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67. "'El Bahari,' i.e. Tag el Din, el Baghdadi." "His actual name was Muhammad. 'El Bahari' was a surname

due to the saying 'a shining \hdhir\ moon has passed,' and he was so called from the light of his countenance, — sweet is the odour of his story. He was the Sheikh, the Imam, the divine Kutb, the im-

mortal Ghauth, the successor of Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir el Gilani. He was born at Baghdad, and went on the pilgrimage, and thence

to the Sudan by leave of the Prophet of God . . . and of Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir el Gilani. He came with Daud ibn 'Abd el Gehl, the father

of el Hag Sa'id, the ancestor of the people of el 'Aydag^ early in the second half of the tenth century, at the beginning of the rule of

Sheikh 'Agib ; and he dwelt with Daud at Wad el Sha'i'r behind Um 'Azam."...

He married in the Gezira and lived there for seven years.... "He was the instructor of five famous men, viz. Sheikh Muhammad

el Hamim^, and Sheikh Ban el Nuka 'el Darir^,' and Hegazi the founder of Arbagi and its mosque, and Sha'a el Dm walad Tuaym the ancestor of the Shukria, and Sheikh 'Agib the Great."

It is said he taught 40 persons including the feki Hammad el Negid* the head of Aslang mosque, and the feki Rahma ^ the ancestor of the Halawiin, and the 'omda Walad Abu Sadik, and Ban el Nuka "el Darir^" ["the

blind "].... It is also said he journeyed to Tekali and there instructed 'Abdulla el Gamal, the ancestor of Sheikh Hammad' walad el Turabi.

68. "'Bakadi.'" His real name was 'AH ibn Hammuda, el Kahli el Aswadi. He was born at el Shara'ana and was a pupil of Hamid Abu Muna.

69. "Bakdush ibn Surur, el Gamu'i." A pupil of Sheikh Muhammad^ walad 'fsa.. . .He was appointed by Sheikh 'Agib the Great.

70. 9" 'Ban el Nuka' walad el Sheikh 'Abd el Razik." His father called him "Ban el Nuka" after his grandfather i".. . ."He died at about the age of 40, or rather more."

71 . " " ' Ban EL Nuka ' ibn Hammad ibn el Sheikh lDRis,el Fadli." His actual name was Muhammad.. . .His mother was a Sudanese.. . .

"He was called 'Ban el Nuka' because his mother said 'My purity

[nukdt] (that is innocence) has been revealed [ban].' He was a staff of support to King Nail. "...He was acquainted with Sheikhs Tag

^ written j^juxJl.

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3 No. 71

* No. 126. 5 No. 221.

6 No. 71

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