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He stood at the lineage of that time, a man of bright stature, who said, "A poor man like this man, his country does not know him, and he is not known. He was buried with his father, and his grave is visible and visited, and all the poor are from his offspring, except for a few."

Bann al-Niqa, son of Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq, the other Ajjal, miracles and extraordinary events appeared to him. Among them, during Ramadan, he did not nurse except for milk. And when he reached nine years of age, his mother wanted to rub his feet with oil at night, and she found mud on one foot and the other dry, and he was lying on a mat. He told her, "My uncle al-Tamari's boat sank with him on the island of Umm Saad, and he saved him with two legs." He asked for help, and his father named him Bann al-Niqa after his great-grandfather. They said that his lineage was completed. He was a guiding sheikh, and his truth appeared in his offspring. His father, Sheikh Abd al-Razzaq, said about Bann al-Niqa, "Bann al-Niqa, the youngest of the Ajjal, lights the fire." He said, "The light of Muhammad, peace be upon him, is the last of the generations," meaning the offspring of Bann al-Niqa. Sheikh Berti Hawar, Sheikh Sulaiman, said to Sheikh Saleh, "Your father, Jamil, was burdened by God, and God sufficed him from his worries." Al-Faqih Hadd, son of al-Jadhoub, said, "I entered the dome of Sheikh Bann al-Niqa as a visitor, and he said to me from the grave, 'Are you Hadd, the owner of the Dalail?'" I said to him, "My master, I am a carpenter." He said, "Carpentry is another profession. I was with Saleh, my son." I said, "Yes." He said, "So you love him." I said, "Yes." This dome is of the truthful ones. Sheikh Bann al-Niqa fell gravely ill, and some of his brothers visited him and said to him, "You are Ramadan, you have no male children, only daughters." He said to them, "My wife, the daughter of Saleh, will bear a child until he is as tall as a sword." And it was as he said. Sheikh Saleh said, "After my father's death, I stayed for seven years until I grew up. When I was young, I saw him sitting on a mat, and I was sitting with him, and people were taking the path. I, out of ignorance, said to him, 'Guide me.' He said to me, 'Your uncle Saleh, our father's deputy, and your uncle al-Zain will guide you.'" He said, "When I grew up, I took the path from my uncle Saleh and the litanies from my uncle al-Zain. I am all guided by my father, and my connection is with the Messenger and al-Khidr." One day, I saw myself sitting at his grave on the left, and al-Khidr, peace be upon him, on the right. He said to me, "I entrust you to you." The Living, the Everlasting entrusted me to him and said to me, "Stand in the place of Sharaf al-Din, son of Burri." He said, "And I was exhausted from reading the Dalail with the companions of al-Ma'louba." Then my uncle Saad, son of Saleh, came and said to him, "Your sister's son does not stop reading the Dalail." May God have mercy on him. He died when he was around forty years old, or a little more. His grave is visible and visited, and there is tranquility and beauty upon it. Badawi

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