The claim

Mansa Musa's hajj showed the world West Africa's wealth.

The evidence

  1. The chain of transmitters — passage/muwatta-1-052

    1. person/malik-ibn-anas
    2. person/nafi-al-madani

    A Muwatta hadith with isnad.

  2. chronicle — work/masalik-al-absar

    The Masalik al-Absar account of Mansa Musa's hajj and his gold, faithfully cond'en'sed from al-Umari.

  3. object — place/timbuktu

    Timbuktu — the gold-and-books c'en'tre of his kingdom.

What does the evidence prove?