Kusugu

That was how people continue to starve until one day when a person who was believed to be a Baghdadi prince, Bayajidda (Abu Yazid) came to Daura because he could not get the throne after the death of his father.

Because he could not speak Hausa before, people started calling him Bayajidda, meaning, he didn’t understand before.

[1] He then came to the town of Daura (located in modern-day Katsina State), where he entered a house and asked an old woman for water.

Bayajidda set out for the well and killed the serpent with the sword and beheaded it with the knife the blacksmiths had made for him, after which he drank the water, put the head in a bag, and returned to the old woman's house.

Having presented the snake's head, proving to her that he was the one who had slain Sarki, he turned down the offer of half the town instead requesting her hand in marriage; she married him out of gratitude for slaying the serpent.