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Interesting, so he was known to have no descendants but one genealogy found is how you connect him to the Walashma.
Walashma Dynasty
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He was Dir, the Walashma also claim lineage from Aqil ibn Abi Talib(like all Irir Samaale and Darod.) which is fictional and more for prestige, Islam spread from the coast to the interior via trade from Somalis.
"According to thirteenth-century Arab geographer Ibn Sa'id al-Maghribi, Ifat was alternatively known as Jabarta."
al-Zayla'i, Al Jabarti, al-Jabarti, al-Idrisi, Al Barbar, Aji, Ṣūmāl , Tumali, are just a few to name for us, this notion of Arabs living amongst us and ruling whole dynasties are a myth.
"Zeila's two-mihrab mosque Masjid al-Qiblatayn dates to about the 7th century, and is one of the oldest mosques in Africa. In the late 9th century, Al-Yaqubi wrote that Muslims were living along the northern Somali seaboard.”
The material culture of Northern Somalia especially encomposing modern day Somaliland is very similar to those of Zeila and Berbera, several historical towns have been dug around modern day Borama containing artefacts dating to the 12th to 18th century from as far as China.
"The Walashma dynasty are regarded by scholars as the founders of the Ifat Sultanate. According to the Egyptian historian Al-Maqrizi, the ruling class of the Ifat Sultanate were Arabs from the Hejaz, while the population mostly consisted of Muslims. Ifat first emerged when Umar ibn Dunya-huz, later to be known as Sultan Umar Walasma, carved out his own kingdom and conquered the Sultanate of Shewa located in northern Hararghe. In 1288 Sultan Wali Asma successfully imposed his rule on Hubat, Zeila and other Muslim states in the region. Taddesse Tamrat explains Sultan Walashma's military acts as an effort to consolidate the Muslim territories in the Horn of Africa in much the same way as Emperor Yekuno Amlak was attempting to consolidate the Christian territories in the highlands during the same period."
"Further light on the Dir advance and Galla withdrawal seems to be afforded by an Arabic manuscript describing the history of the Gadabursi clan. This chronicle opens with an account of the wars of Imam 'Ali Si'id (d. 1392), from whom the Gadabursi today trace their descent and who is described as the only Muslim leader fighting on the Western flank in the armies of Sa'd ad-Din (d. 1415), ruler of Zeila."
These Arabs they claim were more likely to be Somalis traveling into the interior preaching Islam.
"Al-Yaqubi, an Armenian Muslim scholar and traveler of the 9th century, offers fascinating historical insights. Below is an intriguing quote attributed to him.
The Walashma Kingdom, also known as the Adal Kingdom, was historically centered in Somali territories, spanning from southern Djibouti to western Somaliland and into eastern Ethiopia (the Somali Region). This dynasty played a significant role during the Middle Ages, ruling both the Ifat Sultanate and the Adal Sultanate.
"According to Sheikh Abi-Bakr Ali Alawi, a medieval Harari historian, in his writings, Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn—an individual of the Dir tribe—was the progenitor and founder of the Walashma Dynasty. The Dir tribe, recognized as one of the ancient noble Somali tribes, continues to have a significant presence in Zeila to this day. Sheikh Abi-Bakr Alawi affirms this connection in his book, stating that Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn hailed from the local Dir clan and was instrumental in establishing the Walashma Dynasty."
(Source: Quath, Faati. Islam Walbaasha Cabra Taarikh [Islam and Abyssinia Throughout History], 1957)
Even the Ethiopian chronicles acknowledge that the Ifat Sultanate was a Somali Sultanate. While the kingdom encompassed diverse conquered peoples, its core identity and leadership remained distinctly Somali.
The Eidagale, who are Isaaq, protect his shrine to this day. They are primarily T-L208, a unique subclade paternal marker for Dir."
Notice T-FGC92488 tmrca date, this the last common ancestor of all Gadabuursi, Cisse and T Isaaq. The lineage itself arose 1600 years ago, but the most recent ancestor shared by all current members lived 800 years ago.
