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And he said to her, "This is a pillar." He led her to him and brought her. He said to him from afar, "Go." And among them is the story of a man who had a mad woman. They rode her on a donkey and came seeking him for an invitation. They found him busy with the construction of the mosque, which was made of reeds. They seated the woman in the shade of a tree and held her. A slave who was with them found the Sheikh busy building the mosque with his own hands. The pillar was crooked. The woman's husband was knowledgeable in the craft of building. He took the pillar and set it upright. The Sheikh said to him, "You have straightened the pillar. As for the woman under the tree, we have straightened her for you." The man went to his wife and found her recovered from madness. She said to the slave, "Why are you sitting next to me? Are you my husband or one of my relatives?" And among them is the story of his goat, whose milk he used to drink, being stolen by a drunkard who took it to his drinking companions. They slaughtered it and ate its meat. The goat began to cry in their bellies, and the belly of the man who stole it swelled. They took him to the Sheikh and said, "We will compensate him with four goats." He forgone the compensation. He began to nudge him with his foot, and the man was writhing and saying, "Sheikh, O Sheikh, pray for him." (in a foreign tongue). His stomach then settled, and he was forgiven the compensation for the goat. And among them is the story of the King of the Fung, when all the armies of Kuri, Sennar, and El-Ais revolted against him and surrounded him from all sides, killing everyone with him. He was left with only thirty horses. He hid in the courtyard of Kamir, the king's sister. The aforementioned went to Sheikh Khalil and said to him, "My lord, my brother has lost his kingdom, and I fear for his destruction by his slaves." He said to her, "Your brother is unjust and corrupt." She said to him, "I will bring him to you so that he may repent at your hands of injustice and corruption." He said to her, "Bring him to me." So she went to the king and brought him back in hiding, and dressed him in women's clothes. When he stood before the Sheikh, he said, "I repent of what you have warned me about." The Fung took the king's turban from you. I will replace my turban with yours. I guarantee you your father's kingdom until you die. But when you go out to fight, bring me and Haj Amara." The next morning, he went out to those armies with thirty horses and brought the two Sheikhs as he ordered. He defeated them by the blessing of the Sheikh and killed them a terrible death. He remained in his kingdom until he died. The aforementioned king is Badi al-Ahmar, son of Awansah, son of King Nasser.

Khalil bin Ali al-Sardi al-Khansi was born in Jazirat Kujuj. In the beginning of his life, he was a drunkard. He suffered from a stomach ailment and complained to Sheikh Hassan bin Hassuna. He said to him, "Goodness has entered your stomach." He fasted, then began to worship. He fasted during the day and prayed at night, spending his day and night in prayer, spreading his prayer mat in the sun until he died in that state. He has famous miracles, including that when the gatekeeper came to him to measure the expenses of the day and the expenses of the night, he would find dirhams and sumit and its like in the food.

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