SHAYKH ABŪBAKAR MIJINYAWA (KANO)
Compiled by: Prof. John O. Hunwick
Source: Arabic Literature of Africa, Vol. II, pages 269-271 (Kano: Emirs and Tijaniyya Writers)
Born: 1313/1895
Died: 11th Rabī'u-l Awwal, 1366/4th March 1946
A noted Tijānī leader of Barebari origin who lived in the Bakin Ruwa ward of Kano. When the Maghribi Tijānī teacher Shaykh Muhammad al-'Alamī came to Kano in 1923, Mijinyawa became his acolyte (khadīm) and secretary.
His name as a Sūfī was widely spread by the Muqadamma Khadīja al-Shaykha al-Qāri'a who visited Kano and considered him a Qutb. While on pilgrimage, he studied in Cairo and copied the Alfiyyat al-Tasawwuf of Mustafā al-Bakrī al-Khalwatī (d. 1162/1749), brought it back to Kano and taught it to his principal student Muhammad Gidado, Wazir of Kano 1909-37.
His other major pupil was Abū-Bakar 'Atīq. He had his own college (ma'had), control of which passed after his death to his son-in-law Sani Kafanga.
HIS WRITINGS:
1. Al-Anwār al-barīqa fī dhikr mā li'l-faqīr ilā 'llahi Abī Bakr ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah min asānīd al-tarīqa
See Fayd, 6; K. al-Istidhkār, 488; cf. Paden (1973), 89, Anwār al-baraka.
2. Al-Durar fī mad'h al-khatm al-Tijānī al-Akbar
Opens: Dhī nujūmun Bal shumūsun * Bal riyād al-'ālamīna.
3. Al-Fuyūdāt al-Ahmadiyya fi Shar'h al-qasīda al-Muhammadiyya.
Commentary on poem by Muhammad 'Alī Harāzim ibn al-Muhāb ibn al-Shaykha al-Qāri'a Khadīja, written in Medina in 1359/1940-1, and sent to Abū-Bakar 'Atīq. The poem opens: Qutūf jinān al-hubbi li'l-sabbi dāniyah * Wa-fī qalbihi nārun min al-hubbi hāmiyah. See Fayd, 6.
4. Kashf al-ghumma fī ighāthat ahl al-fayda
Hausa poem in praise of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse. Short extract translated in Paden (1972), 137.
5. Al-Madād fi dhikr al-awliyyā' al-mahsūrin bi'l-'adad
See K. al-Istidhkār
6. Mashrab al-Ifdāl fī Nazm fadl al-maqāl fī mā yarfa' al-idhn fī'l-hāl fī tarīqat khatm al-awliyyā'
Completed in Jumādā-l 'ūlā 1354/August 1935.
MS: NU/Falke, 2998.
Publ. Zaria: Gaskiya Corporation, n.d (with pseudo-Muhammad Bello, Tahqīq al-murībīn) (copy in NU/Hunwick, 305)
7. Al-Mawāhib al-Rabbaniyya fī ajwibat al-as'ilat al-Tijāniyya.
See Fayd, 6.
8. Miftāh al-jady fī mu'jizat misbāh al-hady
See Fayd, 6. An urjuza of 731 verses.
9. Minnat al-Mannān was hibat al-Wahhāb dhī-l ihsān
Written in 1338/1920.
MSS: Ibadan (UL), 327; Zaria, MAH, 3/24.
10. Mufīdat al-tullāb fī gharā'ib al-i'rab
Verses on grammar. Opens: Al-Hamdu li'llahi 'lladhī qad a'arab * Ghawāmid al-'ilm li ahl al-ijtibā. Completed on 11th Rabī'-l Awwal 1340/12th November 1921.
MS: NU/Falke, 591
11. Nafahāt al-Qādir 'alā'l Murīd al-Tijānī fī-l radd 'alā mawlid al-sayf al-bātir al-Malāwī al-Tijānī
See Fayd, 6; K. al-Istidhkār, 488.
