Isaaq migrations

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The Isaaq clans began migrating from their ancestral homeland in the city of Maydh, eventually settling and dispersing across various regions of the Horn of Africa. These migrations were part of the broader movements of the Somali people around the Horn, which contributed to the establishment of Somali settlements in their present-day territories. The Isaaq people traditionally claim to have descended from Sheikh Ishaaq bin Ahmed, an Islamic scholar who purportedly traveled to Somaliland in the 12th or 13th century and married two women; one from the local Dir clan. and the other from the neighboring Harari people. He is said to have sired eight sons who are the common ancestors of the clans of the Isaaq clan-family. He remained in Maydh until his death. Somali genealogical tradition and historical accounts places the origin of the Isaaq tribe in the 11th or 12th, century with the arrival of the Sheikh Ishaaq Bin Ahmed (Sheikh Ishaaq) from Arabia. Muhammad ibn Hassan Al Basri, Who was a near contemporary of Sheikh Ishaaq After his settlement in Maydh, Wrote a book compiling stories and poems about him, Which was referenced by the Hashemite scholar Imam Muhammad ‘Azza Ad Din Al Gherbani in his book “Al-‘Asjad al-manẓūm fī al-tārīkh wa al-‘ulūm. Makhtūṭat sīrat al-Sharīf Isḥāq ibn Aḥmad fī al-Yaman wa al-Ṣūmāl”, Better known as the Gherbani Manuscript in the 19th century. Sheikh Ishaaq settled in the coastal town of Maydh in modern-day northeastern Somaliland.Hence, Sheikh Ishaaq married two local women in Somaliland, which left him with eight. There are also numerous existing hagiographies in Arabic which describe Sheikh Ishaaq's travels, works and overall life in modern Somaliland, as well as his movements in Arabia before his arrival.