Ibrahim III (IbrÃÂhëm bin Idrës), called Ibrahim Gumsami, was mai (ruler) of the KanemâÂÂBornu Empire in the early 17th century, ruling approximately 1618âÂÂ1625.
Ibrahim was a son of mai Idris IV Alooma. His mother was named Gumsu, or bore the title gumsu (senior wife of the mai), and she was "of the house of the Magaram". Ibrahim became mai in the early 17th century, succeeding his half-brother Muhammad VII Bukalmarami. The German explorer Heinrich Barth, who visited Bornu in the 1850s, noted that the KanemâÂÂBornu Empire's royal chronicles recorded that Ibrahim sent an embassy to Tripoli, then part of Ottoman Tripolitania. Ibrahim's reign was a prosperous time for the empire, according to a girgam (regnal list) translated by Richmond Palmer:
Ibrahim ruled for seven years. He died at Ngazargamu or at a site called Galagâti, and was succeeded as mai by another half-brother, Umar III al-Maqdisi.