Easy Expenditure
I searched out and began chronicling the elaborations of the tales of the extraordinary personages of these regions, which are pleasant for minds and intellects and the narrations that gratify the hearing of those who would listen.
I walked carefully under the leaves of these narratives realizing that no one before me had sauntered under its cool shade. I learned much from the light of these histories and fulfilled my desires in it, although I was obstructed by obligations, compressed time and heavy responsibilities.
Then it occurred to me after much seeking Allah’s direction to make endeavors towards the objective of recording this history so that Allah would benefit me by means of it and those among the Muslims who came across it.
I ask Allah for His assistance in writing it, revising it and arranging it and I ask for His success in completing it. He is the best of helpers. I have named it: Easy Expenditure Regarding the History of the Lands of Takruur.
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Introduction
- (Chapter 1) On the Meaning of the Name Takrur
- (Chapter 2) The Boundaries of the Lands of Takrur
- (Chapter 3) On a Biography of the Scholars of Baghirma
- (Chapter 4) On a Description of Bornu
- (Chapter 5) On the Scholars of the Land of Bornu
- (Chapter 7) On the Land of Hausa
- (Chapter 8) On the Seven Hausa Kingdoms
- (Chapter 9) On a Biography of the Scholars of Hausaland
- (Chapter 10) On the Biography of Shehu Uthman ibn Fuduye’
- (Chapter 11) On the Noble Virtues of the Shehu
- (Chapter 12) On the Essence of the Teachings of the Shehu
- (Chapter 13) On how the Shehu Began His Lectures
- (Chapter 14) On what the Shehu Mentioned on the Science of Tawheed
- (Chapter 15) On what the Shehu Mentioned Concerning Jurisprudence
- (Chapter 16) On what the Shehu Mentioned on the Science of Spiritual Purification
- (Chapter 17) On what the Shehu Mentioned Concerning the Verse which Incite Terror
- (Chapter 18) On what the Shehu Mentioned Concerning which Incite Yearning
- (Chapter 19) On the Conclusion and what the Shehu Discussed in His Lectures
- (Chapter 20) On the Improvement of the Affairs of the Shehu
- (Chapter 21) On Mentioning the Battle of Konni
- (Chapter 22) On Mentioning the Battle of Tabkin Kwotto
- (Chapter 23) On the Conclusion of the News Regarding the Battle of Tabkin Kwotto
- (Chapter 24) On Mentioning the Search for Enemies After the Victory…
- (Chapter 25) On Mentioning the Battle of Mani
- (Chapter 26) On the Conclusion of the News Regarding our Residing in Gudu
- (Chapter 27) On Mentioning the Reports of the Return of the Shehu
- (Chapter 28) On Mentioning the Second Battle of Dan Ghidda
- (Chapter 29) On Mentioning the Battle of Buuri
Assalamu Alaikum ya Sheikh. May Almighty Allah prolong your days for the completion of this great work and may it be beneficial to the entire Muslim Ummah.
salam alykm Sheikh is there any way I can get the links to the original texts in Arabic
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahma…I only have manuscript of the Arabic. However, the standard has been published out of Morocco
Assalamu Alaikum.
Alhamdu lilLaah I can see the Infaq al-Maysur now on the collection site of the scholars! Ma Shaw Allah!
Wassalaamu Alaikum was RahmatulLah
hello, thanks for the great work! can you add chapter 6 please?
As-Salamu alaikum dear Abu Alfa Umar. May Allah reward you for your extraordinary work. Please sir, I have a request to make. I would like to have the Arabic text of Infaq al-maythour. I talked about that book to a brother who doesn’t speak English and then I realized that there is no Arabic version of it here. Also, there are some important books of Uthman Dan Fodio that we don’t see here, namely “Bayanu Wujubul Hijrati alal’ibaad WA bayanu nasbul imami WA iqamatul jihadi”, “tamyeezul muslimeena minal kaffireena” and others. I am a Muslim from Niger, the birthplace of the Shehu.
I have posted all the works that I have translated. If the text you wish for is not posted it is because I did not translate it. The Arabic text of the Infaq al-Maysuur can be bought in any books store in northern Nigeria
Jazakumul Lah khairan for educating us and nourishing our hearts with such knowledge. Keep it up.
Meanwhile, I will like to have a detailed narration on the Battle of “Aluasa”, where many Fulani jihadis attained matrydom
Assalaamu alaykum! I really appreciate your effort and courage. You have assisted lots of students with theis effort of yours. May Allaah SWT reward you in folds. However, انفاق الميسور as you have translated above is not complete. I implore that you assist with the remainder.
