Al-Qaddal, his son was named Muhammad, and he was nicknamed Al-Qaddal because a righteous man said he saw him "hanging" in the city. A glimpse of his life. He was the esteemed, traveling scholar, the sheikh of sheikhs, the expert in Fard (inheritance law), possessing influence and deep knowledge. He was born in the White Nile, and his mother was the daughter of Al-Masami, the son of Abu Wunisa. He studied Khalil and Al-Risalah with Ayya Al-Gharadi. His father died before he was qualified to teach, so much so that the scholars who attended the condolences spoke with the students, reading with them, such as the jurist Siraj al-Din and the jurist Muhammad, son of Subaih, a student of Al-Ajhuri. Then, when Muhammad began reading from the chapter on the call to prayer, he offered an explanation to the students that astonished minds and captivated hearts, like the stirring of a flame. He said, "The call to prayer is a sunnah." The truth of this was evident in him, and people traveled to him, enduring hardship, marveling at his piety, asceticism, and devotion to God Almighty. The number of his students reached a thousand, and some say two thousand. It is said that the Takarir and the sons of the town were optimistic. The Takarir appeared in seventeen hundred, and it is said that he, may God be pleased with him, came to visit Sheikh Idris with one hundred from Shabail Al-Sharh, excluding the people of the text. And the students' sheep always grazed in the courtyard. It is narrated that the people facing them were from Barada, and when they stood up from the gathering, they threw Barada at them. When it reached him that the jurist Al-Zayn was a young boy, he said, "My students know more than the students of Ibn Al-Fardhi." He said, "I am their neighbor, and they come from their neighbors." Sheikh Badr said, "I am a neighbor of my sheikh, Ibn Nazra, and they are not among them." The neighbor of my sheikh, Al-Shawka, does not prick them, for their eyes are cast down to the ground. Among those who learned from him were the esteemed Sheikh Badr, son of Umm Baraka, the jurist Muhammad, son of Abu Wunisa, Al-Masami, son of Abu Wunisa, Sheikh Barakat, son of Hamad, son of Sheikh Idris, the jurist Mudawi, son of Madani, and a large group whose time was long. A man came seeking knowledge, and he was restless. He asked him, "Where are you from?" He said to him, "My lord, I am from Al-Jana." He said to him, "Show me the form in which God created you." He said to him, "My lord, you cannot speak it." He saw hearing from his fingers, and the sheikh was stunned by it. He recovered and bid him farewell. His piety reached such a level that he had seven stones on the edge of his garment to count the words of the world, which he would use to count his words for the day. Whenever he spoke a word, he would place one of the stones in his mouth. He had thirty-one daughters. He would prepare dinner and lunch until they finished. From his childhood, he spoke of the unseen. He was a body that read, and he said, "His body is without food." He revealed, "This is the work of God, who perfected all things." The Futuh was their first reign. They imposed on the Arabs the provision of soldiers, with each tribe responsible for a known number of people to feed them. On the first day of his caliphate, the people of Al-Tawarat came.