232 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ds.
Several miracles are recorded of him :
(i) "Sheikh Muhammad^ ibn 'fsa was nigh unto death, and his wife, the daughter of el Malik Hasan walad Kashash^ the king of Dongola, and mother of Hilali^ his son, said to him 'Your elder sons you have guided [in the right way] ; but who is to look after my
son?' And he said to her 'You must [apply to] el Hadari.' Then she came and brought her bracelets and anklets and said to him
(i.e. el Hadari) 'I want you to make my son to sit in the seat of his father.' He replied [to her son] ' Son of my Sheikh, sit on my prayer- mat': so he sat there. Then [el Hadari] arose and ran round the room
[khalzva] and came and knelt before him and took hold of his hand
and kissed it, saying ' I have made you to sit in the seat of your father.' And indeed Hilali attained ^ great eminence among the Fung and the Arabs and acted as a judge and a teacher of all kinds of knowledge."...
(2) "There came to him a certain man called Ibn 'Abad, who was addicted to evildoing^, and said to him 'I have a flourishing water-wheel and give you a quarter [share] in it.' And he replied
' What do you want from me ? ' The man answered ' I want the grace ® of God.' ['Awuda] said 'I give you a quarter of God's grace.' Then the man repented and asked pardon of God. Afterwards he came
again and said 'I have made it up to a half; and ['Awuda] said 'And I grant you half of the grace of God.' And the man improved more and more : and finally he came and said ' I give you the whole water-wheel ' ; and ['Awuda] said to him ' I give you the whole of God's grace'; and the man fell down in a faint [and remained so] for some days, but finally he became a paragon and one of the saints
[auliyd] of God.". . .
(3) "Mismar walad 'Araybi in his journey to Dongola in the year 1070' wrought havoc among the men of rank and dignity^; and
the people appealed to him [' Awuda] for help, and he said to them
' His destruction will be at the hands of the short pale bald man ; and as for me, I am your security that the Sheikh of Kerri shall not enter
Dongola: if he comes, [and if] 'Awuda is alive, strain some beer for him and he will drink it; and if he be dead pour it over his tomb.' I say that most of these events connected with the Sheikh ['Awuda] are fully corroborated, and are compatible with the Book and the
Law [sunna] and the Unanimities'*."
He went on the pilgrimage, and met Sheikh 'Ali el Ag-huri en route.
1 No. 191. 2 reading t^l-^& forj^lCi^. ^ No. 134.
■* reading iJa.^ for .-Jfl.^. ^ reading ^j\^a. for p_jl^».. ^ reading J-JI for JJUI. ' 1659 a.d. ^ reading ol^xfc.1 for ol^a-t. ^ reading cl<i».t for cl©.*.!