In the circle of the tradition · Signal Hill
Sheikh Mohamed Hassen Ghaibie Shah
Also remembered as Sheikh Mohamed Hassen Ghaibie Shah al-Qadri
A companion of Shaykh Yusuf's community who stayed at the Cape to teach, buried on the ridge of Signal Hill.
Two awliya are best known among the graves on Signal Hill, the ridge between Lion's Head and the city. One of them is Sheikh Mohamed Hassen Ghaibie Shah al-Qadri, who lies in a tomb on the ridge.
In the oral tradition, both he and Tuan Kaape-ti-low were followers of Shaykh Yusuf of Makassar. After Shaykh Yusuf died in 1699 and most of his party returned to Banten in Java, two of his followers and his daughter chose to remain at the Cape. The two followers were learned men, and they stayed to teach.
Other graves on the hill are remembered too: those of Tuan Nur Ghiri Bawa, also called Tuan Galieb, Tuan Sayed Sulaiman and Tuan Sayed Osman.
In the tradition of the circle, his is one of the two graves on top of Signal Hill.
Sources: Guide to the Kramats of the Western Cape, Cape Mazaar (Kramat) Society (1996; third impression 2010); Government Gazette 45602, 3 December 2021: SAHRA declaration of ten kramats.