The Farah Garad or the Garad Farah (, , Full Name: ’Farah Shirshore Habarwa Abdullah Muse Said Saleh Abdi Mohamed Abdirahman bin Isma'il al-Jabarti ) is a Somali clan which is part of the Dhulbahante clan-family, a sub-division of the larger Harti/Darod clan. The Farah Garad are divided into two sub-clans — Yassin Garad and Abdalla Garad. Abdalla has four clan eponyms, Ahmed Garad, Mohamed Garad Baharsame, Guled Garad Barkad and Ali Garad.They are largely significant in Sool and Togdheer regions of Somalia.
Garad Jama Garad Ali is concurrently the Garad of Farah Garad and the supreme Garad of Dhulbahante, however the largest constituency of clan-head is held by Garad Abdirizak Garaad Soofe, who is the grand garad of the Cali Gheri and Ahmed Garad
Overview
The largest of the Farah Garad sub-clans, are Ararsame (mainly Reer Hagar but also Wa'ays Adan and maybe other dia-paying groups) and the Bah Ali Gheri confederation including Farah Adan, Arale Mahad and Odola. Whereas Ararsame is named after an ancient twin duo.Reer Khayr is named after the Dervish period wadaad fraternity which included several Dhulbahante subclans. The Odala and Egal Naleye, sometimes collectively named after their uterine lineage Bahgeri, are intermittently categorized under either Ararsame or Bah Cali Gheri Khayr'.
Distribution
The primarily homeland of the clan straddles the Nugaal Valley and the Ciid segments of the Haud plateaus where they inhabit the Sool and Togdheer region of Somalia []. In particular, they settle in the districts of Las Anod and Buuhoodle. In Ethiopia, the clan has a significant presence in the Dollo Zone, specifically in the woredas of Boh, Danot and Werder.
Garadate seat
Garadate
Groups
Dharbash, was a Dervish administrative division which was one third Baharsame, a Farah Garad clan.
People
Cabbaas Xuseen, first prime minister of the Dervish (1895 - 1900); of the Baharsame clan Xaashi Suni Fooyaan, peace-time prime minister of the Dervish (1905-1906); of the Baharsame clan Soofe-cali Buraale, member of the Dervish haroun, i.e. the government; was of the Baharsame clan Cabbane Sugulle, commander of Burcadde-Godwein, a Dervish administrative division
Chief caaqil groups
Barkad
People
There were many notable Barkad people in the Dervish haroun, i.e. its government. These include: Jaamac Ismaaciil Dhoon, was a member of the Dervish haroun; of the Barkad clan Xareed Duubi Deero, was a member of the Dervish haroun; of the Barkad clan Samatar Bullalleh, mentioned in the Geoffrey Archer's 1916 important members of Dervish haroun list
Ali Gheri
The Ali-Gheri garad is whom Bah Ali Gheri caaqils (chieftains) of Farah Garad give deference to, by extension making them a confedaration. The poem by Ali Dhuh confirms that the Reer Khayre subclan is a Dhulbahante confederation that consists of Ali Geri, Mahad Adan and Farah Adan, with Dhuh referring to it as a grouping in his poem Allahu Akbar. The Bah Ali Gheri onelings have the largest deegaan (traditional clan territory) of the Farah Garad clans, stretching some 200 kilometers, from Dhilaalo in the north to Dannood in the south. According to both colonial sources as well as native historians such as Jama Omar Issa, the Ali Gheri onelings were the clan whom began and started the early camp of Maxkamadaha Dervishta in 1895.
The Ali Gheri clan are particularly known for being the first tribe to adopt the Dervish (Dervish) identity, and according to professor Ingiriis, the bulk of the Dervish ranks being of the Ali Geri clan, suggested Dervish ideology moved towards "clan solidarity".
Groups
In the following Dervish administrative divisions, at least half comprised Bah Ali Gheri muqaddims (arbitrators), scouts, clerics, tenders and fighters:
Ragxun, was a Dervish administrative division which was half Farah Garad, as Bah Cali Geri is a Farah Garad subclan. Miinanle, was a Dervish administrative division which was majority Farah Garad, as Cali-geri and Odala & Egal-Naleye are Farah Garad sub-clans. Golaweyne, was a Dervish administrative division which was half Farah Garad, as Cali-geri are Farah Garad sub-clans.