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- 73 -He asked for his residency from them, but that was not the reality of the matter. Then the Imam of the mosque came for the morning prayer [48]. He was alone with him, and Kahia al-Marakishiyyin, Kahia Ali bin al-Jasim, heard him. He advised him, as if for his own good, to rely on God. He accepted and kissed him, then walked to his house after they prayed Fajr behind the Imam. The people of his neighborhood stayed at the door of his house on Wednesday night. The next morning, on Thursday, he was brought out in the second year of his rule. He remained there and did not move to do anything until Tuesday, the thirteenth of Sha'ban. They turned against him and deposed him for eight days, then reinstated him on the ninth day as well. After his return, there was a famine and a plague, or a sedition that filled the earth with extreme scarcity. From the east to the west of the land, from the region of the land of Baniib to the land of Hatta, and it entered the land of Daram and Ruba, and the direction of Kadakkiya and what is adjacent to it, from the basin to Karm. There was no land, no country, and no village that was not the same as the other. And the events and extreme scarcity began, the likes of which had not subsided before this time, since the days of Commander al-Hasan al-Amri. It continued to increase until it reached the horizons and regions. The severity reached a point where people ate the carcasses of animals, humans, and spilled blood. Many people died in the famine, and so many people died that only God knows their number. People's strength was exhausted to the point that they were unable to prepare the dead. And people continued in this state, increasing and dying of hunger every day. People were being shrouded in cloaks until the people of the sea and the people of Kess were only shrouding them in mats or in bundles. Until they were unable to achieve that, they carried people and threw them in the desert like the Caliph, and some of them left them where they fell, whether in houses or alleys, without washing or prayer. The extreme scarcity continued in everything, from food and other than food, and clothing, and even what people wore, such as shirts and other garments, until the price of one cup of wheat reached ten thousand dinars or more, and one measure of wheat reached three hundred dinars. . لصلاة الصحي Peut-être faut-il lire . لصلاة الصحي Ms. 1