To talk about Baye’s students, is indeed, one of the most difficult puzzle in this world. Sheikh is a colossus via whom the hidden Men gulp from. The posse of Rijal around him are numerous—only God knows how many! 
Sheikh Futi was the pathfinder of Sufi mysticism in West Africa. He was a great warrior and a renowned scholar who called people to the path of Allah—UMAR BIN SA’ID FUTI , he was born 1213 AH (1796).