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... and he was removed on Friday the twenty-fifth of the month, meaning the sacred month. This was in the year 1153 AH, after he had been in power for a year and seven months. At the end of the month, Mawlay Abd Allah bin Mawlay bin Nasir, a descendant of Sultan Mawlay Ismail, arrived in the city and also settled in the Huma of Qasm Bank, with the Sharqaa, as their guest. He bought from them the house where he had previously stayed, and he rebuilt it, making many domes. He bought a lot of mazab and incorporated it into the fortifications of the walls on all four sides. On Tuesday, after noon, the sixth day of Safar al-Khair, it was recorded that Umm Bint Sheikh al-Madahin, for the people of Sukri, Al-Faqih Abd bin Al-Malama, Al-Faqih Sidi bin Farid al-Dahr, and the lamp of his time, Al-Faqih al-Alim al-Bahr al-Fahama Sidi Ahmad Baba, may God Almighty have mercy on him, Amen, and have mercy on his ancestors, and may their blessings and intercessions return to us, Amen. On Monday, the twelfth of Safar, strife broke out between Commander Ahmad bin Mansur bin Al-Faqih Muhammad bin Ali and Commander Said, the dismissed. They fought that day because of his dismissal, and he claimed that the aforementioned Commander Hamad was the one who dismissed him. Then they reconciled on the evening of the army on the fifteenth of the month, in the mosque of Commander Amer bin Al-Hasan bin Al-Zubayr. He was also reinstated after the dismissal of Commander Al-Hasan bin Muhammad Al-Amri on Sunday, the nineteenth of Rabi' al-Nabawi in the year 1154 AH. The army agreed to it, and he was in Kess at that time to build his house there. They sent their messengers to him, who were the advisor, the Sheikh of the Ruyya, and the deputy of Kahya of the people of the district, the upper Pashawat. They came to him in Kess and told him, "Speak to the army, and hasten to make you Pasha." And they stayed with him that night. Then they accompanied him until noon on Monday, and he stayed there until the last third of the night. Then the ink ran out, until he entered the mosque.

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