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Al-Murani on Monday, the twenty-fifth of Dhu al-Qi'dah, at the end of the year 1142, and he stayed there for nineteen years. His stay with them in this country was brief, most of his time being spent in the wilderness. Then he descended in the year 1161. Then Askia Mahmoud bin Kan Qari, Imad bin Kan Qari Abd al-Rahman bin Bank, Faraam Bakr Kishaa' from the Fudank bin Farn Ammar Kazaa', appointed him by Pasha Bakr bin Al-Fa' Mansour bin Al-Qa'id Muhammad bin Ali Al-Mubarak Al-Dur'i at the end of Dhu al-Qi'dah, at the end of the year 1161. He is the one who is there today in the wilderness, but we heard that they removed him, and God knows best.
As for the rulers in the city of Timbuktu, many others from various peoples have been appointed to it, but I have not found the name or history of any who preceded them. As for those whose order we knew from the people of Al-Huzn and others, there were forty-eight rulers. The first was Al-Qa'id Nasser bin Abdullah Al-A'mash Al-Dur'i, then Al-Fa' Al-Hasan bin Mansour, then Al-Qa'id Saeed bin Buzian Al-Hijazi, then Al-Kahiyah Al-Haj S. Saeed Al-Murani, then Al-Qa'id Al-Hasan bin Mansour Al-Munabbih, then Al-Kahiyah Sousi Al-Marrakshi, then Al-Qa'id Sataagh bin Fares Liqasi, then Al-Qa'id Abdullah bin Al-Qa'id Nasser bin Abdullah Al-A'mash Al-Dur'i, then his brother Al-Kahiyah Muhammad bin Nasser, the aforementioned, then his brother Al-Qa'id Ibrahim bin Hassoun, then Al-Kahiyah Abn Al-Kahiyah Abd al-Karim bin Hamd bin Yusuf Al-Abaji, then the ruler Abd al-Rahman bin Shaih Al-Rumi, then the ruler Ali bin Al-Kahiyah Al-Haj Saeed Al-Murani, then Al-Kahiyah Shaikh Al-Shahr Bishij Bakr, then Al-Qa'id Abd al-Qadir bin Al-Qa'id S. Muhammad Al-Tazrakiki, then Al-Qa'id Abdullah bin Al-Haj S. Saeed Al-Murani, then Al-Kahiyah Shaikh bin Al-Qa'id Bakr Al-Murani, then the ruler Abdullah bin Musa Al-Dur'i, then the ruler Al-Fa' Abd al-Rahman bin Ali bin Yusuf Al-Milji, then the ruler Al-Mubarak Al-Dur'i, known as Ba'd Man Bal, then the ruler Muhammad Al-Murd bin Abdullah Sarati, then Al-Qa'id.