as I
reported/culled it from my father earlier mentioned.
MEANING OF THE SIXTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
“Abdul-Waliyy”
is his son Muhammad Bello, and that is his secret/hidden name and because of
that he controlled the affairs of muslims and many (other) people. He achieved
total acceptance over and above all his peers and contemporaries. Then followed
or came ‘Abdul-Mawd’ meaning ‘Abdul-Kareem’ for the meaning of
Mawd
(with letter ‘mim’ having a (b) fatiha diacritical vowel and letter waw (w)
having a sukun (silent) vowel is the replacement of letter Dal (D) in
Fulani/Fulfude language it means Kareem (Honourable) or Kabeer (Grand) he was
an Arab by tribe, from the Sulaiman Arabs, with letter Kaf (k) having fat’ha,
vowel (a) and sin (s) having sukun (silent) vowel and letter lam (l) having
fat’ha resident (of ‘kaslat’) and from amongst the Arabs of Tukara (of birth/tribe)
spelled with Ta (t) having dumma mark
(u) vowel and ra (r) having having (a) vowel, both places are in East Africa,
i.e. White (part of) Africa near the salty sea. So said Abul Hassan, Abdullah
ibn Fodio for he said repeatedly, as Shaykh Uthman told us when asked for
additional explanation that he was of the Arabs of the kaslat country
residents, and among the Tukara-born Arabs.
Shaykh
Uthman also told us again “but all of us, we and all those earlier mentioned
are all underlsubjects of the Pole of all Poles (Qutbul Aqtaab) who is the
solely-unique unifying succor and he is the owner of our times just as Imam
Mahdi being expected is under the rule of the succor of his era and the owner
of his time whenever he (mahdi) appears as it is in the books of unveiling”;
and the questioner (of Shaykh Uthman Fodio) was his brother Abul Hassan,
Abdullah ibn Fodio, and all these are living saints still on the surface of the
earth now (alive).
MEANING OF THE
SEVENTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
As for those who
came after them, they are Ibrahim, who ennobled the religion (Sharafuddeen),
and that is his alias and hidden/secret name, for the religion (of Islam) was
ennobled in his time. Shaykh Uthman was asked further explanation on him and he
said ‘he is amongst the people of the West (Maghreb)’ and he gave detailed
explanation to the extent that Shaykh said concerning him ‘he is most
assuredly/probably the intended in the Prophetic Hadith ‘The Hour will not
arrive until a man will rise/emerge from amongst the people of the West, his
father’s name will be as mine and his mother’s name will be as/like mine, he
will fill the land with justice just as you fill vessels’’. And in another
report “…….until a man emerges from the West, his father’s name will be the
same as mine and his mother’s”’.
I will quote
lines (of couplets) filled with explanations of his attributes, as composed by
Shaykh Uthman in this regard, by GOD’s will, in which Shaykh explained his
attributes in detail after these lines. And Jamalil Badri’s (Fullmoon’s beauty)
is Hussamu-deen (Religious Radiance) which in Arabic means ‘wide or extensive’.
Shaykh Uthman, the composer (of the lines) was asked about this Jamalul Badri,
and he answered saying ‘he is probably/assuredly among the great helpers of the
earlier-mentioned Ibrahim or he is the Imam Mahdi himself, all of which is
authentic’. He did not explain/expound any further.
MEANING OF THE
EIGHTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
As for the
above-mentioned Hussamu, he is the one granted the seal of the perfected saints
on religious pedestals. Shaykh Uthman was asked about this Hussamu and he said;
‘He is the expected Imam al-Mahdi, the Jihadist that was mentioned as being
under the rule/authority of another, despite his perfect liberation and
complete unveiling and the many manifestations of his celestial (heavenly) and
terrestrial (earthly) miens, but he is the Amir (Administrator) of everything
in his time from the perspective of a reigning king, and not from the
perspective of the pedestal of ruling authority, gnoscism and secret
manifestations.
MEANING OF THE
NINTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
A year from his
Hijrah (Migration), peace and blessings be upon him, Sharfu Kanku emerged. The
meaning of the phrase ‘Sharafu kanku’ is the year 1370. Shaykh Uthman was asked
for further explanation on this, and he said ‘that year is the year of
emergence of Ibrahim, who is the greatest helper of the expected/anticipated
Imam al-Mahdi, but GOD knows best, of his strivings, battles, struggles and
armies, with the polytheists, infidels, atheists and people of hypocrisy’.
MEANING OF THE
TENTH COUPLET/POEM LINE;
I have completed
these ten lines on gratitude or for GOD. And I send invocations of peace on the
unique child whose parents had no other (birth) before or after him. That is
the meaning of the word ‘Bajju’ in Fulani/Fulfude language, just as earlier
noted in my father’s book ‘Al-Kanz (The Treasue Chest)’. Explanation of this is
that he is the one I invoke blessings on, the owner of this Muhammadan nation,
our master, Leader and Prophet, Muihammad (Peace Be Upon Him).
Note that the
explanation of these lines/couplets, I culled/got from my father just as my
father got it from Shaykh Uthman directly, may ALLAH enshroud them both in his
Mercy, when I sought his help on the translation of these ten couplets/lines
and others, from amongst the Fulani/Fulfude poems found in this book
composed/written by Shaykh Uthman extensively. Thus my father got other Fulfude
poems/compositions from Shaykh Uthman directly especially from the hidden
mysteries/secrets therein, not because he (my father) is deficient in the
Fulani/Fulfude language, for he is free of wants from others in the Fulani
language because of his total/perfect command and understanding of it. Wa
Salaam (Peace).
THE END
Among the poetic
compositions of our Shaykh Uthman ibn Fodio, may ALLAH immerse/enshroud him in
His mercy, written in the Fulani language in which he indicated/referred to the
attribute of the earlier-mentioned Ibrahim, in ten lines before this, when he
was asked for further explanation on the
afore-mentioned Ibrahim when he was mentioned in his presence in these lines
where he said; ‘On the controversy of Ibrahim Sharafuddeen….(to the end)’.
Again, may ALLAH immerse/enshroud him in His mercy, Ameen.
(From the writings found in the
book “Treasure Chest of the Sons and Scions on the history of the Progenitors
and Dynasties of the Itinerant Fulani Tribe and the Recounting of their
Virtuous Race & Clan {Kanzu L Awlaad Wa Dhuraarii Fii Taareekhi L Ajdaad Wa
Diyaari Min Qabaa’il Al-Fulani Al-Ahraari Wa Dhikri Ansaabihim Al-Akhyaar}”
authored by the eminent scholar, the realter of the master of masters, the
erudite Jurisprudent/Jurist, the expert and exponent, the complete Arif
(gnostic); Muhammad Sambo ibn Ahmad ibn Mujail popularly called Sambo Kulwa,
the Fulani; Jugadi Toro Widdi Kulwa, al-Bakuwwi (Died in the year
‘Hamrash=1248’ from hijrah of the Prophet (SAW), aged 72. He was one of the
great companions of Shaykh Uthman, may GOD be please with min and all the
believers, Ameen and Ameen)).
Completed to the thanksgiving
of GOD, and the goodness of His help. May His peace and blessings be upon the
prophet (SAW).
TRANSLATED (INTO ENGLISH
LANGUAGE) BY:
MUQADAM SULAYMAN ODETAYO
TYPED AND ARRANGED BY:
ISMA’EEL BAKARE
ALHAMDULILLAH!!!
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