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Idris Stone Qadah died, and when Hamad took over, strife and slaughter increased. The saying went that Qadah's generosity was 120, and his strife was 60, and his generosity had weight, and his strife, and his generosity. He had a large tent with three sections: a section for meat, a section for milk, and a section for *burboor* and vegetables. The slaughter was abundant, a high offering. The rest, seen from afar, was a waste. Abu Jarous, his father's poet, criticized him for disobedience but praised him for his abundant strife and slaughter. He said in his criticism: The place where the branches meet, it was broken, and the intact *wad* was left. He left Hamad the generous, and when they came, they said, "Give them the spoils." And in his praise for the abundance of strife, he said: A strong young man, how many times he greeted Hamad, his father's fire roared from the two sides. Son of the Quraysh, his guests are two hundred thousand. May your father be praised, O gatherer of two honors. This saying is similar to the words of the Bedouin when he heard a reciter reading, "And among the Bedouins are those who believe in Allah and the Last Day." He said, "Allahu Akbar, he praised us, then he insulted us." Then Allah said, "And among the Bedouins around you are hypocrites." He said, "Allahu Akbar, he insulted us like this." Our poet said: I insulted Zuhair, and I praised him. The nobles have always been insulted and praised. Among Sheikh Hamad's generosity, late at night, he entered his courtyard near a neglected area, and there were obstacles. They revealed them, and they were a cow. The scholar Muhammad bin Al-Faqih Arki asked me. He said my grandfather Hamad used to go out to Atbara year after year, and he would give everyone who went out with him a camel, a calf, and livestock according to their number. He said my grandfather Muhammad bin Bar said, "I traveled to Sennar with Al-Faqih Sabahi in the time of Awadun. While we were sitting with him, a group arrived, a very old man. He said to him, 'Greet the son of our Sheikh.' He asked him, 'Who is he?' He said, 'The son of Bilal, the son of Hamad.' He said to him, 'Hamad, my stingy brother.' He said to him, 'Awadun, how can we reveal the Sheikh's son?' He said, 'I traveled for Hajj and promised my father, the Sheikh. When I reached the two holy sanctuaries, a final message came to him and they buried him. When I returned from Hajj, I visited Sheikh Dafallah, and I cried with him.' He said to me, 'Do not be sad. You will carry Sennar. Your husband is here. Go ahead, be comforted. Go to your Sheikh's son, and he will give you something to take home.' So I went to Hamad, my brother, who ignored me. He was a swift horse and eighty creatures. Then I came to my village, and I heard a loud voice.