@ibfky10 انا لله وإنا إليه راجعون
May Allah have mercy on him and may his soul find peace. I pray that his family is well and that Allah showers his mercy upon them.
17th-19th century Matchlock guns used by various Sultanates of the Somali Peninsula. Matchlocks reached Somalia via Arab/Ottoman traders and Indian Ocean networks from the 16th-17th centuries. The Somali matchlock rifle (likely 18th century).
🧵 The earliest mention of Somali Peninsula by an Islamic scholar and historian from 8th century called Shaykh Al-Wāqidi, he served as a Qadi (judge) to the Abbasid caliph Harun al-Rashid and he was a student of the Great Imam Mālik ibn Anas once upon a time in Medina.
Waxaa la weriyey in Xudhayfa bin al-Yamaan, Alle raalli ha ka noqdee, uu yiri:
“Dadka waxay caado u lahaayeen inay Rasuulka Alle (ﷺ) wax ka weydiiyaan Wanaagga, laakiin anigu waxaan caado u lahaa inaan wax ka weydiiyo Xumaanta (Sharka), anigoo ka cabsanaya inaan ku dhaco.”
🧵 📜 The Somali Shafi'i scholar who was a Qadi (judge) and a scholar in Rasulid Sultanate Shaykh Ahmad ibn Abd Allāh al-Jabartī died around late 1300s:
Al-Khazrajī (d.1409) the Yemeni historian mentions the scholar had his roots from the Somali peninsula and was one of the..
✍️Development of af-Wadaad (Arabic script) of the Somali language by the Zayla’is between 10th to 13th century
The famous scholar Ibn Al-Jāzari (d.1429) wrote about this during 1400s, he said in his book the Zāyla’is adopted the arabic letter ض and started pronunce it with Lām.
@takamil1 @al_Samancii Why you do you insult a whole clan? Aren’t we the first clan who fought off the brits? Aren’t we part of the founding fathers of the Darwish? You filthy qabilist may Allah give you sanity.