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He annexed the land of the Qaim. The Zanj had broken the covenant and blocked the road, so in 1873 he sought help against them from the Sultan of Darfur, but he did not help him. He fought them, defeated them, and captured their faqih, Abdullah al-Ta'aishi. The sheikhs prevented him from killing him. This Abdullah was the one who became the Caliph of the Mahdi. The Egyptian army pursued him, and he fled from Omdurman. The Egyptian army caught up with him in a place called Jadid on November 24, 1889. He and his companions were annihilated. As for him and his companions, when they realized their doom, they prostrated to their Lord and sat waiting for death. It was not long before it came to them swiftly. After the conquest of Kordofan, Zubayr sent to Ismail Pasha Ayyub, the governor of Sudan, asking him to send someone to take over the lands he had conquered. The reply he received was that His Highness the Khedive had bestowed upon him the second rank and appointed him to govern those lands in exchange for 15,000 pounds to be paid annually. Then war broke out between him and the Sultan of Darfur, and victory was his. He sent the sons of the Sultans of Darfur to Egypt. Then a dispute arose between the governor of Sudan and Zubayr, so Zubayr fled to Egypt in 1875 and accompanied the Egyptian army in the war with Russia. During that time, his son Sulayman revolted against the Hajj and Umma. Gordon sent G. B. to fight him, and Sulayman was killed. In 1883, he was assigned to fight Osman Digna in Tokar. After gathering thousands of Sudanese in Egypt, he changed his mind because he refused to be under the command of Baker Pasha. In 1884, Gordon asked him to take over the Sudanese lands, as mentioned before, but he refused. The Khedive insulted him by calling him an informant. In 1885, a man named Tariq went to meet the Mahdi and stayed there for 30 months, then he was released. The government appointed him a monthly salary of 289 pounds, which he received until his death. He was demanding one million pounds from them. After the recapture of Sudan, many of his properties were returned to him.