From the Cataract to their new capital, Sennar. The prevailing situation dictated while their allies, the Abdallab, remained in their city, Qara, which was located forty miles north of the present-day city of Khartoum. Qara reached the peak of its glory and power during the reign of Sheikh Ajib al-Mangilak, whose era was characterized by conquests. Sheikh Ajib was killed in the Battle of Karkoj in 1804 AD and his body was carried to the city of Qara and buried there.

In 1790 AD, Sheikh Ajib III, Sheikh of Qara, left the capital of his ancestors and moved south to take the city of Halfaya al-Muluk as his capital. Halfaya remained the capital of the Abdallab until the arrival of the Turks in 1821 AD. Since the time of this Sheikh Ajib II, the distance between the Abdallab and the Funj increased, and there were only nominal relations between them. Although Sheikh Nasser al-Amin, Sheikh of the Abdallab, surrendered to the Egyptian-Turkish forces in 1821 AD without resistance, he died shortly thereafter. The capital of the Funj was in Sennar, where the Sultanate of the Funj was exclusively for the Funj and Arabs, and it is not known in their history that the negroes inhabited any place north of the Nile, which negates the connection of the Shilluk to the Funj. If it is true that the Shilluk in their ancient history extended to the north, it must have been before the establishment of this Arab Islamic state, and it is doubtful that they extended north to the location of the city of Khartoum.

Similarly, it can be said that the Funj adopted this name after their victory in 1050 AH / 1640 AD and the extension of their influence over Sennar and its surroundings to the south, and that the Shilluk gave them this name considering them as "Awfadin" (a term of respect or endearment), making it a proper noun for them. This was after the Qawasim Arabs allied with the Funj Arabs, and that a marriage took place between the two Arab families, and that this connection continued until Ajib III from the lineage of the Qawasim and the descendants of Amara Dungus. 156