Dan Masanih

Abu Abdullahi Muhammad b. Masanih al-Barnawi al-Katsina (1595 - 1667), wanda aka fi sani da Dan Masanih, masanin Islama ne na ƙarni na 17 daga Katsina . An dauke shi daya daga cikin tsarkaka uku na Katsina, tare da Dan Marina, da Dan Tukum . Zuriyarsa suna zaune a yankin Masanawa na birnin Katsina . Bayan mutuwarsa, sunansa ya zama lakabi na gado wanda ya wuce ga zuriyarsa, al'adar da ke ci gaba har zuwa yau. : 71 

 Rayuwa 
An haifi Dan Masanih a Katsina a cikin shekara ta 1595 ga dangin da suka fito daga Bornu. Sunan mahaifinsa, "Masanih," yana nufin "mai ilimi". A matsayinsa na masanin kimiyya, ya kware a fannin shari'ar Islama, ilimin harshe, da kuma harshe.

A cikin karni na 17, Dan Masanih ya zama mai tasiri sosai a Katsina bayan ya taimaka wajen hana mamayewar Kwararafa ta hanyar shawararsa da addu'o'insa. Wannan nasarar ta ba shi matsayi a matsayin mai ba da shawara mai daraja a kotun Sarkin Katsina . Bayan mutuwarsa, sunansa ya zama lakabi na gado wanda zuriyarsa ke riƙewa. Ana kuma girmama gadonsa a wasu jihohi, gami da Kano, inda sanannen dan siyasa na karni na 20 Maitama Sule,  da Sokoto suka rike taken. Yawancin zuriyarsa suna zaune a yankin Masanawa na Katsina .  : 199–200 

 Ayyuka 

 al-Nafḥat al-ʿanbarīya fī ḥall alfāẓ al-ʿIshrīnīyāt (an kammala shi a watan Yulin / Agusta 1640) - Wannan sharhi ne game da ʿIshrī maryāt na Abd al-Rahman al-Fazazi . Shi ne mafi mahimmancin aikin marubucin.
 Shifāʾ rubā fī taḥrīr fuqahāʾ Yurubā - Wannan littafi ne da aka bayyana a matsayin "a composition about the time of sunset". Amsa ce ga tambayoyin da masu shari'a Musulmi suka yi a Yoruba game da hanyoyin da za a tantance ainihin lokacin faɗuwar rana. Muhammad Bello ya nakalto aikin a cikin Infaq al-Maysur, yana mai cewa ya ƙunshi bayanan zamani game da Yorubaland.
 Juzʾ laṭīf manẓūm, wa laisa fīhī ḥarf manqūṭ fauqānīya wa-lā takhtānīya
 al-Buzūgh al-Shamsīya ʿalā Muqaddimat al-ʿAshmāwīya
 Tazyīn al-ʿaṣā ḍarb hamat man ʿaṣâ
 ʿAyn al-khalāṣ fī tilāwat sūrat al-ikhlāṣ

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Hausawa
Rukuni:'Yan Katsina