Whilst rereading "Temple's 'Notes on the History of Kano' [1909]: A Lost Chronicle on Political Office" from Sudanic Africa by Lovejoy, Mahadi and Mukhtar, we saw an interesting miracle attributed to MaiKalgo (or Mai Kargo) on page 49. Although the document appears to have been a draft and contains a number of errors or contradicts the more famous Kano Chronicle at times, we thought it was intriguing to see Temple's version of the miracle of the famous wali in question. According to Temple, MaiKalgo's blood wrote out the Shahada when he was killed by the Kwararafa forces which attacked Kano during the reign of Muhama Zaki. If one follows Palmer's chronology, his reign should be tentatively dated 1582-1618. Dokaji, on the other hand, associates Mai Kargo (MaiKalgo) with a later attack on Kano during the reign of Dada (Dadi, r. 1670-1703). Furthermore, the miracle reported by Dokaji does not mention anything about the blood of the slain wali from what we can tell.
However, the tradition of Temple about the slain holy man's blood writing out the Muhammadan creed is very similar to at least one tradition about al-Jirmi of Borno. Said to have executed by the order of the mai Umar of Borno, the blood of this leader of the earliest known Kalumbardo was said to have written out the Islamic creed. Undoubtedly, this miracle was part of a broader set of miraculous stories on the sanctity of figures unjustly killed. In the case of Mai Kargo, it was his death at the hands of the pagan Kwararafa. For Muhammad Bello, writing in the 19th century and seeking to justify the jihad against Borno, it was incorporated into the tale to heighten the charge against the Sayfawa on Islamic grounds.