It is believed that he is the only sheikh in East Africa to receive that honour. In January 1964, an army mutiny occurred in Tanganyika Rifles. Nyerere took this opportunity to detain [13] EAMWS leaders in the provinces and other prominent sheikhs, some very close to Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir, on the pretext that they had instigated the mutiny. Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir’s s network built for almost three decades and which he had depended for the new struggle for Muslim emancipation was targeted and was in retreat and in other places in disarray.
Mambo matatu tunaweza kusema ndio yaliomponza Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir na kubidi kurejeshwa Unguja na kutotakiwa kuonekana katika ardhi hapo ishakuwa inaitwa Tanzania Bara. Moja kati ya hayo mambo matatu ni ziara yake ya Kongo, Kinshasa (Congo, DRC kwasasa), mchango wake katika hotuba ya Maalim Nyerere aliyoitoa Umoja wa Mataifa na mchangao wake mkubwa katika kuisimamisha Jumuia ya Waislamu wa Afrika ya Mashariki. (Rejea: Mazungumzo na Sheikh Ahmed.)