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To the city, and he stayed that day, and he found it to be the day he passed away. He passed away in one of the two noble sanctuaries.

Ibrahim bin Nasir, a scholar of Sennar, its leader, and its teacher. He studied under Sheikh Al-Qaddal, son of Al-Qurashi. And he studied under the jurist Muhammad, son of Wanisa.

Ibrahim Al-Sa'udi, the preacher of Sennar and its teacher, according to the Shafi'i school. He had a waqf (endowment) for the students of knowledge.

Abu Sinina, who is Muhammad bin Nasr Al-Tarjami Al-Ja'ali, was born in Al-Buyda, near Shandi. His father, Nasr, studied the Quran and its rulings under Sheikh Muhammad bin Isa. He pointed to him to marry Abu Sinina. This was because Sheikh Muhammad saw her when she was young and said to him, "Marry this girl, she will bear you a righteous son." He said to him, "She will bear you." And he repeated it to him. He said, "The fourth one will bear me." This was because her family traveled and went to Al-Buyda in the land of Al-Abwab. He married her, and she bore him Abu Sinina. Then he settled in the city of Arji and taught there. The people, and his circle reached a thousand students. Innumerable people read under him, including the famous jurist Al-Maghribi. And he was buried in the city of Arji.

Al-Nur, son of Sheikh Musa Abu Qissa, was of great status and importance. His mother was a slave girl, umm walad. Sheikh Musa had a son, and at the end of his life, there was a dispute between him and his cousin Sheikh Muhammad bin Marzuq. And he said to him from his father, Qutayjir, to the takah (a niche in the wall) after that. Abu Sheikh Musa came to his nephew Muhammad Al-Zayn. And he said to him, "I have guided you, led you, and married my daughter to you. This is my reward for leaving my country. If he is there, then send Sheikh Muhammad, and he will return him." And Sheikh Abdullah, a righteous man, came to him. He said to me, "After me, give her to Al-Nur, my son, after he grows up." The first thing he wore, God gave him acceptance with kings and sultans, and the kings of conquest and the Arabs. He died and was buried in Umm Jadhla. His son Jahal Al-Aj, his support in Hamiyyah and acceptance.

Abu 'Aqila, son of Sheikh Hamad, sat after his father to teach knowledge and follow the path of the righteous, according to the methodology of his father and grandfather, Sheikh Dafa' Allah. Then he took the path of the righteous from Sheikh Isma'il bin Makki Al-Daqalashi. He was corpulent and handsome, possessing awe and dignity. If a person saw his physique, he would say, "Death has decayed his grave." It prevents people from visiting him. When Sheikh heard this, he said, "The legacies become apparent after death." When he passed away, may God have mercy on him, from his grave emerged a fragrance sweeter than ambergris and camphor. He has children: Hamad Al-Amsib and Sheikh Qasim Allah, and all of them.

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