Sheikh Hussein was a 13th-century Somali Muslim proselytizer who lived in Ethiopia and was from small a village named Geel near the historic town of Dakkar today know as Jinacsani, one of the power jurisdictions and cultural centers of the Adal Sultanate.

[1][2] Hussein was born in Geela, and was Somali From the Jaarso ali madaxwayne Dir Clan.

[6] A number of these feats have been recorded in a hagiography published in Cairo in the 1920s, entitled Rabi` al-Qulub.

The city is a popular destination for approximately 50,000 Muslim pilgrims from various parts of Ethiopia, who congregate there twice a year during the Islamic months of Hajj and Rabi' al-Awwal.

Once they arrive at the shrine, the pilgrims take their turn entering the saint's tomb by crawling through a small doorway.