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Hypocrites, God is Great. Thus said the poet. I satirized Zuhair, then praised him, and the sides kept testing. And from the generosity of Sheikh Ahmed, he entered his courtyard with neglected cows in the flock, and his hobble in a dark night, thinking them Jallaba. He separated the Bosib and softened them with gentleness, and found them to be cows. And the scholar Muhammad, son of the scholar Arki, informed me. My grandfather said, six emerge to the full moon, and all the flock emerge to him, rather, all of them according to the number of their heads. And the scholar Muhammad, son of the scholar Arki, informed me, Aibo, the scholar Bilal, son of the scholar Sabahi, son of Bilal, Qallahmed Muhammad, son of Bar, said: I traveled by post with the scholar Sabahi in the time of Odon. He said: We were sitting with him when a very old man named Fout Amawi came. He said to Bilal, "Give my greetings to my Sheikh's son." Muhammad bin Arki asked him, "Who is he?" He replied, "He means Hada." He said, "Yes, Hada, my stingy brother." Odon said to him, "How did this Sheikh do?" He said: I traveled for Hajj and met Sheikh Abawi, and while I was in the two holy mosques, news came of my father's death. And they said he was buried in Al-Baqi'. When I returned from Hajj, I visited Sheikh Daf'Allah with Makith, who was with my father. He said to me, "I don't want you to go to Sitar Biz. You should stay with me and keep me company. Go to your Sheikh's son, and he will give you something to marry with." So I went to my brother, and he gave me a Kaduuriian coin and eighty dirhams. He said: I went to my father's grave and buried him. I heard a voice from the grave saying to me, "Be patient." When the sun set, a woman came to me carrying a gourd. I spoke to her, and I didn't know where she came from. She said, "My gourd is empty." It was between Maghrib and Isha. A Jallaba came and fell into Hada's courtyard. Then, after she fell, a man came carrying two Qiyash hats and placed them on the grave and said, "O Aba, we traveled to such-and-such a country. We prayed for you. We informed you of our departure, and you visited us." I spoke to him. Then another man came carrying a bag full of dates. I gave it to him. Then a man from Dongola came carrying a bag full of dates. I gave it to him. The coin was emptied to him and filled. I said, "I will not tell anyone." Then I heard a voice from the grave saying to me, "Do not tell anyone, for he is greedy." He said: I gave it to him, and I said, "Give me a camel to ride on." So he did. He said: I came and told Sheikh Daf'Allah the story. He laughed until he cried. So I married her and stayed until Sheikh died, then I went to my family. Hada, son of Sheikh Daf'Allah, succeeded his father and took his place in teaching Khayl, Risalah, Aqayed, and the path of the Sufi way. Sheikh Muhammad bin Al-Tariqi guided him. And Sheikh Al-Majid bin Taha informed me: Sheikh Daf'Allah, Sheikh Muhammad bin Al-Tariqi, son of Daf'Allah, son of Al-Shafi'i.