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5 "'Abd el Halim ibn Sultan ibn 'Abd el Rahman ibn el feki Muhammad Bahr, el Moghrabi el Fasi." His grandfather came to the Sudan with a merchant from Egypt.. . .He

himself was born at el Halfaya, and his mother's name was Siaka.. . .He was taught by Sheikhs Sughayerun^ and Idris^.

6. '"Abd el Kadir el Bakkai ibn el Hag Fai'd." He was born at Shendi, and had a brother named Hammuda. . . . He

was a disciple of Sheikh Muhammad el Medowi^ ibn el Misri.. . .He was buried at Abu Haraz.

7. *" 'Abd el Kadir ibn el Sheikh Idri's." He was the youngest son of his father ^, and was born at Abyad Di'ri.. . . His mother was Tahira bint walad Abu 'Akrab, a Mahassi'a.. . .He had a son, Idris.

8. "'Abd el Keri'm ibn 'Agi'b ibn Koruma, el Kahli." He learnt Sufiism from the feki Nafa'i el Fezari, who died at el Basha- kira, and who was taught it by Mukhtar^ walad Abu 'Anaya, el Gama'i

\i.e. of the Gawama'a tribe], who was taught it by Taha' walad 'Omara, who was taught it by Sheikh Dafa'alla ^ ibn el Shafa'i, who was taught it by el Hag 'AbduUa^ el Halanki, the disciple of Sheikh Dafa'alla ^^ The feki Muhammad ibn Medani was one of his pupils. He went on the pilgrimage but was never heard of again.

9. " 'Abd el Latif el Khatib ibn el Khatib 'Omara^^." He was born at Sennar and in time succeeded his father as preacher. . . . He was profoundly learned, and performed the pilgrimage.. . .His death, at the hands of el Malik Subr, was avenged upon the latter by King Badi.

10. 12 " 'Abd EL Magid IBN Hammad elAghbash" (d.1121 a.h.^^). He was taught by his father Hammad ^^, and, in his turn, taught the feki Mekki walad Serag el Magdhub, and the feki Walad Abu 'Asida, and the feki Samih el Tamirabi, and the latter's two sons Sa'ad and Hammad.

11. ^^" 'Abd el Mahmud el Nofalabi." An 'Araki of the stock of Mahmud ^^ " Ragil el Kusr.". . .He was born at el Kubia and attained very great fame.. . .He was a contemporary of Sheikh Khogali^^, whose daughter he married.. . .He was a party to a famous "cause celebre" described as follows:

'Abd el Mahmud had married a Ga'ali woman called Husna and by her had two daughters: she then demanded a divorce from him,

"and he said to her 'Settle your dowry upon my daughters'; and when she had done so he divorced her. Then she went to the feki

Hammad^** and offered herself to him, forgoing her right to a dowry;

and he married her. And she said to him ' I have been unjustly treated by 'Abd el Mahmud : he robbed me of my stipulated right,

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