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Dafa'alla^ ibn el Shafa'i of the 'ArakiIn He lived for some time at Abu Haraz.

34. 2" 'Abdulla ibn Dafa'alla el 'Araki. He was born at Abyad Diri. His mother was Hadia bint 'Atif of the Gimi'ab.. . .'Abd el Rahman^ el Nuwayri accompanied him when he went to the Shaiki'a country to visit 'Abd el Rahman* [ibn Giibir] " In his days came Sheikh Tag el Din^ el Bahari from Baghdad.". . .

Among his pupils were his two brothers Abu Idris* and Hammad el Nil, Muhammad' walad Daud el Lukr and Sheikh Sheraf el Din^ He performed the pilgrimage 24 times.... His sons were Manofali and 'Abd el Rahman Abu Shanab and 'Abd el Rahi'm^ ibn el Khatwa and others.. . .He was buried at Abu Haraz.

35. i°" 'Abdulla ibn Hammad ibn el feki 'Abd el Magid^^." A nephew of Mustafa ['Abd el Magid].

36. " 'Abdulla walad Hasoba el Moghrabi." His father came as a stranger to the land and settled at Soba and

attached himself to Sheikh Idris^"^ [wad el Arbab]. 'Abdulla himself was born at Soba, and migrated later to Um Leban on the White Nile, where

he died and was buried.. . .His sons were Tagur^^ el Nahasi, Muhammad el Bekri, and el Hag.

37. " 'Abdulla ibn Musa 'el Mushammir.' " A Begawi by race; born at Um Hurfa.. , . Sheikh Idri's^* nicknamed him "el Mushammir" ["One who tucks up his clothes"].

38. " 'Abdulla IBN Sabun," He was by birth a slave [mamluk], the property of a woman of el

Kalay'a.. . .Though offered a wife he refused and died unmarried.

40. *' 'Abdulla el Sherif." He was nicknamed "Tuwayl el Halfaya." He was born in Fas.. . . He was a follower of Ahmad ibn Nasir, and died at Sennar.

41. 15 '"Abdulla 'el Terayfi.'"" His father was Sheikh Muhammad Abu 'Akla^^ el Kashif.. . .He was

a pupil of Sheikh Dafa'alla i''.. . . He went on the pilgrimage but died on the road.. . .His sons were named Ahmad ^^ and Muhammad 1^.. . .

"He was called 'Terayfi' from the beauty of his features [atrdf], namely his face and his forearms and his feet."

42. 20 '-'Abu 'Akla.'" His real name was Muhammad.. . .'Akla was his daughter and hence he was called " father of 'Akla." . . . He was a follower of his father's brother Sheikh Abu Idris'-^.. . .His sons were 'Abdulla "el Terayfi -2," Shams el Din, Abu Idris, and Hammad Abu Kurn.

1 No. 83. 2 Tree 9. ^ No. 23. " No. 17. 5 No. 67. 6 I^To ^8^ 7 No. 186. 8 No. 238. 9 No. 13. 10 Tree 2. ^^ No. 10. 12 No. 141.

13 reading j^a-U for j^a-^J, No. 246. 1* No. 141.

15 Tree 9. ' ^^ ^o. 42. " No. 84. i^ No. 56. 19 No. 177. 20 Tree 9. ^i ^o. 48. 22 No. 41.

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