From that mentioned year and its beginning, the Eid al-Fitr arrived, and they entered safely without spoils. Some even claimed that the Pasha did not want them to pray with him until they had gained spoils, but this is not as the claimants assert. Rather, the Pasha observed their inability to stand firm and fight them, and therefore it was not advisable to approach them until the army suffered losses, as happened to his brother Hamad in Talq, as if he had foresight. It is said that similar words were spoken and uttered at that time, saying: "I heard from the wise elders that in the end times, one of the descendants of Pasha Masoud bin Mansour will emerge hastily, and he will be a Pasha on an expedition to Tadakkakt. Then they will meet and fight until the Tuareg defeat the Pasha's army, overcome them, and inflict a terrible defeat upon them, and they will be pursued intensely until they are almost wiped out. The Pasha will be killed." Therefore, I feared that I might be him when he spoke these words. The commander Nasser bin Commander Abdullah bin Nasser al-Dar'i said to him: "You have spoken the truth in what you heard from your saying, but you are not him. As for him, he is in your house among your brothers. You and I did not live in his time." And before this, these words were only spoken during the expedition of Anas, which was the third expedition I went on with him to the west. On this route, in this camp from Marsa Karn, he stopped and did not move to march. And Iskya al-Mukhtar bin Shams was in the Sultanate of Tuskia, and he marched with him in the camp. Then we moved towards Ras al-Ma from the west, where Anas bin Shankabi the Tuareg was. He and his companions, the Tuareg, fled from the Pasha and were not caught. The Pasha stirred up with a small contingent of the army, about forty men, and left the camp with Tuareg and Adah. The mentioned Pasha said in his words and talk that the archers should not be sent on an expedition unless there are ten with nine, after their gathering, and it is time for their killing.