My paper is on the Fulani scholar Muḥammad Kordow the source of most of the licences to teach the various Islamic sciences in Timbuktu. Scholarly. It traces his arrival in Timbuktu, his most important teachers, and his and his family’s role in knowledge production in Timbuktu to the educational and cultural wealth of Timbuktu especially in the scope of licences to to teach the various Islamic sciences. The discuss will focus on Muhammad Kordo and some off his offspring who issued educational licences in Timbuktu such as the Fulani scholar, Muḥammad Baghayogo and his son al-ḥājj Abd al-Raḥmān bin Ismāᶜīl, Saᶜīd bin Bābā Saᶜīd, the Qāḍī of Timbuktu at the time of the Masina state under Aḥmad Lobbo, and others. We will cite examples from these educational licences that deserve attention and care as they enable us to know the scholars of Timbuktu and the chain of their teahers from whom they transmitted knowledge ad education. In tis way, we shed light on luminaries who have all but been forgotten and referred to seldomly.