known as Gaga.
Sources
Tazyīn, 46-9; Bello (1994), 10.
Biography
One of his teachers was Jibrīl b. ʿUmar. Al-Muṣṭafā in turn was a teacher of ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Fodiye, who elegized him in a Q. rāʾiyya.
Works
1. al-Sulāla ʿalā ’l-Risāla.
Takh. of the Risālat al-naṣāʾiḥ of ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad Fodiye (q.v.), written in 1208/1793-4.
Publ. in Thaqāfa, 555-64; also at end of ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad, Tazyīn al-waraqāt (pp. 91-102), Kano: Oluseyi Press, 1382/1962 (copy in NU/Hunwick, 243).
Comm. by Zād b. Muḥammad Saʿd; see next entry.