Children and every male, even if he was not a woman, were killed. This began...

...and peace be upon the master of His messengers and prophets, Muhammad and his family, and his companions and allies.

And thereafter, I have completed the first part of the book (Sudan between Kitchener and Gordon) up to the incident of the fall of Khartoum with the killing of the blessed male (Gordon Pasha) and the country falling into the hands of the Mahdi, and our capture and the capture of the family. It remains to mention from the subject of this book what is related to that. So we say, and in God is the aid.

The Establishment of the Mahdist State in Sudan Khartoum was the capital of the Sudan region. Its fall into the hands of the Mahdi made all of Sudan subject to him, except for the region of Equatoria, which was at that time the seat of...

There were two cities that had not yet fallen to the English.

These are the city of Sennar, the capital of the Sennar region, and the city of Kassala, the capital of the (Taka) province. And on that day, the situation of these two cities indicated their imminent fall.

The details of all this will come in its place.

The number of people in Khartoum on the day of its fall was twenty-four thousand men, and they were killed.

...at dawn. And before sunrise...

The Khalifa (Sharif) issued the orders.