If there is no one else in your ranks but you, and the Madhi's forces are upon you, they will aim their projectiles at you. So, he abandoned riding it and had one of his followers ride it. Then, the bullets rained down on him like hail. He fell, writhing in his blood.

When the Madhi marched to the Jebel Qadiri mountains, Al-Ta'ayshi, who was in Qaria, was like the Bedouins who had gathered around the Madhi in those mountains. He began to strive to refine their morals and manners and to guide them in ways that would lead them to him. From then on, he became an advisor to the Madhi and a plenipotentiary minister to him in many matters. The Madhi's relatives used to support him and hold him in high esteem. When the Madhi issued the manifesto that we previously mentioned, he praised him, so they stopped harming him and subdued his enemies.

Al-Ta'ayshi was content with little from the treasury. He would not ask for anything from the treasury except what was permitted by its treasurer, Ahmad Sulayman, who would not give him more than one hundred riyals per month. The Madhi's relatives, however, received the largest share from the treasury. I saw Ahmad Di, Al-Ta'ayshi's uncle and the father of Prince Muhammad, begging from people's homes, as did the rest of Al-Ta'ayshi's relatives, who numbered about three hundred men. However, this was before the Madhi's caliphate reached their village.

The Caliphate of Al-Ta'ayshi When the Madhi died and Abdullah Al-Ta'ayshi was sworn in, the people became fearful. The Madhi's relatives and Ahmad Sulayman, the treasurer, were in great fear of the consequences of his taking power from them. As for him, as we have mentioned, he was more astonished and more fearful than them of the Madhi's death and the bad outcome that would result from it. He confided in his relatives that he feared bloodshed.