He is believed to be the founder and ancestor of the royal family known as the Walashma Dynasty, which later governed both the Ifat Sultanate and the Adal Sultanate during the Middle Ages. Yusuf bin Ahmad al-Kawneyn was born in Zeila during the Adal Kingdom period. And some scholars believe Somalis, Ethiopian Muslims and Arabs to be founders of the Ifat Sultanate. The Argobba people are regarded by some scholars with the founding of the Ifat Sultanate. The local Argobba people credited Arabs for building these towns. Five Ifat cities in eastern Shewa Asbäri, Nora, Mäsal, Rassa Guba, and Beri-Ifat now mostly in ruins dating back to the fourteenth century have been located. It was the northernmost of several Muslim states in the Horn of Africa, acting as a buffer between Christian kingdom and the Muslim states along the coastal regions. Ifat rulers controlled Zeila, and it was an important commercial and religious base for them.
The port of Zeila provided an entry point for trade and served as the most important entry point for Islam into Ethiopian lands. Īccording to Taddesse Tamrat, Ifat's borders included Fatager, Dawaro and Bale. The Al-Omari territorial account of Ifat Sultanate implies a size of 300 kilometers by 400 kilometers, which may be an exaggeration, according to Richard Pankhurst. Huntingford "provisionally" estimated its southern and eastern boundaries were along the Awash River, the western frontier a line drawn between Medra Kabd towards the Jamma river east of Debre Libanos (which it shared with Damot), and the northern boundary along the Adabay and Mofar rivers. While reporting that its center was "a place called Walalah, probably the modern Wäläle south of Šäno in the Ěnkwoy valley, about 50 miles ENE of Addis Ababa", G.W.B. Al-Omari mentioned seven cities in Ifat: Belqulzar, Kuljura, Shimi, Shewa, Adal, Jamme and Laboo. The state had a river ( Awash River), was well peopled and had an army of 20,000 soldiers and 15,000 horsemen. According to Al-Omari, Ifat was a state close to the Red Sea coast, 15 days by 20 days "normal traveling time".
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