Abu Bakr "the Slim" (Qaṭin) also known simply as Qaṭin sometimes spelt Qecchin or Katchthcen was a general in the
Adal Sultanate under
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.[1] Abubaker's sobriquet "Qaṭin" is derived from the
Harari term for "thin".[2][3] He was the
Garad of
Hubat.[4]
Political and militant career
He often accompanied the
Malassay during the
Ethiopian-Adal War.[5] Qecchin was a victim to the early Abyssinian invasion of
Adal in which his mother was briefly captured at the
Battle of Hubat.[6] Qecchin led the conquest of
Wofla in modern
Tigray region and Kanfat in southern
Begemder, after which he was appointed governor of these respective regions by Adal.[7]