230 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ds.
57. '"Ali WALAD Abu DUKN." His father was a Dongolawi.. . .His mother's name was Siaka.. . .His burial-place was el Ruays near el Halfaya.. . .Sheikh Idris^ visited his tomb.
58. -'"Ali ibn Barri" (b. loio to 1013 a.h.; d. 1073^ a.h.). His mother was Umhani bint el Wali 'Ali ibn Kandi'l el Saridi.... Various laudations of him are quoted, including one hy the feki Sughayerun^
el Shakalawi, who said " I knew Sheikh Idri's^ and Walad Hasuna^ and 'Abd el Razik'^ and Basbar^, but I found none of them as quick in his answers as this boy, 'Ali ibn Barri.". . .
Among his pupils was the feki Arbab el Khashan ^. . . . His "sheikh " was Basbar, and the famous case of Basbar and the Hammadia woman is related
in the biographies of both master and pupil.. . . 'Ali also had a dispute with Mismar el Halashi of Kerri about a cow and foretold the resultant deposi-
tion of Mismar by the King of Sennar, in favour of 'Ali ibn 'Othman. "And they have been deposed [from their power] until this present day. His son Khidr held the sheikhship after el 'Agayl for six months and was then deposed; and Mismar the son of Walad ^° 'Agib [ruled] for two months after Sheikh 'Abdulla, and was then deposed."
59. " 'Ali walad Dhiab, el Kurayshabi." He was born at Aslang Island and taught by fekis BelaF^ and Abu el Hasan ^".. . .He visited Sennar, and finally died at Koz walad Barakat where he had started a school.. . .Muhammad el Nur Subr and other
descendants of Hammad^^ ibn Mariam were among his pupils.
" 'Ali ibn Hammuda" {vide sub "Bakadi," No. 68). 60. '"Ali walad 'Ishayb."
"He was born at Dongola. He was taught by Sheikh Muham-
mad el Banufari in Egypt and excelled in learning. Then he settled
in the south, and Sheikh 'Agi'b the Great built him a mosque, and the king of the Fung granted him many lands on the east bank
and in the Gezi'ra [el HUoi] and in the rainlands, and he acted as a judge and did justice therein and gave judgements according to the
accepted standards and to the [more] valid arguments in the dispute.
And he was the companion of Sheikh Ibrahim el Bulad ibn Gabir in the quest after learning in Egypt; and it is said that each of
the two prayed a prayer against the other and obtained his desire
therein: Sheikh 'Ali walad 'Ishayb prayed against Sheikh Ibrahim el Bulad saying 'May God shorten your life [that you may die] in your youth'; and the whole incident^* is explained in The
1 No. 141. 2 Tree 3. * No. 242. 5 No. 141. ' No. 27. 8 No. 73. ^° reading jJjjJj for djJjjJj. ^^ No. 89.
13 No. 124. 1" reading ijL^I for aJL^I.
is explained in
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