Ali Jedo (died 1846 or 1849), was the first Amir al-jaish al-Islam (supreme commander of the army or Sarkin Yaki) of the Sokoto Caliphate.
[3] An example of his hot-headedness can be attributed to an oral tradition of when he killed a man from Kebbi who dared enter his home and demand the return of a borrowed horse.
He gave the west to Abdullahi, the east to his son Muhammad Bello and the north to Ali Jedo.
[7] Towards the end of his life, as he grew older, Ali used his sons as his deputies and left them in charge of the army.
Abu Hasan bin Ali Jedo, another son of his, took over this position as acting Amir al-jaish.
[9] After a Muslim defeat in the Battle of Tsuntua in December 1804, Uthman dan Fodio and his followers stayed in the valley to the west of Alkalawa.
This was because the Gobirawa, fifty years prior, had sacked the capital of Zamfara and had been regularly raiding the country ever since.
The leaders of this expedition were Abdullahi dan Fodio, the first Grand Vizier and brother to the Shaikh, and Ali Jedo.