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 deposition 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 Muhammad 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 ijLI for aJLI.

is explained in 3 6 9 1.

1662 A.D. No. 132. No. 65.

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