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(1) I say it is an answer, and when the aforementioned speech was finished (2), that the Funj, who are the kings of Sennar, it is said they are descended from Banu Umayya, and it is said from Zubayr ibn al-Awwam, one of the ten honored ones who were promised Paradise, the noble companion, the Badr, and son of Safiyya, aunt of (5) the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, and the land of Nubia, most of the land of Sudan. By God, the Most High, the Great. I say (1) and by God is success. Let us begin with the mentioned history. Know that it was inhabited by them. The Funj (2) ruled the land of Nubia and conquered it at the beginning of the tenth century, year 910. And God knows. (3) Sennar, the capital of the kingdom, after the nine hundred, and the city of Sennar was founded (3). King Amara Dengis founded it, and the city of The Funj on the left bank, Arbaji (4), thirty years before it, was founded by Hijazi ibn Mu'in (5). It was not famous in those lands On the Blue Nile, a school of knowledge and the Quran was founded. It is said that a man divorces his wife and another marries her on the same day, without a waiting period. Year 910 AH. It is now A waiting period until Sheikh Mahmoud, the short man (6), al-Arki, came from Egypt and taught people the waiting period. It is a center of And he settled by the White Nile and built a palace for himself, known today as Mahmoud's Palace. In the early second half of the English-Egyptian government Of the tenth century, King Amara Abu Sikilkin appointed Sheikh Ajib al-Mangilak (7). So at the beginning of the province, Sannge, which is on His reign, Sheikh Ibrahim al-Bolad came from Egypt to the land of the Shayqiyya and studied Khalil there. The left bank also. And al-Risala, and spread the knowledge of jurisprudence in the island. Then, after a short while, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Bahari came And the Message, and spread the knowledge of jurisprudence in the island. Then Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Bahari came From Baghdad (8) and introduced the Sufi path into the land of the Funj. Then al-Tilimsani al-Maghribi came to the land of the Funj. Sheikh Muhammad ibn Adi Suwar al-Dhahab, and followed the path of the people, and taught him the science of theology and the sciences of the Blue Nile. It was founded in The Quran, with its recitation and narrations, and grammar, and the science of monotheism and recitation spread in the island because 880 years before Sennar, thirty years. He took the Quran from Abdullah al-Aghith, from Berber, and the father of the jurist Abu his year in Arbaji, ibn Mu'in, a student of Sheikh Taj. Then the reign of Sheikh Idris appeared, without a sheikh coming to him. It is said he took from the Messenger, may God bless him. Then Sheikh Hassan, son of Hassuna, appeared in the city of the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace. Then Sheikh Muhammad ibn came to the land of Berber and introduced the Shafi'i school of thought, may God be pleased with him, and it spread. His school of thought in the island. Then the sheikhs came and the city of al-Halfaya was founded (9). Then Hamad ibn al-Sayyid and Sheikh Ajib came. Zarrouq in al-Sababi. Then Sheikh Muhammad al-Masri came to the land of Berber and taught there the science of monotheism. The great man of the righteous. And grammar and al-Risala, and his knowledge spread in the island. And all these mentioned sheikhs, during the reign of took the path from Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Bahari, as it is said, Sheikh Ajib, and its duration was forty-one years. Then in the year nineteen after a thousand, he died, and a great king in Sennar. And after a short while, Sheikh Saghirun and Sheikh Abd al-Rahman ibn Hamadtu came from the land of the Shayqiyya, rivaling the Funj in Sennar. To the land of al-Abwab (10). And Sheikh Abd al-Raziq Abu Qurun came from the land of Upper Egypt to the land of (8) Baghdad with a Dal or Al-Abwab, and their arrival was during the reign of King Badi Abu Ribat. And in the villages (11) al-Mardamar between Qunays Baghdad with a Dhal, it is the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate from the time of Caliph Abu Ja'far al-Mansur. And that was their capital, al-Abwab, and Baghdad on the Tigris River, built by al-Mansur in the year 144 5. And God knows. (9) Al-Halfaya North of Khartoum Bahri, and it is part of its center, and it is on the left bank of the Nile and is called Halfayat al-Muluk, named after the kings of the Abdallab. And God knows. (10) Al-Abwab Near Sadi, the place of al-Saghir, and Nab, and al-Raziqiyya from it. (11) Villages, the seat of the kingdom of Sheikh Ajib al-Mangilak, like Sennar for the Funj, and it is north of Khartoum.