(1) Al-Eidawiya is attributed to the town of Al-Eid, Hilla Walad Usheib, and God knows best. (2) Umm Maqd is a town on the left bank of the Blue Nile, opposite Masid Walad Issa. It is the town of Al-Faqih Muhammad Walad Al-Mubarak, who is buried in the cemetery of Buri. He was one of the great righteous men. He measured the distance of the prayer and the regions from Buri, seeking his town, Umm Maqd, and found it at the watering place of Al-Qalij, west of Masid Walad Issa, and God knows best. (3) Abu Ashar is a town on the left bank of the Blue Nile, south of Al-Kamain and west of Al-Hilaliya. It contains the grave of Al-Faki Al-Amin Walad Muhammad bin Al-Wali, the famous one. Abu Ashar is a railway station on the Medani line, and God knows best. (4) Al-Zabla'a is dishonesty, sorcery, divination, and following paths that do not please God Almighty by abandoning His commands and avoiding His prohibitions. The word "Al-Zabala'a" is common on the tongues of people from this valley. (And among the common ones) are the people of Abjarid, who are dissolute, commit abominations, and permit fornication with women. Likewise, (among the common ones) are Al-Klitah, who are rebellious and oppressive people, outside the obedience of the rulers in Sudan. Their way is plunder and looting, and God knows best. 60 because they were young when they met Sheikh Dafallah. Sheikh Muhammad, the father of Al-Attar, said to him: "Your guidance is through my son Hamad, son of Dafallah, son of Al-Shafi'i, who is guided by Sheikh Abdullah." Hamad Abu Qurun, son of Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hameem, was one of the great and righteous saints. It is said that the endowment of Al-Mandara was established by Sheikh Hamad, son of Sheikh Muhammad Al-Hameem. Hamad Al-Nahlan bin Muhammad Al-Budeiri, known as Ibn Al-Turabi, and his mother's name was Qaya. He studied Khalil with Al-Faqih Muhammad Walad Al-Taqarfi Muweis and excelled in it. He completed ten readings, then embraced the Sufi path, devoted himself to God, became ascetic, and followed the path of Sheikh Dafallah, who guided him. He met Sayyid Al-Khidr, peace be upon him and upon our Prophet, the best of prayers and peace. He took from him. Dafallah bin Sheikh Zain Al-Abidin told me: A man called Abu Kasiya, cousin of Sheikh Hamad, told me: "I was studying Khalil with Sheikh Hamad when Sheikh Dafallah came to visit Sheikh Idris, who was dead at the time. When he returned, he cut through the guidance from the Eidawiya (1). When the people of Al-Hala heard of his arrival, the people of Al-Bashatra met him in Umm Maqd (2) and Al-Kasanbar. They asked the Sheikh to descend among them. The Sheikh divided his brothers, Birira and Hamouda, among them, along with the فقراء (students). He told them: 'I will descend among my brothers, the فقراء.' So he descended with Al-Faqih Tana and Hamad, his brother. They settled him in a hut with a rakuba in front of it. Hamad entered to see him after Isha and left after Fajr, carrying a misbaha of hajlij. The Sheikh stood up, and we presented him to Abu Ashar (3), and Sheikh Ballal Al-Shayib, son of the student, led his donkey, with a belt around his waist and carrying his staff. He said: 'By God, I will come, O my father Dafallah, to fart,' and that was due to the great crowd around him. Abu Kasiya said: When we returned from the funeral of the Sheikh, we asked the servant of Sheikh Hamad, Ba Khita, 'Where is your master?' She said: 'My master is in the wilderness. Sheikh has closed his retreat and has not opened it, neither eating nor drinking.' We came and said to him: 'Open it and read to us.' Abu Kasiya said: He said to me and Khalil: 'We are separated until the Day of Resurrection. Take the son of Al-Tanfar, and he will enter the wilderness and your children and mountains.' His servant and his three children, Luqman, Al-Hameem, and Ruqiya, cried with him, but it was of no avail. The mouth of the khawa is sought with stones. He said: 'If you smell an odor, come and bury me.' He remained in the khilwa for thirty-two months, taking with him three purslane plants, qaraẓ, and seven dates. The khilwa had a window through which water was passed to him, and every night a portion the size of a camel's eye for his iftar. When he came out of the khawa, they found the qaraẓ, dates, and mantil (water skins) as they were, and the rakwa (water pot) was full of water. All who drank from it fell unconscious and became one of the saints of God Almighty. Then he ordered the people to repent and seek forgiveness and abandon Al-Zabla'a (4), and he guided them on the path. A similar story to this is what my master Abd...