b. c. 1198/1784-5, d. 20 Shawwāl 1258/24 November 1842.
Sources
al-Ḥājj Saʿīd, Taʾrīkh Sukkutu, in Houdas (1899-1901), 199-206 (trans. 323-37); ʿArf al-rayḥān, 20-3; Ḍabṭ, 76-81; Hogben & Kirk-Greene (1966), 402; Last (1967a), 65, 81-3 et passim.
Biography
Slightly younger than his brother Muḥammad Bello, he may have made a bid for the succession on Sh. ʿUthmān’s death, but he lacked Bello’s charisma and tended to be more popular among the pious and learned than in ruling circles. Last (1965a), 65, describes him as “like his uncle ʿAbdu…