Born in 1840 in Ndankh Naar, in the former pre-colonial kingdom of Cadior, located 5 km from Ngaye-Mékhé (Thiès region), Cheikh Abouh Mouhammed Kounta quickly attracted attention for his ascetic life, the main characteristic of great scholars. According to testimonies, his diet was close to that of nomads, as he lived on milk and cakes. Incidentally, he consumed camel or mutton. After this spartan life in his childhood kingdom, Cheikh Abouh Mouhammed Kounta was sent to the village of Sira in Mauritania in 1847.

It was Ahmadou Dawga, a very great Quranic master, who was responsible for instilling in him knowledge and mastery of the Arabic language. However, after a few days, he was returned to Ndankh to his great Sheikhal Bécaye, eldest son of Sheikh Al Bounama because the master did not have much to teach him, indicates a document. And for good reason, underlines the source, Sheikh Abouh Mouhammed was full of Lijaba (knowledge). As a result, his brother Sheikhal Bécaye carried out his father's recommendations which were not to tire the child and to bring him every Friday to his grave so that he could soak up his knowledge. In doing so, Sheikh Abouh Mouhammed indulged in one of his main passions relating to zikrs (invocation of the Almighty and his Messenger), then at the age of 16, he began great religious journeys, after a perfect mastery of the Qadiriyya.

The religious leader will thus travel to several localities in the country, in particular to establish Koranic schools. Among other ardent centers, Ndiassane Keur Bouh kounta was declared a land title in 1902 and in the meantime became an important center of Sufism.

Every year, a Gamou is organized there, a week after the birth of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). Thousands of people from Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania and Senegal gather in Ndiassane.

Sheikh Abouh Mouhammed Kounta maintained excellent friendly, fraternal and religious relations with the scholars of his generation such as Sheikh Ahmadou Bamba, Seydi El Hadji Malick Sy, Sheikhna Cheikh Saadibou and Seydina Limamoulaye. Guide of the Khadriya, he gave on request his daughter Sokhna Mariama Kounta as wife to Serigne Babacar Sy first Caliph of the Sy family of Tivaouane and Sokhna Astou Kounta to Serigne Modou Moustapha Mbacké, first Caliph of Serigne Touba. Apostle of inter-brotherhood dialogue, Sheikh Bouh Mouhammed Kounta died in 1914, on the 15th day of the Muslim lunar month of Chaban. Five of his sons succeeded him to the Caliphate. The late Khalife El Hadj Mame Bouh Kounta, eldest son of the 3rd Khalife Serigne Mamadou Kounta, will be the first grandson to hold this position.

Sheikh Bouh Kounta enjoyed a great religious influence that extended, first of all, to his direct disciples, whose number cannot be estimated. Among them were women and children who naturally followed the marabout. This influence extended, although very attenuated, to all the Islamized people of lower Senegal who, without sometimes being of his mystical obedience, agreed in recognizing that "Cheikhou Ndiassane" was a good man and a Muslim saint chosen by God as pastor of souls.

The influence of Sheikh Bouh Kounta was widespread throughout Senegambia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Ivory Coast, etc., to name only these countries, and extended to the most diverse races. The Wolofs, for example, constituted only a part of it. The Socé peoples of Gambia and Casamance, the Sarakholé of Upper Senegal and many Islamized Bambara from Sudan (Mali) constituted the bulk of his talibés. He had, moreover, welcomed into his village at Ndiassane, in the shadow of his Zawya, some Moors, Mossi, Hausa etc.

The holy man was not only content to give spiritual teachings. He also defined and organized a framework conducive to the development of his talibés. Like his ancestors, Bouh Kounta was a scholar of Islam, a great man of GOD, a great "Waliyou" overflowing with knowledge. Like his fathers and grandfathers, he made the Muslim religion known and brought back to Islam a considerable number of followers. In accordance, moreover, with the philosophy of the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) who imposed on all Muslims, on the entire community, the duty to propagate the truth and convert the infidels.

Muslims refer to this proselytism by the word "Dawa," which literally means call, incitement, invitation to the Islamic faith. Sheikh Bouh Kounta, a highly cultured "Waliyou," was open to all. Thus, without leaving Ndiassane, he revealed himself across very long distances to Bambara and Mossi animists, etc.