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and I want you to get it back for me from him.' And the feki Hammad believed her story and complained against 'Abd el Mahmud to the troops encamped at Abu Zariba; but they said to him 'We will not interfere in your affairs.' Then the feki Hammad wrote to him a letter on a tablet and the contents were as follows: 'From Hammad ibn Mariam to 'Abd el Matrud. God Almighty said "Give the women their dowry freely," and you have disobeyed the book of God and robbed the woman of her dowry. You are no 'Abd el Mahmud

[lit. "Slave of Him that is praised"], you are 'Abd el Matrud [lit. "Slave of the expelled one"]!' — that is the devil. This letter he gave to a Fezari fakir; and ['Abd el Mahmud] said to him 'You are my disciple [howdri] and I have educated you, and do you

bring me a letter like this ? ' And God caused that fakir to die the very same day. [Meanwhile] the feki Hammad was staying in his village, which is at Omdurman, when fire broke out and consumed

all his rooms and surrounded the room in which he was on every

side. And the people said to him 'Come out'; but he replied 'I won't ! Shall I leave my books ? ' Then Ahmad ibn 'Ali el 'dnabi went in after him and brought him out, bed and all. Then they re-

built the rooms with stone but the fire blazed up in the stone. And indeed we have seen written in the handwriting of the feki Hammad

the following : ' After I escaped from the fire all and sundry believed in him and were amazed at him, and,' he added, 'el Husna has done all this: she said he robbed her of her dowry, — may God call her

to account!'"

12. " 'Abd el Nur ibn Obayd." He was a follower of Sheikh Muhammad^ walad Da'ud el Lukr, and was buried at Abu Haraz.

"'Abd el Rahim ibn el Sheikh Sulayman el Zamli" {vide sub "Wadad,"No. 251).

13. 2" 'Abd el Rahim ^ ibn el Sheikh 'Abdulla* el 'Araki."... He was known as " Ibn el Khatwa.". . .He was born in the Hegaz.

14. ^"'Abd el Rahman 'Abu Fak' ibn Medani^ walad Um

Gadayn."

He was born and buried at Nuri in the Shai'kia country, but spent part of his life at el Abwab.

15. ^"'Abd el Rahman ibn AsId" (d. 1127 a.h.^). His mother was Sitt el Dar the daughter of Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman^ ibn Hammadtu, and his father Asid, a Shaiki of the Awlad Um SAlim section.. . .He was born at Nuri.... He was taught law [Khali/] by his

1 No. 186. 2 Tree 9. ^ reading _,^»yJljuc for ^j..o^ji\j^. * No. 34. ^ Tree 10. ^ No. 164. ' Tree 10. 8 1715 a.d. ^ No. 21.