Salaan Carrabey

Salaan Mahamud Hirsi (, ) (1850 – 1943), better known as Salaan Carrabey, was a famous poet from the Adan Madoba sub-division of the Habr Je'lo Isaaq clan.

Early life Salaan was born in 1850 in the town of Beer, Isaaq Sultanate. He completed his Qur'anic education in Beer after which he married a woman of the Ahmed Garad/Dhulbahante clan and worked as a merchant trading in Aden, India and East Africa. He was a polyglot, learning many languages throughout his career as a merchant, including Arabic, English, Swahili, Hindustani, and Amharic.

Mayn Salaan had left Burao for several months after and upon his return the locals asked him to recite something. His response was this poem Mine

War Toolow Colka Jooja Heavy infighting broke out between the Ahmed Farah and Rer Dahir subclans, both belonging to the wider Nuux subclan of the Habr Je'lo. The conflict had been going on for a long time, and no one had been able to put an end to it. Finally, the two subclans resolved to settle the dispute by battle, as is customary among Somali people. | For you two clans I have a few words I have not forgotten those five at (the desolate place of) Ceer The first born of my clan And Cali Fiin You killed Rabjaan in revelry And in transgression of custom And up to today a stick has not been broken for him And we remember well-known Jaamac Who was the first in oratory for us We know about what happened in the past No one is more close to each other than us And yet there is anger between us If you devour each other I won’t respect you It’s as much as I’ll join forces with one (side) And join in the attack on the other It is as if my fingernails are Cutting up my stomach And I shall die of anger And grief and rage My upper arms (my clan ) will become weak So say together ‘I seek protection from God’ Oh clansmen stop the war! After Salaan concluded the geeraar Oh Clansmen, Stop the War, one of the intermediary elders, Baashe Shabeelle, told him that what he had just recited was not a gabay, and told him to recite something among the men or leave the battlefield.

Death Salaan died in 1943 in Burao, Somaliland).