For the Arab Hutaymi tribe, see Sulluba The Sullubawa or Sisulbe are a Fulani clan that historically featured prominently in the Jihad of Usman dan Fodio which founded the Sokoto Caliphate.
The ancestral origin of the Sullubawa is bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان) (Sullubawa in Hausa, Sullpe in Fulani language) are the descendants of Ahmed Bah باه (one of the four of Oquba Bin Nafah Alfehri الفهري عقبة بن نافع offspring and the two thousand soldiers (Faman settled in Silla) at Niger river have intermarriage with native residents they are distributed into 18 tribes some of them are: Yallabi يلبي Wlrapi ولربي Sall سال Sullupe Sullubawaسولوبي , Tarnapi تانرابي Oranbi, wallabi and 80 branches related to them.
[4] Sullupi سل , سلب سلسلب of Fulani clan emigrated from Tur Sinai طور سيناء the coted name for Futa Toro فوتا تورو ,which some Fulani tribe tale believe that were they migrated from to Hausa Land and then settled in Gerderga قيدقند between Jammalwal جماألوال and Ged (south Niger & North Nigeria) and their clan title were (Bah) به باه .
Fulani Sullupi were existed in Macina ماسينا territory with their cattle cows long before the arrival of shake شيخ Ahmed Lobo.
[5] They are the main branches of El-Faman ancestors of the Red Fulani of Western Sudan that white army who came from North Africa and settled in Silla since 739 A.D.[6] They are said to have originated from Futa Toro, in what is now Senegal, and are cousins with the Torodbe (Toronkawa) from Sissilo, the husband of Cippowo, a sister of Uthman Toroddo ancestor of Usman dan Fodio.