12. Al-Nafahāt al-Rahmāniyya bi-dhikr shurūt awrād al-tarīqa al-Tijāniyya
Publ. Cairo: M. al-Sunniyya, n.d. by the Tijānī Muqaddam 'Abdul-Karīm al-'Attār; Cairo: Dār Tibā'at al-Sāda al-Ashraf al-Tijānīyya, 1357/1938, reprint Kano: Northern Maktabat Press, n.d. (copy in NU/Hunwick, 57).
13. Nayl al-amānī fī-l tawassūl bi-shaykhinā al-Tijānī wa bi-as'habihi dhawī-l quran wa-l tadānī.
347 verses of intercession through the companions of al-Tijānī mentioned in the Kashf al-Hijāb of Shaykh Ahmad Sukayrij (d. 1363/1944, see GAL S II, 882, Kahhāla, xiii, 365). See K. al-istidhkār, 488.
14. Qasīda Dāliyya: Wa-lā tunkir 'alā-l majdhūbi bi-shayhin * Fa-qawlatuhu wa fī'latuhu sadādu
Poem on Sufism, see Thaqāfa, 363 where 11 verses are given.
15. Qasīda Mīmiyya: Idhā rumta-l husūla 'alā kitābī * Yurīka tarājim al-nujub al-kirāmī
In praise of Abū-Bakar 'Atiq's al-Fayd al-hāmi'.
Publ. text in Fayd, 85-6.
16. Qasīda Tā'iyyat al-safīn fī mad'h sāhib al-qutbāniyya al-'ulyā'
60 verses in praise of al-Tijānī. See K. al-Istidhkār, 488.
17. Rawd al-amānī fī dhikr as'hab Shaykhinā al-Tijānī
443 verses on the person's mentioned in Kashf al-Hijāb. See K. al-Istidhkār, 488.
18. Sullam al-dirāya was miftāh bāb al-walāya
430 verses on Sufism written in 1353/1935.
MS: NU/Paden, 363.
Publ. Kano, n.d.
19. Talbiyat al-sayq fi mad'h Sāhib al-qutbāniyya al-'ulyā'
Eulogy in 60 verses. See Fayd, 6.
Primary Sources (cited in Arabic Literature of Africa):
• Fayd:
Abū-Bakar 'Atīq, Al-Fayd al-Hāmi' fī Tarājim Ahl al-Sirr al-Jāmi'. Cairo: Maktabat al-Munīriyya, 1376/1956.
• Thaqāfa:
'Alī Abū-Bakr, Al-Thaqāfa al-'Arabiyya fī Nayjīriyā min 1750 ilā 1960 'ām al-istiqlāl. N.p., 1972.
• K. Istidhkār (Kitab al-Istidhkār):
Ibrāhīm Sālih al-Husaynī, Kitāb al-Istidhkār li-mā li-'ulamā' Kānem-Barnū min al-Akhbār wa'l-āthār. MS NU/Hunwick, 209.
• Paden:
Paden, John N. (1973): Religion and Political Culture in Kano. Berkely: University of California Press.
• MSS (Manuscripts) Jos, Ibadan.
• NU/Paden:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, John Naber Paden Collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Database catalogue in situ. See also E. Saad in History in Africa, vii, 1980, 369-72.
• Sokoto (SHB):
Sokoto State History Bureau, Sokoto. Accessions list in situ.
• NU/Hunwick:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, John O. Hunwick Collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Database catalogue in situ
• NU/Falke:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 'Umar Falke Collection of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies. Database catalogue in situ
• GAL S:
Carl Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, Supplementbände, I - III. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1937-42.
• Kahhāla:
'Umar Ridā Kahhāla, Mu'jam al-mu'allifīn, tarājim musanni fi-l kutub al-'Arabiyya, 15vols. Damascus, 1957-61.
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