Hahi
{{Short description|Town in Togdheer region, Somaliland}}
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Hahi ({{langx|so|Xaaxi}}, {{langx|ar|حاحي}}), is a town in Oodweyne District located in western Togdheer, Somaliland.
History
Hahi started as a permanent well for pastoralists and became a settlement. In the 19th century, members of the Sufi order Dandarawiyah would establish a tariqa and jama'a (congregation) at the town. The order was founded by Sayid Mohamed al Dandarawi who was a student of Ibrahim al Rashid and their teachings spread from Arabia to Sudan before eventually reaching Somaliland via the Somali Sheikh Sayid Aadan Ahmed.{{cite book|title=THE ISLAMIC MOVEMENT IN SOMALIA|author= Abdurahman M. Abdullahi (Baadiyow)|year=2015|publisher=Adonis & Abbey|isbn=9781912234035|pages=65–74}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.ahmadiah-idrisiah.com/founders2-e.php|title=Shaykh Sayyid Ibrahim Al-Rashid, www.ahmadiah-idrisiah.com, at-Tariqah al-Ahmadiah al-Idrisiah ar-Rasyidiah ad-Dandarawiah (Singapore)|website=www.ahmadiah-idrisiah.com|accessdate=25 March 2023}} It would spread to Sheikh although it remained much smaller than the established Qadiriyya or Salihiyya orders. A young Nur Ahmed would study in the tariqa of Hahi before a succession crisis would prompt him to leave and eventually see him take the title of [[Garhajis#Habr Yunis|Habr Yunis and Reer cali part of arab sub-clan
]] Sultan.British Somaliland by Drake Brockman, pages 79–82, 1912.
Demographics
In June 2006 Hahi had an estimated population of 2,971.{{Cite web |date=June 2006 |title=Nutrition assessment - Hawd of Togdheer |url=https://fsnau.org/downloads/Hawd%20of%20Togdheer%20Nutrition%20Assessment%20June%202006.pdf |pages=35–37}} Hahi is inhabited by subclans of the Habar Yoonis Ugaadh Cumar, and reer Cali, and guyob Eidagale subdivisions of the Garhajis a sub-clan of the wider Isaaq clan family.General Survey of the Somaliland Protectorate 1944-1950, 164
References
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{{Portal|Somaliland}}
{{Districts of Somaliland }}