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Baha al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad bin Yussuf al Djanadi. He was a native of al-Djanad; jurist in Aden, Zabid, and al-Djanad, he died in 1332. Kitab Al-Suluk is the only known work of Al-Djanadi; it is an important biographical dictionary of Yemen until 1323AD. He adds so nice little anecdotes to the knowledge of East Africa.

Taken from: L’Arabie marchande. Etat et commerce sous les sultans rasulides du Yemen : Eric Vallet

                    al-maktaba.org كتاب السلوك في طبقات العلماء والملوك

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…..Shaikh Abu al-Fida Ismail bin Ahmed bin Daniel bin Mohammed al-Hormuzi …….differences between the kings of Hormuz dominated by a man of the country who hated the Faqih (1) and (his friends) took him out of Hormuz, and he went to Maqdishu in their boat, and the wind blew them away…..the year of nineteen and seven hundred. When he entered Aden, the disciples came to him and took him away as they had taken him away from the Zanji. ……(10)

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Abu Zakariyya a sharif of Hadramawt (2) who left for Maqdisu where he largely extended their knowledge in the city and the surrounding land.

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In 1239 the Sultan al Mansur Umar (3), orders the taking of the town of al Sihr (4) out of the hands of Abd al Rahman ibn Rasid ibn Iqbal (5). He stations soldiers and puts them under two of his emirs. Burayq who is the governor and a naqib (6) called al Asbahi head  of the troops. But the naqib (6) becomes the enemy of the governor, he kills him, and flees with the income of the town to Maqdisu then died Mansour and Sultan Abdul Rahman presented to the King Muzaffar (7) gifts like a great piece of ambergris, the tusks of an elephant, and fragrant musk, so he was rewarded with praise.

Taken from: Yaman, Its Early Mediæval History   by Umarah ibn Ali al-Hakami - 1892

(The sermon =kutba given by Aly ibn Mahdy calling to bring the Abyssinians that ruled Zabid and the surrounding land into slavery)

I swear by Allah, unto none but unto me and unto you hath God committed the doom of the Abyssinians. Soon, under his will, ye shall know. By Allah the most great, the Lord of Moses and of Abraham, I shall be unto them as the suffocating wind of Ad (8) and as the exterminating cry of Thamud (9). Verily, I speak unto you and ye are not deceived, I promise and your hopes shall not be frustrated. Of a certainty, though now ye be few ye shall be many, though ye be humble ye shall be honoured, though ye be lowly ye shall be exalted, and your fame shall be a proverb among Arabs and non-Arabs that God may requite them that do evil according to their deeds, and that unto them that do good he may grant his surpassing rewards. The time is near. Await with patience. By the Divine Truth of God most great, charged unto every believer and maintainer of the Unity, I will of a certainty give unto you the daughters of the Abyssinians and their sisters, to be your servants, and I will deliver into your hands their riches and their children.

Then he recited the verse of the Koran: God hath promised unto such of you as believe and are well-doing, that they shall of a certainty inherit the earth, as it hath been inherited by those (the faithful) that were before them. Verily, he will establish among them the faith they have willingly received and of a certainty, for their fears he will substitute safety.

(He succeeded in AH 554).

(1) Faqih: A Faqih is an expert in fiqh (Jurist).

(2) Hadramawt: Hadramaut: eastern part of Yemen.

(3) Sultan al Mansur Umar: Al-Malik al-Mansur Nur al-Din Abu al-Fath ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul was the first Rasulid Sultan of Yemen, from 1228 to 1249.

(4) Sihr; coastal town in Hadhramaut in eastern Yemen.

(5) Abd al Rahman ibn Rasid ibn Iqbal : This paragraph he copied from Ibn Hatim: Kitab al Simt (Book of measurements) (1295).

(6) naqib: a chief, headman, or leader, especially of descendants of the prophet Muhammad.

(7) King Muzaffar: Rasulid Sultan al-Malik al-Muzaffar Yusuf I (1249-1295).

(8) wind of Ad: the black tempest of the adulterers is the Koranic wind of Ad.

(9) the exterminating cry of Thamud: Thamud kingdom was the first existing kingdom on Arabian peninsula. Thamud is mentioned twenty-three times in the Quran as part of a moralistic lesson about God's destruction of sinful nations. The destruction of Thamud include a thunderbolt, a storm, a shout, and an earthquake.

(10) this person is mentioned by: Abu Makhrama (1521); Ibn al-Ahdal (1451); Al Janadi (1332).

Khoury, Ibrahim 1999 (‏سلطنة هرمز العربية :‏: ‏سيطرة سلطنة هرمز العربية على الخليج ... ) had the following to say about this paragraph: The people of Hormuz Faideh were divided, some of them stood against him (the Sultan). The jurist Abu Al-Dhabij Ismail bin Ahmad Daniyal, nicknamed Al-Qalhati, who was born in Hormuz in the year 686 AH / 1287 - 1288 AD, was almost killed because of his praise of Sultan Bahramshah. However, some of the people of Hormuz became disgraced to them, so their intercession was accepted, and he was forced to leave the country. He went to Maqdishu, and from there to Aden, and all of this was completed in the year 718 AH / 1318 AD. This jurist, despite his lineage to Qalhat, lived in Hormuz for at least a year 718 AH / 1318 AD.