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==History==
The Layene Brotherhood was founded in 1884 by Seydina  Limamou  Laye who was an uneducated man from the Lebu ethnic group, and  a fisherman. He claimed to be the [[Mahdi]], an Islamic messianic figure, whose coming is prophesied. He claimed his son, Seydina Issa Rouhou Laye, was the second coming of [[Jesus]].<ref>Sylla, Assane. Not dated [after 1987]. ''Les Prophetes: Seydina Limamou le Mahdi et Seydina Issa Rouhou Lahi''. Dakar: Imprimerie Saint-Paul.</ref> Seydina Limamou Laye is reported to have said that when he left Mecca when he died, he took refuge in a cave in Ngor in the form of light. For more than a thousand years, he traveled the whole earth nightly to see in which people he would appear for his second mission, and “it is because of the moral discretion (''sutura'') and the decency of the clothing of the Lebu women that I was born among this people,” and that “God saw that I was born among the Lebus.”<ref>Cheikh Makhtar Lô. ''Bus râ, al-Muhibbî n wa tayqîz al-jâhilî n (Joy of Friends and Awakening of the Lost).'' Unpublished English translation of the biography of Seydina Limamou Laye.</ref> Despite this, from the earliest days of the community, membership has been open to all Muslims. He attracted a following both among and outside the Lebu ethno-linguistic group.<ref>Laborde, Cécile. 1995. ''La Confrérie Layenne et les Lébou du Sénégal: Islam et culture traditionnelle en Afrique''. Université Montisquieu: Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux.</ref><ref>Matthew Kearney. 2005. "The Societal Ideal and Religious Authority in the Layene Brotherhood." B.A. Thesis in Sociology, Haverford College.</ref>

The present Khalif of the Layene is Seydina Mouhamadou Makhtar Laye, who is a son of Seydina Mandione Laye.