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The thirty-first, and one hundred after a thousand. Then the Pasha Mansour ordered on Thursday evening, the twenty-seventh of it, that the camp should be broken up. Let everyone who was a Sharif and his brothers leave the town and let none of them remain with him in his town. And this town is his town. And on the following day, Friday, the twenty-eighth of it, the Commander Ba'had attacked him, put on his armor, and was followed by his archers, his 'eid, his people of Hamat, and his close associates. The general populace secretly followed. The cannon fired upon him, and he said, "What we were in is a call to arms," which is a word they use to rally their ancestors, according to their old custom. When Pasha Mansour heard it, he said, "Ba'had has attacked himself and stood against the Timbuktu people. His head will come, God willing." And there was a strife between him and all the people of Timbuktu, so much so that it was said that Commander Ba'had ascended and called upon the people to wage jihad, saying, "Jihad is in the way of God," at the mosque of Al-Jazouli. Then Commander Ba'had returned to his house that day. When he returned, the fighting intensified, and a decisive battle ensued between him and the Pasha. It became clear that on the morning of Saturday, the last day of Dhu al-Qi'dah, they attacked him at dawn. They surrounded him like the Great Mosque, besieged him, and blocked all his routes until they entered the house of his master, Muhammad bin Al-Tanrasi, and looted everything in it in the blink of an eye. Then they began to try to enter his house, and he was on top of his house, fighting them, firing his cannon, sometimes turning to the East, and sometimes to the archers. His men and his 'eid were in the street, and he had no one in his house except his two servants. Truly, he was defeated, and his followers and brothers realized that victory was not theirs on this day. The archers approached his house until they reached the door of the house of Commander Ali bin Ibrahim. From there, he mounted his horse with some of his followers, like Al-Qal.

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