ʿUthmān b. Muḥammad Fodiye b. ʿUthmān b. Ṣāliḥ al-Fallātī al-Ashʿarī al-Mālikī, known in Arabic as Ibn Fūdī, in Fulfulde as Usmanu bi Fodiye, and in Hausa as Usmanu ɗan Fodio or simply the Shehu, b. 29 Ṣafar 1168/15 December 1754, d. 3 Jumādā II 1232/20 April 1817.

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