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He lived in the East, where guests would come to him, his wife, his ten children, and his daughter. He would slaughter and prepare for the Sheikh. He said that his body was covered in a garment, and the rest of his body was bare and clean. After completing his seclusion, he performed the Hajj to the Sacred House and wandered the land from the Hijaz, Egypt, and the Levant for about twelve years, accompanied by a group including Abu Humayda, Ahmad Tuda Al-Daqlaawi, and Bajala. He lived for four hundred years, from his youth to his maturity, seclusion, and wandering the land. Fifty years after his youth, he reached maturity, dug wells, and was named Al-Mal. The Sheikh, may God have mercy on him, said: There was a man in Egypt, a wealthy and esteemed merchant, who was ill. The doctors despaired of him and told him: There is a man whose garment has not touched his body. If you bring him, he will pray for you, and perhaps through his hands, healing will come to you. So he sent for me, and I prayed for him, and God Almighty healed him. He filled the bellies of the poor with abundant food. One of the poor brought him a piece of cloth to sell. They said to him: This does not resemble the clothes of the dervishes. Where did you get it? He told them: We have much of this kind. Our Sheikh has it from the merchant so-and-so. So give us that. They said to him: The merchant so-and-so, all the righteous dervishes prayed for him, but he was not healed. Your Sheikh is a sorcerer. So they took us and brought us before the Sanjak. The Sanjak met us and wanted to argue. He said: The Shiites are standing, and he has a famous sword in his hand. Fear seized him, and he said: The dervishes, bind them and send them away. Panic came from all sides. Hassan Hassan, and I said to them: Safety and well-being are in the stones. Then we proceeded to Mecca and found there a noble man, a Qutb, whose mother was ill. They said to him: O my master, what is the cure for your mother? He told them: Her cure is at the hands of a man who comes from the desert, whose garment has not touched his body. While we were in the Haram, one of his servants saw us and went to his master and told him: O my master, the man you described has arrived in the Haram. So they came and brought me to him, and I prayed for his mother, and she was healed. I was sitting with him on the upper roof when some dervishes approached and said: O my master, hunger has destroyed our provisions. I raised my hand to the sky and caught dinars and threw them to them. He ordered that it be a bridge. I said: It is a bridge. He said: A donkey's bridge. I said: Then he said: Dig wells in it. The Sheikh said: The noble man, when he was unable to take my prayer for worldly matters, then he said: The Sheikh said: While we were wandering in the Levant, we stayed with a man. He said: Today, these guests. He said to him: No, I swear to you, it is more beautiful than that. He said: God Almighty said: A guest is an adornment for his people. So whoever comes to us, we return to our people in Sudan.

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