Aliyu-Talle Maiduniya Sumaila

Aliyu-Talle Maiduniya Sumaila, born Aliyu ibn Abdurrahim ibn Ibrahim ibn Shi'ithu ibn Ghali, was the Khalifa of the House of Maiduniya and the successor of Waliyi Abdurrahim-Maiduniya the renowned Muslim saint and jurist in the Kano Emirate of the Sokoto Caliphate who was a Hausa-Fulani Arab scholar of Maliki fiqh and an imam who founded the Zawiyatul Malamai at Kadawa, the zawiya played an important role in the Kano campaigns of the Sokoto Jihad, on the maternal side, Aliyu descents from the Jobawa clan of the Fulani and Fulanin Chango.
Life
Aliyu-Talle Maiduniya was born into the family of Waliyi Abdurrahim-Maiduniya, his father was from the noble house of Gha and belonged to the Madinawa clan, the Banu Gha is a clergy house which was active in the magharib members of the clan identify themselves as Arabs, Fulani, Hausa, Hausa-Fulani Arabs or Hausa-Fulani depending on their cultural assimilation, they are called Madinawa Malamai in reference to Medina, the city they claim to originate from, the claim of descent from the Arab tribe and the prophet is common in scholarly lineages throughout Northern Nigeria and the Sahara.
His mother Maryam Muhammad Inuwa Chango was a Fulani from Chango Village at Warawa Local Government on the paternal side, and belonged to the
Jobawa Fulani Clan on the maternal side, her mother Binta was the daughter of the Village head of Sumaila, Sarkin Sumaila Dansumaila Akilu who was a descendant of Makaman Kano Iliyasu and Makaman Kano Isa I, who were District Heads of the Old Wudil District (comprising Wudil, Garko, Takai and Sumaila Local Governments), they were members of the Kano Emirate Council and Kingmakers of the Kano Emirate, the official residence of the Makaman Kano is the Gidan Makama at Wudilawa, Kano Municipal Local Government.
His father's family was influential in the Kano Emirate after the Kano Civil War which saw the emergence of Aliyu Babba as the Emir of Kano but the family of his mother Maryam whose maternal great-grandfather was Makaman Kano Iliyasu lost the title of Makaman Kano, District of Wudil to their relatives, they were loyal to Emir of Kano Mohammed Tukur, Makaman Kano Iliyasu lost his life at Kamri during the Kano civil war.
Principles
On the death of his father he became the Khalifa during his tenure as the Khalifa he advanced the acceptance of the Maliki School of thought in the Emirate by influencing later scholars to use the principles of the Maliki school of thought instead of the other Islamic school of thoughts, the Maliki school is one of the four major madhhabs of Islamic jurisprudence within Sunni Islam. It was founded by Malik ibn Anas in the 8th century. The Maliki school of jurisprudence relies on the Quran and hadiths as primary sources. Unlike other Islamic fiqhs, Maliki fiqh also considers the consensus of the people of Medina to be a valid source of Islamic law, the Maliki madhhab is one of the largest groups of Sunni Muslims, comparable to the Shafi`i madhhab in adherents, but smaller than the Hanafi madhhab. Sharia based on Maliki doctrine is predominantly found in North Africa (excluding northern and eastern Egypt), West Africa, Chad, Sudan, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Emirate of Dubai (UAE), and in northeastern parts of Saudi Arabia.
Historical accounts report that he became a sugarcane merchant and farmer apart from Islamic learning to maintain his family. In the Kano Emirate he was regarded by some people as a Saint (Waliyi), he was buried at Sumaila.
Malam Aliyu, held the opinion that, muslims must believe in the Five pillars of Islam, in all the Prophets of Islam from Adam to Prophet Muhammad and in angels, he also held the believed about Allah's attributes that are unique such as existence, permanence without beginning, endurance without end, absoluteness and independence, dissimilarity to created things, Oneness, Allah is all powerful, willful, knowing, living, seeing, hearing and speaking (signifying attributes), his descendants and followers are presently divided into the Izala, Qadiriya and Tijaniya with the Tijjaniya taking the majority among his descendants while a few are sectless. One of the Imams of Kadawa Mosque, Warawa Local Government Sheikh Usaini Umar (Malam Bala) is his relative.
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