BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEIK NDA SALATY
Shaykh Ahmad Rufa’I, Ibn Abubakar, Ibn Ahmad Rufa’I, a mystic, a native of Ilorin, a Nupe tribe, a Maliki doctrine, an Ash-arite tenet, and a Qadiri sufi order. It had been seen thatShaykh Ahmad Rufa’i Nda Salaty would be a light to the world as a result of the good deeds of his fore-fathers. At the tail end of the reign of the Emir of Ilorin Alhaji Abdul Salam 2 known as Mohmoh, Nda was born in the year 1895. His mother was Sa’adah who waited for a long period without pregnancy until she attained the age of fifty years. She then went to her father Shaykh Khalilullah Gbodofu to seek from Allah to bless her with a fruitful child, who will uplift the pillars of Islam to the mankind which Allah granted the supplication by blessing her with a male child, young Nda. He was Ahmad Rufa’i son of Abubakar An-nufawy. A lineage is said to linked to the Arab tribes, who emigrated from Timbuktu to Bida in Niger and down to Ilorin. His father (Abubakr) named him Ahmad Rufa’i in seeking the b...
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