Also closely located near Kofar Kuyambana was Anguwan Malam Sule. The founder of the lineage that inhabited the area is said to be one Malam Sule. It was following his settlement in this quarter that the ward was named after him. Malam Sule was said to be a great Islamic scholar.
Tradition claims that he came to Zaria and settled at the ward during the reign of Sarkin Zazzau Yero (1888-1897 A.D). Apart from the lineage of Malam Sule, another prominent group that settled in this ward were the Yoruba. The Yoruba started coming to Zaria during the second reign of Sarkin Zazzau Abdullahi (1857-1871 and 1874-1879A.D) and that the first Yoruba to start settling in the area was a man called Balogun. He was said to have first settled there alone and later brought his family from the south to permanently settle with him in Zaria. It is his lineage that is now residing mainly in the ward. This lineage was engaged in trading in mainly textiles goods and kola nut. Of the entire ethnic groups that came to subsequently settle in Birnin Zaria at the various phases of its evolution, it was only the Yoruba people that were not completely integrated and assimilated into the Hausa community of Zazzagawa. This is demonstrated by the fact that they are still identifiable by their style of dressing, language and customs.