Saifu

Saifu

Saifu (c.577) was a king of Axum.

He is known from a chance mention in a Chinese life of Mohammed, the "T'ien-fang Chih-sheng shih-lu", written between 1721 and 1724 by Liu Chih. This work uses older materials that have been traced to a biography of the prophet written by Sa'id al-Din Mohammed bin Mas'ud bin Mohammad al-Kazarumi, who died in 1357. According to this Chinese biography, the "najashi" of Ethiopia was said to have sent an ambassador with gifts to Mohammed's family upon sighting a star that announced his birth. When Mohammed became seven years old, Saifu, described as the "najashi's" grandson, likewise sent gifts. This source also adds that Saifu was the grandfather of the "najashi" who gave shelter to the Muslim emigrants around 615-6 at Axum.

In reporting the contents of this "very tentative" source, Munro-Hay speculates how this genealogical relationship around Saifu might fit the known series of rulers in the later 6th century (identifying Saifu's grandfather with Kaleb, and his grandson with
Ashama ibn Abjar), and appears to admit that these details are plausible.1

Notes

# S. C. Munro-Hay, "Aksum: An African Civilization of Late Antiquity" (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 93.


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