She was extremely influential in shaping both her husbands' military policies in their campaigns against the Ethiopian Empire.
[3][4] Bati del Wambara was born the daughter of Mahfuz, Emir of Harar and later governor of Zeila.
She married Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi and accompanied him in his jihad[5] to make Ethiopia a Muslim province.
[1] When her husband was killed and their eldest son captured by the forces of Emperor Gelawdewos (the son of Emperor Lebna Dengle), del Wambara successfully negotiated with the Dowager Empress Seble Wongel to exchange the captured brother of Gelawdewos for the boy.
[7] She is supposed to have pushed him into reviving the jihad in order to avenge the death of her deceased husband.