Utendi wa Tambuka

In strophe 1124–1125, the author notes that the "king of Yung"' (that is, the then Sultan of Pate) asked him to write an epic on the heroic deeds of the first followers of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

[3] He also had a son, Abu Bakr bin Mwengo, who wrote an imitation of his father's epic somewhere in the middle of the 18th century.

Muhammad sends a letter to East Roman/Byzantine Heraclius, in which he tells him that the Byzantine belief that Jesus is the son of God is incorrect.

Heraclius declares his intent to persevere in his adherence to Christianity on the grounds that the Byzantines have inherited their belief from their ancestors.

Heraclius' minister and his associates are captured and once again given the choice to accept Islam or die; they refuse to be converted and are executed.

[7] The central figure of the poem, and the most heroic one, is Ali, a full nephew on the father's side of Muhammad.