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Slatin Pasha, in his well-known book, indicated that they were not different from the Mabinah. When slave trading and raiding were prevalent, and this tribe had individuals among the slave traders, including Al-Said Hussein, it reached a point where Gordon appointed him to one of the districts located between Darfur and Bahr al-Ghazal. Then he rebelled against the government, and the Sultan of Darfur was forced to bring him to Khartoum. Upon Gordon's return, he promoted him to the rank of high Mirimiran, along with Lieutenant Pasha, and appointed him commander of the Bashi-Bazouk troops, and Hassan Ibrahim became the second deputy. From that day on, what we have narrated is what happened. As for Hassan Ibrahim, he was the son of Yusuf Pasha Al-Kalali and was a slave trader. His biography is not different from what we have narrated about his father's biography. Gordon promoted him to the rank of Mirimiran, like Al-Said Hussein, and appointed him deputy commander of the Bashi-Bazouk troops. The Second Battle of Halfaya. When Gordon decided to launch another campaign to Al-Fashaga to expel the Dervishes from it, he led it to Al-Said Hussein Al-Lami'abi and Hassan Ibrahim Al-Shalali. The number of its troops was three thousand Bashi-Bazouks and two thousand regular soldiers, and it had two Krupp cannons and two field guns. The campaign marched on the morning of the fourth day. The beginning of the siege of Khartoum. When the two armies met, the soldiers did not fire a single shot until the commander Saif Al-Din, Al-Said Hussein, and his deputy Hassan Ibrahim defected to the enemy.