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahma. Yes you are correct, I do intend on completing the translation. I am presently working on about 24 works which include the completion of the Infaq al-Maysuur as well as the tarikh as-Sudan. I cannot give an exact date when they will be completed, but you have my promise that they will be completed.
Jazakumullahu khayran! I will be most glad if you can help me with translation of the chapter that talks on ما وقع بأرض بارنو. And the chapter that follows. I have examination on it by Saturday.
May Allaah reward you in abundant.
May Allah Subhanahu Wata’ala Assist you with health, energy and resources to completed the rewarding task, aamiin!
Assalamu Alaikum
Is the arabic text of this book available as PDF file?
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahma. No, the texts I have are manuscripts. You might want to google the following: “Infaq’l-Maysuur” + “word” and see what you come up with.
In chapter 1 he says Egypt and Abyssinia are sacred places. What does this mean? Did the people of Bilad es Sudan view Egypt and Abyssinia as sacred because of Islam or was it because of something else?
You read the passage incorrectly, The passage sates: “This name has pervaded all the lands of the Two Sacred Places, Egypt, and Abyssinia.” Remember commas are used to include things in a list; like when you say: “I saw Ahmad, Saalim and Hind.” This means that all three people are joined together in being the object of the verb, ‘to see’. So when the passage says that the name Takruur pervaded all the lands of the Two Sacred Places, Egypt and Abyssinia; means that in all three lands: the Hijaz (the Two Sacred Places), Egypt and Abyssinia. If I wanted to give the passage the meaning that you gave it then it would be wriiten like this: This name has pervaded all the lands of the Two Sacred Places: Egypt, and Abyssinia; here a semi-colon follows the Two Sacred Places and indicates that Egypt and Abyssinia are the two sacred places being spoken of. However, this is not the case. What seperates all three names is a comma which means they are all the lands in which this name Taruur became widespread.
salaam sheikh, in chapter seven it is mentioned that the Hausa land was inhabited by the Sudanese, do they mean people coming from present day sudan?
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahma
That is an excellent question. In fact, when I was first given the text by my teacher Shaykh Muhammad al-Amin ibn Adam back in 1985, that was the first question that came to my mind when I read that section. The problem with we westerners who have been raised in a hyper racist and color conscious environment, is that whenever we see black or white in the pre-colonial African context we immediately associate it with our westernized concepts of ‘Black people’/ ‘white people’. The concepts of ‘sudanese’ (black) and ‘baydaan’ (white) in the context of pre-colonial Islamic societies was completely different. Today, both the sudanese and baydaan would technically be considered ‘black’ or ‘African’ in our western view. In the African islamic view, the ‘sudanese’ were considered to be a select groups of ethnicities such as the Yoruba, the Hausa, the Kanembo, the Fur etc.
while the ‘baydaan’ were considered to be the Arab, the Tuareg, the Soninke, the Fulbe` etc. You can see how all of these ethnic groups would today be considered ‘Black’ in western eyes. You also have to remember that the cognomen ‘Sudan’ was not technically given to a geographical location until after the Europeans conquered and colonized Africa. The French called the area that it conquered the French Soudan, while the British called the area south of Egypt that came under its sway the British Sudan. So we have to be careful when reading any pre-colonial African islamic text, not to apply colonial definitions to them. So no, the ‘sudanese’ referred to in the Infaq’l-Maysuur does not refer to the people from what became known during colonialism as the Sudan (Nilotic Sudan). The ‘sudanese’ in Sultan Bello’s views referred to the Hausa and Nupe ethicities as opposed to the ‘baydaan’ (Fulbe`, Tuareg, Soninke`, Zabermawa etc.) And Allah knows best.
Asalamualaykum, Ya Sheikh. Your explanation and analysis of the concept of the ahl asudan is quite detailed and lucid; the like of which I’ve never come across. Baarakallahu fika. Personally, I’ve since my formative years (till now) been strongly inclined to the scholarly and intellectual personas of Sheikhs Usman Dan-Fodio, Abdullahi Fodio, and Muhammad Bello bin Folio for their extraordinary scholarly contributions to the progress of their region – the Sudan.
wa alaykum as salaam wa rahma thank you……..the Bilad as-Sudan which Shehu and his colleagues influenced included from present day Mali to present day Sudan; and from the steeps of the Sahara to the forest northern Benin and Togo.