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The Crusaders' situation was dire. He besieged and stormed Fargana, reported it, and headed towards this priestess. He equipped his soldiers, and many of his companions followed him until the end of the tribe, and then he wrote about the defeat to 'Ayyub, the king, and set out towards Damascus, hoping to catch up with him. Sabilt, among the Muslim captives, and Jawad 'Abd al-Malik, by his order, were told to stay where they were, not to leave. The book was written in Barfa, and this is how the well-known victory was achieved. It is three stages from Misrata, and he stayed there until he reached the Holy Land. Before 'Abd al-Malik returned to Abu Baghiyah, the priestess had begun to cut down trees and change the water to divert them. Abu Baghiyah arrived and did not hesitate to descend and the two armies met until God granted victory to the Great 'Aqil. He was victorious over them and pursued them until he defeated them at the well attributed to Bayla, and appointed his son over the Berbers. This Sheikh Abu Uthman was a devout ascetic, devoted to God Almighty, and his blessings appeared until he was known as the one whose prayers were answered. A famous incident occurred in the mosque outside the city, when the priestess was sitting in the mosque, and a great earthquake shook the mosque. Some of the inhabitants went out to investigate and found a person cutting stones from under the mosque's cave. He was angry and did not reveal his actions or tell them the whereabouts of Sheikh Abu Uthman. Then God tested the two men, and the mosque shook. The Sheikh returned to the mosque and said, "If your father had ordered you to demolish the mosque, would you have demolished it?" He replied, "Yes, if my father ordered it." The Sheikh returned to the mosque and said, "O God, grant him a long life." The Sheikh prayed in the mosque, and a part of that gold fell into the man's lap by accident. Sheikh Abu al-Hafs al-Ghazi, may God have mercy on him, said: "We went out with the scholar Abu al-Hasan ibn al-Mansura to Tripoli to visit the scholar Abu Muhammad 'Abd Allah ibn Abi Zayd, may God have mercy on him, and he was with them. One day, Abu al-Hasan said: 'Sheikh Abu Uthman wanted to go on Hajj with a group of his brothers, people of religion and virtue, and he wrote to them. We went out with the wild animals and cut through the road, and we were three days without finding anything. Sheikh Abu Uthman reached a hill, wiped his face with his hand, took some of its soil, and put it in a vessel he had with him. Then he mixed it with some water he had, and offered it to us, saying, "Eat, may God bless you." We said, "We have not eaten." He said, "You have not eaten for three days." He said, "Who answers the distressed when he calls upon Him?" Then the traveler returned, carrying a gift from Hajj. He asked the people of Hasa if they had seen any righteous people on your way to Tripoli, a man and a woman.

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