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They entered the country, gathered, and spoke about the Sultanate. They agreed on the mentioned leader Abdullah, and his statement: " Pasha, may his reign be long," then after Al-Asfar, the day of his investiture, which was the day of the death of the leader Basha, son of the leader Al-Mubarak. The mentioned Pasha Abdullah entered with the army into the house of the leader Mansour and remained in greatness. They unpacked whatever they could at that time of furnishings, clothes, and household utensils. While they were thus until after the Maghrib prayer, the leader Mansour came to them with his archers and his 'eid (drummers/musicians) and shouted at them, beat the instruments, the trumpets, and the drums. Then some of those in the house came out, some climbed onto the roof and fell behind, and fled. Some entered the houses of the neighborhood until they found the alley and fled. The Pasha then went out to his house, and it is said that he left his shoes in that house due to the speed of his exit from it. When the leader Mansour reached the door of the house of the faqih Al-Haj Abdul Rahman bin Ismail Yur, the Pasha rushed out after he had ordered the door of his house to be barred with wood. His envoy, Bab Jum Al-Hada, who is an old man of ugly appearance, one of the envoys of Jum Kura, came out after the door was barred, walked to his house, and rested. The news of Yahya, the leader Mansour, or the exit of Pasha Abdullah from the house of the leader Mansour was not known until morning. When morning came, he went to the house of the leader Mansour, entered, and found him in his house, and he did not realize it until he was upon him. He said to him: "Are you the one who ordered Abdullah bin Al-Kahi Al-Haj to bar the doors of his house?" He was confused, moved away, and trembled. He said to him: "I have only come at this hour to greet you." He said to him: "Come out to us." So he came out and greeted him. And his 'eid killed one man named

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