Case file · Apparition / miracle
Usman dan Fodio receives the Sword of Truth
At about the age of 40, in 1794, the Fulani scholar Usman dan Fodio wrote that he had a vision in which the saint Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani girded him with the 'Sword of Truth' to unsheathe against the enemies of God.
1794 CE · 13.15, 5.40 · status: account
The account
A decade later he led the jihad that founded the Sokoto Caliphate, one of the largest states of 19th-century Africa. The plotted point near Degel, his home, is approximate.