- 2 -The letter Zaa, eight and ninety names, and with their repetitions, one hundred and forty-five. We will mention them in their respective letters with their histories and biographies, God willing. Perhaps you will find in one of the letters a single name, as in the letter Haa, the name of Joder alone. Then from the letters names, then in one of the letters three names, then two names in some letters, then one name in the letter Dhaa, which is Dhaa al-Nun bin Al-Hajj Al-Mukhtar bin Bu Yukhuf Al-Sharqi. I have named it "Tadhkirat al-Nisyan fi Akhbar Muluk al-Sudan" (A Reminder for the Forgetful in the News of the Kings of Sudan), so it became published prose. We ask God Almighty for help and success. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no might nor power except in God, the Most High, the Most Great.

The Letter Jeem Joder, who was a short, dark-skinned youth, was the first Pasha from Marrakesh to Sennar. His rise was in the year ninety-nine, and his reign lasted nine months, from Muharram to Shawwal, the twenty-sixth of it. Then he was deposed. During his reign, he moved to Sennar and fought with Askia Ishaq bin Askia Dawud, and broke his army in the blink of an eye. Then Timbuktu came.