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And that was from the year 1097, and his return from that raid, on the way, he dismissed Askia Al-Hajj in Niskita and appointed Askia Dawud ibn Harun, and the people of Sef followed him. Then the Pasha dismissed him after his return from the raid on Monday, the tenth of Jumada al-Akhira in the mentioned year, and his term was two full years. Muhammad ibn Al-Hajj ibn Dawud Al-Shatwi, known as Al-Ana'idh Buway, took over after the commander Muhammad ibn Ahmad, mentioned before this date, meaning the end of the year 67. In his days, a great many people died, whose number cannot be counted except by God. Among the notables and elders who died in his days were the scholar Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Sadiq, the grandfather of our mother Watn, and the father of our mother, may God have mercy on them. And the grandfather of my father, whose name was Al-Fa' Al-Amin ibn Muhammad Saud, the teacher of the boys, may God have mercy on him. He died at the end of the year. And the scholar judge Abd al-Rahman ibn the scholar Al-Manfi Ahmad Ma'ba, may God have mercy on him, died on the first of seventy and one hundred. And know that in that year, Abd al-Rahman ibn Al-Hajj Muhammad ibn Al-Amin Kunu, may God have mercy on him, died. And in it, the scholar Imam Ahmad ibn the scholar Imam Muhammad Kord, may God have mercy on him, died. And in it, God knows best, Kubr Farm then ibn Kubr Farm Ibrahim Jami', may God have mercy on him, died. And this plague was spread by the great epidemic, and it lasted for two years. Then he was dismissed at the beginning of the year 1071, and Buway Ali Al-Hal Al-Harusi took over after him for one day, and he was repeated in authority twice. This was when the Pasha Ammar Majrud was dismissed, and no one wanted to take over before him except him, meaning the commander Buway, mentioned. He took over subsequently in the year seven.