SHAYKH MANNA ABBA WULD TULBA (SHAYKHĀNĪ)
{The Second Illustrious and Favorite Muqaddam of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse in
Mauritania}
By: Professor Rüdiger
Seesemann (Germany)
In: The Shurafa and
the Blacksmith: The Role of the Idaw 'Ali of Mauritania in the Career of the
Senegalese Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse (1900-75).
Published in: The
Transmission of Learning in Islamic Africa (2004) - [Chapter 3, pgs 72-98],
Edited by Dr. Scott S. Resse
AND
The Divine Flood: Ibrāhīm Niasse and the Roots
of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival (2011)
» INTRODUCTION ON
(MANNA ABBA IBN MUHAMMAD AL-TULBA IBN AHMADDU IBN MUHAMMAD AL-HAFIZ)
Manna Abba, a great-grandson of Muhammad
al-Hafiz ibn al-Muktar al-Shinqiti.
...Ibn Anahwi tried to convince Manna Abba to
join him in accepting the claim of Ibrahim Niasse, and he uttered the following
verse;
a'aylu law yarfa'a
l-a'aa * ya ansuu haadhaa shajarun wa ma'u
Meaning;
"I come to the
watering place when I hear the sound of the herdsman's call [to come drink] *
oh my people, this is the [shaddy] tree, and here is the water!"
At this point - probably some time in 1934 or
early 1935 - Manna Abba decided to go to Kaolack in order to meet Niasse
personally.
» MANNA ABBA'S FIRST MEETING WITH SHAYKH IBRAHIM NIASSE
According to accounts by the son of Ibrahim Niasse, Manna Abba was
impressed when he saw the Shaykh for the first time.
When he (Niasse) heard the name of the visitor, he said:
"You are my two shaykhs (anta Shaykhaanii)", thus alluding to the
fact that Manna Abba was named after Ahmaddu ibn Muhammad al-Hafiz, known as
Manna, and Ahmad ibn Muhamdi 'Baddi', known as Abba.
Later in the same meeting, Manna Abba asked Ibrahim
Niasse to grant him a tajdid, i.e. a renewal of his affiliation to the
Tijaniyya. Niasse replied: "I have nothing you did not already get from
your forefathers [i.e., the great Shaykhs of the Hafiziyya branch]. There is
nothing I could give you in addition." Thereupon Shaykhani said, "I
know you have received something special from God, something that has not been
given to my forefathers. And this is what I am looking for".
Finally, Niasse agreed to give him the special recitation
formulas (i.e. awraad al-tarbiya {the formulas of mystical education or of
spiritual training}) and told him to repeat them a certain number of times over
the next few days. And indeed, after a few days Shaykhani was granted fat'h,
i.e. God endowed him with the mystical experience of the Divine Essence.
According to ths account, it was the desire for a deeper
mystical knowledge that made Shaykhani become a disciple of Ibrahim Niasse, the
only person who had the key to this knowledge.
According to The Divine Flood: Ibrāhīm Niasse and the Roots of a Twentieth-Century Sufi Revival (2011);
Oral tradition in Medina Baye has it that Manna Abba
decided to go to Kaolack after Muhammaddu wuld Anahwi, who had sent letters to
Trarza in order to spread the news about the emergence of the fayda, had roused
his curiosity.
On his arrival in Kaolack, he introduced himself to
Ibrahim Niasse as Manna Abba, who reportedly responded: “So you are my two
shaykhs (anta shaykhani),” thus alluding to the fact that he held licenses that
connected him with Ahmaddu (known as Manna) b. Muhammad al-Hafiz and Ahmad
(known as Abba) b. Muhamdi Baddi, the two towering figures of the second
Hafiziyya generation.
The distinguished Mauritanian visitor, who subsequently
came to be known as Shaykhani, then decided to become Niasse’s disciple.
The following depiction of their encounter in the oral
accounts highlights the motivation behind his (and other Mauritanians’)
submission to Niasse’s spiritual authority:
When Shaykhani came to Shaykh Ibrahim for the first time,
he wanted to renew his affiliation to the Tariqa. So Shaykh Ibrahim told him:
“I have nothing you did not already get from your forefathers,” referring to
Muhammad al-Hafiz. “There is nothing I could give you in addition.” Shaykhani
replied: “I know you have received something special from God, something that
has not been given to my forefathers. And this is what I am looking for.”
Niasse then agreed to give him the litanies of spiritual
training, and within a short period of time, Shaykhani had his experience of
illumination and remained a faithful supporter of Niasse ever since; he even
became Niasse’s favorite Mauritanian disciple.
According to Ahmaddu b. al-Shaykhan (Wamadat munira fi
hayat al-Shaykhan b. al-shaykh Ahmaddu b. al-shaykh Muhammad al-Hafiz al-'Alawi
al-Tijani, 108), the visit took place in Ramadan 1350/January 1932.
» CONCLUSION
Supplied with this newly acquired additional knowledge,
Shaykhani returned to Mauritania and began to initiate members of the Idaw 'Ali
tribe into the practice of the special recitations.
However, many of the Mauritanian Tijanis strongly
denounced his activities, because it seemed unacceptable to them that a
great-grandson of Muhammad al-Hafiz and a possible future Khalifah of the
Hafizi branch of the Tijaniyya had proclaimed his submission to Ibrahim Niasse.
...Nevertheless, there is evidence that he succeeded in
winning over some of the Idaw 'Ali to his cause. In 1935, Ibrahim Niasse wrote
a letter to Shaykhani giving him advice on how to proceed with the spiritual
training (tarbiya) of the students.
Another crucial step in the development of the Niasse
branch of the Tijaniyya among the Idaw 'Ali came when al-Hadi ibn Sayyid, a
great-grandson of Mawlud Fal, joined the 'people of the fayda (jama'at
al-fayda)', as Niasse and his followers used to refer to their movement.
» PRAISE POEM OF A
GNOSTIC
By: Shaykhani 'Manna
Abba' wuld Tulba, RA
via: Imam Muhammad Abdullahi Al-Tijani
Al-Ibrahimi
حمدا
لمن شغلنا بذكره *** وغيرنا شغلهم بنكره
Praise belongs to The One Who occupied us
with His remembrance *** And occupied other than us with His denial/ignorance
شغلنا
عنهم بذكر ربنا *** شغلهم عن ذكر ربهم بنا
He substituted (thinking about) them in our
hearts with Our Lord's remembrance *** He busied them from the remembrance of
their Lord with (them talking about) us
والله
قادر على ان يفعلا ** بالعكس ذا لكنه ما فعلا
And Allah is All Powerful to do *** The
opposite (of this) but He didn't do it
Further reading (on Faydah in Mauritania):
SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AL-MISHRI WULD AL-HAJJ {Prominent
Mauritanian Disciple of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse}
THE LAWFUL ENCHANTMENT: FROM THE GOLDMINES OF
MANNA ABBA (BY SHAYKHĀNĪ)
SHAYKH MUHAMMAD WULD ANAHWI AL-'ALAWI (1908-2003)
[The First Mauritanian Follower of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse]
SHAYKH AL-HAJJ ABDULLAHI WULD AL-HAJJ: THE DIVINE
TREASURE-CHEST SEEKER {A Great Visionary (Mukashaf) & The Discoverer of
Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse as the future bringer of the Faydah (Divine Flood)}
SHAYKH MUHAMMAD AL-HADI WULD SAYYID MAWLUD FAAL
{One of the earliest Mauritanian Followers of Shaykh Ibrahim Niasse & his
Special Envoy to Northern-Nigeria, Niger and Ghana}
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