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We followed the path of the people, and the students numbered twenty from Shail, the scholar, with ten questions he wanted answered. When they arrived at Sheikh Idris, they greeted him and he ordered them to stay in the guesthouse and honored them greatly. When night fell, he sent for them and lit a fire, saying, "The scholar's ten questions, will he answer them?" He answered them, the jurisprudential questions, answering them according to the terminology of the jurists, the monotheists, and the Sufis, likewise. And each one answered him regarding what he asked. From this, they became certain that he draws from the Preserved Tablet, and they submitted and pledged allegiance to him and followed the Sufi path. He favored them, dealt with them, and gave Sheikh Saghirun (1) the Ajbahuri garment that he had sent him, saying, "A gift from a scholar to a scholar." His poet, Abu Jarus, said: Since the day we encountered his youth (2) Humble, for him and below him Everyone seeks his solace in his company People of gossip and hearsay, they could not weigh him (3) The second chapter on his generosity, asceticism, piety, clemency, and brevity. Sheikh Saghirun said: From the lineage of Sheikh Abdul Qadir Idris, it is said that his fire-starting is sixty sparks, and the ball began, driven by the shepherds. The people of the Tariqa, along with the servants, in the celebrations, with the Manatli in their midst, and its making is precise and clear, and the water's froth on it is like broth, sometimes with oil and sometimes with water. And the wine that comes to him from the visitors, the ascetics take it. Sheikh Salih, son of Al-Qahad, brother of the jurist Saghirun Al-Shaqlawi, a student of Sheikh Idris, said that Sheikh Muhammad, son of Fayed, a student of the Sheikh, comes every year to visit the Sheikh from the Sea of Al-Malj. The tribes of the East, Arab Aked (4) and Arab Al-Takeh (5), and others, come in large numbers like the tribes of Jinba. Some of them are led to Wad Al-Nimidaoui, then they come to the settlement where the settlement of Ibn Abaq, son of Abaq, is. At that time, Sheikh Badawi, a young man, was present with them, raised by Ibn Hamla, and his mother had pleaded with God through the Sheikh and vowed a cow and ten silver rings. So she said to Ibn Fayed, "The cow was not obtained, and I gave birth to Sheikh Badawi. The المعز (Al-Mu'azz) are rings." She said to Ibn Fayed, "My son, do not be cut off from you because of the multitude of people, for others cannot fit in the settlement, and their custom is to camp outside it." Those who seek blessings come to him from Jabal Umm Ali, and from Arja, and the East and West await the arrival of Muhammad, son of Fayed, to Sheikh Idris. They enter upon him in groups with their gifts during the day, and Ibn Fayed says, "Ya Ya on the road." (1) Qaf on the gift of Sheikh Idris to Sheikh Saghirun. (2) Reached the end of youth and removed hair from the head, as the Arabs say, "Amr grew up." (3) Meaning, they outweighed them. (4) Aked on the Red Sea, south of Tokar, a point. East and south of Tokar, a point. (5) Bin Amer and Al-Takeh, Kassala, are explicitly for Sayyid Al-Hasan Al-Mirghani and his sons in the settlement of Al-Mirghiya, under the famous Kassala mountain, which touches the clouds in height.

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