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For the Eid festival, and whoever had a washed or new garment and wore it for a day, and when the Eid saw it, they had to come to him that night and ask him about it. If they found it, they would take it from him. If they did not find it, they would take whatever they found in that house until he had nothing left, then they would beat him and everyone there, or strip him naked along with everyone in his house, and wound them with iron. They would not leave him unharmed unless God Almighty saved him from them. Wonders and strange things appeared of all kinds of oppression and bad deeds in the town, such as drinking alcohol openly day and night, and entering the homes of the innocent by force, and taking whatever they liked from them, whether they liked it or not. They were unable to complain about them to the authorities, and they would even beat them and take their keys from their shoulders whenever they met them on the road. Even the prominent ones, like Al-Bundar, known by their chief Al-Haj Ahmad bin Jalloun, fell to the ground and were stripped. In the end, they went out to the market road and sat for those passing by to the market. Whenever one passed, they would pounce on him and beat him with a whip in their hands, no matter who he was. And every night they gathered in their camps, and they had to raid the town after finishing their thefts and plunder and harming the Muslims. And thus they acted in the town day and night from the time they arrived. I have forgotten many of their deeds, but they were on their ways of transgression, tyranny, and harm, as they said, "My master Hashim bin My master Ahmad Budi, brother of My master Abdullah bin My master Hadd."

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