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Al-Ta'ayshi. After the death of Al-Mahdi, the second was Fatima bint Ahmad Sharif al-Duklawi, who was the wife of his brother Ahmad, who was killed in the incident of Al-Abyad. Al-Mahdi was married to her sister and had several children from her. So her brother died and her husband was killed, so Al-Mahdi married her and she was one of the mothers of the believers. She did not have any children from him except for a son named Al-Kamil, who died as a child. Her mother, Hameeda, used to dress as a man, carry weapons, and ride horses. She used to stand up and preach in men's gatherings, saying to them: "Hold on to God and His Messenger, and His Mahdi, and the son of his Mahdi, Al-Kamil, and the mother of the believers, his mother, and the grandmother of Al-Kamil, for there is no salvation for a person in the hereafter except through them." So Al-Ta'ayshi summoned her and rebuked her and forbade her from mixing with men, and threatened her if she returned to her previous ways. She obeyed his orders in front of him, but when she went out to the people, she told them that Al-Ta'ayshi envied her, just as Quraysh envied the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace. The third was Fatima bint Hajaj, who was the daughter of Hajaj, whose marriage to her we mentioned in Khartoum. He divorced her when she insisted on the necessity of earning a living from boat making. Then he remarried her after the conquest of the island of Aba, and after his marriage to Ahmad Sharif. He had three daughters from her. Abd Allah Al-Ta'ayshi married one of them after her father's death, and married the second to Al-Haj Ali. The fourth was Fatima bint Hussein Al-Hijazi, who was Egyptian from the people of the Mudiriyat al-Hudud. Her father settled in an area close to the island of Aba. She was married to Muhammad Salih Al-Hijazi. Before his call, Al-Mahdi used to visit the house of her husband, who was... he did not hide from her due to his excessive reliance on her righteousness. So she revealed...

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