The famous Sheikh Darood/ Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti (founder of the Darod clan) also has a seemingly fraudulent genealogy that actually holds up somewhat less than Sheikh Ishaq's does if you place it under any kind of scrutiny.
There are two variants of Sheikh Darod's genealogy but both are fundamentally the same in where they fall apart:
The first was one I always never doubted in terms of validity because it was to be found in a 9th Century history book written by the somewhat famous
Al-Masudi, the book being called
Aqeeliyoon however it was written roughly 200 years after the genealogy's founding father (
Aqeel bin Abi Talib) died:
Abdirahman Bin Isma'il Bin Ibrahim Bin Abdirahman Bin Muhammed Bin Abdi Samad Bin Hanbal Bin Mahdi Bin Ahmed Bin Abdalle Bin Muhammed Bin Aqeel Bin Abi-Talib Bin Abdul-Mutalib Bin Hashim Bin Qusaya
The other somewhat distinct genealogy is a more recent extraction from what I grasp from a work titled
Allaa'i Alsuniyah Fi Al-Aqab Al-Aqeeliyah and it goes as follows:
Da'ud ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Abdulsamad ibn Ahmed ibn Abdallah ibn Ahmed Ibn Ismail ibn Ibrahim ibn Abdallah ibn Isma'il ibn Ali ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Hamid ibn Abdallah ibn Ibrahim ibn Ali ibn Ahmed ibn Abdallah ibn Muslim ibn Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Aqeel ibn Abi-Talib Al-Hashimi Al-Qurashi
The second genealogy falls flat in more than one way, to be fully honest. It's completely impossible as what is thought to be the Darod clan origin. This genealogy separates Aqeel Ibn Abi Talib (the claimed ultimate Darod clan ancestor) and the Darod clan's founder (in this genealogy dubbed "Da'ud") by about
22 generations.
Sheikh Darod's Tomb
This is the genealogy of a man who lived anywhere along the lines of the 12th to 13th centuries (a
generation = 25 years in most cases). It cannot be the founding genealogy followed by the Darod clan or dynasties of theirs such as the Warsangali nor can it be the Aqeeli-Jaberti origin of the
Walashma who essentially seem to claim descent from the same lineage as the Darod.
Why? By the 13th century the
Warsangali dynastywas
supposedly already founded in Northern Somalia and began to rule and conquer small areas of the coast. The Warsangali Sultanate's supposed founder
Abdullahi Dhidin's trace back to the Darod clan founder at this juncture was as follows:
Abdullahi bin Koge bin Warmaeke bin Mahamed bin Mahamud bin Salah bin Hantale bin Amlale bin Abdi bin Mahamad bin Abdirahman
How is he descended from a man who lived around the same time he did by about 9 generations (~225 years)?
However both the first genealogy and the second one fall flat in one particular way that's even more important than what's outlined above. The ancestor "Muhammad" who is supposed to be a son of Aqeel ibn Abi Talib; doesn't seem to have existed...
Aqeel ibn Abi Talib was a well-known figure of his time, cousin to
the Prophet of Islam and a brother to the highly venerated Ali ibn Abi Talib whose own line would grow to become nothing short of legendary. He was known to have had at least six sons as even a mere Wikipedia search on him will confirm for you:
Muslim ibn Aqeel, Jaffar ibn Aqeel, Musa ibn Aqeel, Abdul Rahman ibn Aqeel, Abdullah ibn Aqeel, Abi Saeed ibn Aqeel
Notice anything? There's no Muhammad. In fact the only evidence I've found after much digging that a
Muhammad Ibn Aqeel even existed is that he is the claimed Darod clan ancestor. The fact that he is listed in the Darod clan genealogy is the main proof that he ever existed... In terms of actual records on Aqeel ibn Abi Talib's offspring, battles and so on of the time-> there is no record of a Muhammad ibn Aqeel ibn Abi Talib. He did not seem to exist.
The Islamic
Caliphate under Ali ibn Abi Talib
Hell, look at
his Wikipedia page alone where it is claimed that he was killed in the
Battle of Karbala(with no source might I add) and this too is false. That battle's notable casualties including those of Aqeeli descent were well documented; a
Muhammad ibn Aqeel was simply not among them/ there is no record of him in the battle though it is well-known that his
supposed brother Muslim ibn Aqeel participated in the battle. Please do look into this yourself if you find it hard to believe.
