Selon une tradition rapportée par Colucci, Gorgaarte eur sept fils : Maxamed, dont se réclament les Reer Shabeelle, Maxamuud, Sil'is, Mareexaan, Wadalaan, Daame et Maane, le benjamin.
Quand à Maxamed et Maxamuud, également appelés Kebhedle et Tedaalle, qui soupçonnaient Maane d'être un bâtard, il refusèrent de lui faire un présent.
According to a tradition reported by Colucci, Gorgaarte had seven sons: Maxamed, to whom the Reer Shabeelle claim to belong, Maxamuud, Sil'is, Mareexaan, Wadalaan, Daame and Maane, the youngest.
When the latter was born, his brother Wadalaan presented him with a dagger, Sil'is with a book of Qur'anic studies, Mareexaan with a cow and Daame, the most generous, with a camel loaded with containers full of milk.
Gorgaarte gave thanks to Allah and said: 'May the descendants of Wadalaan henceforth be in charge of ritual sacrifices, and may those of Sil'is preserve and transmit the teaching of the Koran.
[8] According to Virginia Luling, "The Sil'is imposed their dominion on the Geledi, who had to pay as tribute a measure (suus) of grain every day from each household; it was collected and loaded on a camel, others say a donkey.
[14] According to Luling, "His daughter Imbia used to go round collecting the daily tribute of grain, accompanied by her slaves" [15] from her father's Wacdaan and Geledi subjects.
Oral accounts hold that one day, "when the Sultan's daughter came round to collect the tribute, she got a beating instead of the grain", as the Geledi refused to pay.
[16] When Imbia reported this event to her father, he exclaimed "waa la i afgooye", literally "they have cut off my mouth", meaning that the regime's source of provision had been terminated.
The Italian colonial administration signed a "TREATY of Peace, Friendship and Protection" with the "Chiefs of Warsheekh (Seles Gorgate and Abgal)" on August 26, 1894.
The signatories submitted the appeal “on behalf of the Seles Gorgate inhabitants living in Warsheikh, Giohar, Harar, Jigjiga, Mogadishu and Afgoi".