This battle was described as so deadly, that random birds of prey who were dissected by their owners were found to have human remains inside: Nin la oran jirey Maxamuud Gurey ayaa gorgorkii dooxay, waxaana calooshiisii laga soo saaray 500 oo xiniinyo rag ah.
British sources agree that the Agaarweyne battle was deadly, and state that the darawiish stole all the equipment belonging to the colonialists and left every single British officer dead; the dead included the British Lieutenant general Arthur William Valentine Plunkett:[3] ... topee and whistle had, doubtless, been taken from Gumburu’s stricken field, as also had been other articles of the Dervish equipment, such as the black cloth caps of the Yaos, the khaki puggarees of the Sikhs, and the Mannlicher cartridges belonging to the Mannlicher sporting rifle possessed by poor Johnston-Stewart, the only weapon of its kind with the force ... Plunkett, with all officers, had been cut up at Gumburu, and the Obbia force was still concentrated at Galadi.
In the poem "Doqon baan ogayn", the Sayid Mohamed, head of state of the Darawiish, compares the efforts of Aden Galaydhs offspring, the contemporaneous patriarch of the family, and by extension his offspring, with a way of life or a prophet, with the following line "Dabkuu shidayay Aw-Aaden, waa diinta Nebigiiyee", meaning the light shone by the aden galaydh family is that of a prophet or of a way of life itself.
One of the few survivors of this family was Saliid Baynax Aaden, Suleiman's nephew, who went on to live in Marqaanweyne from where he recounted incidents and narrations of the anti-colonial battles to the beginning of the century.
[5] The brothers Xayd and Beynax are both referred to by Sayid Mohamed Abdullah Hassan, the dervish head of state as "gaanaha" and "garaadada", the former meaning a field marshal and the latter a chieftain.
[6] His brother Baynax Aden Galaydh is mentioned in the Indha-caadlayaal oration by the Sayid via the line "Cantallaaga lna-Aadanaa, cawro sii dhigay e" wherein he only addresses qusuusis (advisory council members), after an incident wherein they abandoned their flock in the face of an enemy resulting in besmirching commentary from the Sayid; this incident proves that Baynax Aden Galaydh was also a qusuusi.
The 127th line of this poem (Guxushaaga Beynaxa ilmadu, waataan gabaxleyne), is especially moving as it recounts how Beynax is near permanently sad at how three of his sons died in this battle.