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47 Letter H Hassan bin Hassuna bin Al-Haj Musa, who came from the Maghreb, from Al-Jazeera Al-Khadra, from the islands of Andalusia. He married in Al-Musalliya (1) and Hassuna was born to him. He said, "I have placed my offspring in my origin." Hassuna married his maternal cousin Fatima bint Wahshiya, sister of Al-Haj Laqani, and their mother was Sardiya Khamisiya. Hassuna had four children with Fatima: Sheikh Hassan, Al-Ajmi, Suwar, and Al-Haja Nafisa. The four children of Fatima were barren. Sheikh's children in Al-Jazeera Kabuj (2) Rayhana. His affairs are divided into two chapters. Chapter One: On the cause of his beginning and what God honored him with of miracles. Chapter Two: On his reviving the dead and healing the afflicted and diseased. Chapter One: Sheikh Saleh bin Bantiqa said, Al-Kufi, Sheikh Hassan's companion, told me: Sheikh Hassan said to me, "O Kufi, shall I tell you about the cause of my beginning? In the beginning of my affair, I went out seeking a Sheikh on the road. I entered Al-Jazeera Aslanj (3), and they honored me and hosted me. I said, 'These people honored me, they are my Sheikhs.' Then I traveled to Al-Jazeera, and they honored me there. I said, 'They are my Sheikhs, they honored me.' Then I came to Al-Mutarrafiya (4) and found the الفقيه Babiker, an old Sheikh, with people gathered around him for a miracle. He said to one, 'Is there meat?' He said, 'Yes.' He said, 'Is there sauce?' He said, 'Yes.' He said to me, 'O poor one, take the leftover salt with water and eat.' I said, 'This person honored me, he is my Sheikh.' Then he said to me, 'O poor one, fill this water skin in the sea.' When I came to the sea, it filled by itself and came to me without me filling it. I hurried to the Sheikh and found him to be a young man. He performed ablution and prayed, then he prolonged until his head reached the roof of the Khalwa. Then he returned to his uncle's house. I said to myself, 'This is my Sheikh.' He said to me, 'I am not your Sheikh. Go and enter a Khalwa in Ba'awadha, for your Sheikh will meet you there, and you will have a great destiny.' He remained after that for ten years. Sheikh Hassan, when one of the children of Al-Faqih Abu Bakr entered upon him, he would embrace him and say, 'And his father was righteous.' He said, 'Then I presented myself to Ba'awadha and secluded myself there for remembrance and worship, with the servant of the Messenger of God (peace be upon him) and with Ali, and it is said Abu Bakr. The remembrance met me, then he said, 'O Kufi, while I was lying in the Khalwa, I saw a large star in the sky, and my soul clung to it and left my body and flew, and it pierced the seven heavens. I heard the scratching of pens. If it were, O Kufi, after Muhammad..." (1) Al-Musalliya means a tribe. Al-Musalliya, to whom he belongs, and they are originally his Sheikhs, meaning Bakriyoun, attributed to our master Abu Bakr Al-Siddiq, may God be pleased with him, and God knows best. (2) An island north of Khartoum, near Shandi on the Blue Nile, one of the islands of Sheikh Hassan bin Hassuna, may God be pleased with him, and God knows best. (Note) We hear from many people that Sheikh Hassan, Sheikh Idris, Sheikh Abdul Razzaq Abu Qurun, Sheikh Muhammad Absi Suwar Al-Dhahab, Sheikh Ajib Al-Manjak, and others, their mothers were daughters of Al-Sharif Abu Danah. There is nothing in the layers that indicates this, nor about Al-Sharif himself. So, from where do people have this saying? I think they intended to exalt them and were not satisfied for them except that their mothers were from the Prophetic household. In my opinion, sainthood does not require this condition. Rather, God gives His secret to His weakest servants without regard to their lineage or their mothers, and God knows best. (3) Al-Jazeera Aslanj, the island of Al-Faki Al-Amin bin Umm Hayyin in the Nile, north of Khartoum, opposite the town of Sheikh Ibrahim Al-Bashi Al-Tamimi on the eastern bank, and his dome is there. As for Al-Faki Al-Amin, he is buried on the western bank in Al-Qali', may God be pleased with them both. (4) Al-Mutarrafiya, in Hammat Hajar Al-Asal, south of Khartoum.

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