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Qalawun. In Sudan, we find the Musalmiya, the only tribe that traces its lineage to Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, may God be pleased with him. Many of them call themselves the Bakriya, distancing their lineage from both the Ja'aliyin and the Juhayniyin. They live in the Gezira, where a center is named after them, and on the banks of the White Nile. Most of them are settled, practicing agriculture, and they have a small branch in al-Batinah that lives a nomadic life. Likewise, the 'Umariyin, sons of 'Umar, may have entered Sudan at various times. A group of them entered the land of Sudan in the third Hijri century during the campaign of 'Abd al-Rahman ibn 'Abd Allah al-'Umari. A group of the 'Umariyin fled to Sudan during the days of al-Zahir Baybars, and they are the family of 'Asim ibn 'Amir ibn Qasir al-'Umari, from the Banu 'Umar ibn al-Khattab. As for the Ja'afara tribe, named after Ja'far ibn Abi Talib, there were groups of them who settled in Upper Egypt, and their remnants remain to this day between Qus and Esna. Then groups of them spread south to the land of Mahas. Nevertheless, they have a branch living in Kordofan and connected to the Jawami'a. Also found in Wadi al-'Allaqi in the mining land, among the tribes working in that place, is the 'Alliqat tribe. They lived in that place for a long time, and after the valley was ruined, they migrated north to the land of Upper Egypt and to Sinai. It appears that the reason for their being named al-'Alliqat is related to this place, Wadi al-'Allaqi, and they may have taken that name as a reference to 'Aqil ibn Abi Talib, who resides in this place between al-Meyqiq and Kereysk, and also from the descendants of 'Aqil ibn Abi Talib are the group of al-Warada in the land of Mahas. In Dongola, the former capital of Makuria, lived the Suwar al-Dhahab family, the family of Sheikh Muhammad ibn 'Isa. In their accounts, he traces his lineage back . 216