Ba Fadal ( Somali: Baa Fadal,

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: با فضل) are a Benadiri clan predominantly based in historic Shingani district of

Mogadishu Mogadishu (, also ; so, Muqdisho or ; ar, مقديشو ; it, Mogadiscio ), locally known as Xamar or Hamar, is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. The city has served as an important port connecting traders across the Indian Oc ...

. However, there are established settlements on the road to

Merca Merca ( so, Marka, Maay: ''Marky'', ar, مركة) is a historic port city in the southern Lower Shebelle province of Somalia. It is located approximately to the southwest of the nation's capital Mogadishu. Merca is the traditional home territory ...

in the village of 'Number 50' ( Somali: Lambar Konton)

Clan Tree

The Ba Fadal according Anita Adam's Phd are made of 4 sub clans: * Abud * Aw Ali * Aw Mir * Reer Aw Ikar

Notable People

* Shaykh Ahmed Muhiyyidin, was the teacher of

Shaykh Sufi Abd Al-Rahman bin Abdullah al Shashi ( ar, عبد الرحمن بن عبد الله الشاشي) (b. 1829 - 1904), popularly known as Sheikh Sufi, was a 19th-century Somali scholar, poet, reformist and astrologist. Life Sheikh Sufi was born in M ...

from who he received his ijaza on the qaddiriyah tariqa from. * Mohamed Abdirahman Abdirahim Abud Bafadal (Haji Wandow).He founded and established "Number 50" (lambar konton) which is a village between Mogadishu and Merca. * Ali Mohamed (Ali Wandow) was the son of Haji Wandow and he was the first person to establish (Number 50) (Lambar konton).

References

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