THE 19TH CENTURY JIHAD AND ESTABLISHMENT OF HADEJIA EMIRATE

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The new ideas generated as a result of
their policies had brought together
people of diverse (descent) linguistic
and occupational groups under one
umbrella. Although ever since their
migration into Hausa land, some fulani
Jihadists in due course became
confidants and advisers to some Hausa
rulers, there was a strong and
persistent tendency among the
Jihadists of avoiding close association
with HABE SARAKUNA, either because of
the fear or being contaminated with
Illigally acquired wealth or because
most of the Habe palaces remained a
stronghold of various traditional cults
such as BORI Cult. This made the
devoted Ulamas keep their distance
from the rulers (sarakuna). It was the
relationship between these two classes
the Ulamas and the Habe rulers that
eventually led to the outbreak of the
Jihad in Hausa land at the beginning of
the 19th Century.
The condition of Hausa society at the
eve of Jihad was anything but fair,
especially the socio-economic system.
Virtually all the rulers were norminal
Muslims and therefore hardly enforced
the Sharia system. At the same time
enforced excessive taxation. Yet in the
midst of the suffering and hardship,
the rulers continued to be corrupt,
unjust and indifferent to the plight of
the oppressed.
There seem to be some confusion as
regards the exact time when the fulani
Jihadists first came and established
their wet-season camps in the plentiful
grazing land of the Auyo/Hadejia
riverrine savannah land, the confusion
is due to the multiple causes of
Nomadic Fulani movements in the
Nigerian Savannah in general and the
Hadejia area in particular. H.M. Brice
Smith, has placed the coming of the
Fulani into the Hadejia area at the
middle or late 1700 A.D. But according
to A. Abdu Maigari, the Fulani came to
Hadejia area from Machina in Borno
during the 15th Century.
An early Fulani settler in Hadejia who
became very influential in one Hardo
Abdure dan Jamdoyji, wealthy Fulani
who traced his Origin to Machina in
Borno. Hardo Abdure established his
dry season camp in Hadejia at Jarmari
during the early 18th Century.
Jarmari is located few kilometres from
Hadejia town. As the case will all
Nomadic Fulani camps the one
established by Hardo Abdure at Jarmari
was not meant to be permanent abode.
Rather it was ment to serve the
purpose of their seasonal movements.
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