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el Din el Bahari^ and Muhammad el Hindi.. . .He died and was buried at
el Wa'ar.
72. ^"Barakat Hammad ibn el Sheikh Idris." He was a follower of el Imam 'Ali ibn Abu Talib and of his own grandfather Sheikh Idris ^.. . .Among his disciples were the fekis Medowi* ibn Medani and Muhammad ibn Yusef. ...He had ten sons, including Medowi^, Arbab, 'Araki, 'Abd el Rahman and Hammad.
73. "Basbar 'el Shukri.'" By birth he was a Ga'ali 'Oni.. . .He was named Basbar by his mother. . . . He was born at el Mekayna and was a follower of Sheikh Sheraf el Din ^
Among his pupils were the two Awlad Barri ', Hamayd el Saridi ^ and the Awlad^elHagFdid....
"It is related that Sheikh Basbar married a woman of the
Ahamda ['a Hammadi'a'] and divorced her. Then there came to her a son of her father's brother, a Hammadi, a disciple [hozcdr] of
Sheikh 'Abd el Razik Abu Kurun, and married her, in spite of [Basbar's] warning to him. And [the Hammadi] said to his 'Sheikh' ['Abd el Razik] ' You must protect me from him ' ; and [the Sheikh] replied 'Do not go near the river.' [Now these Ahamda] were riverain folk. And it is said that that man never went near the river
for years; until finally his wife became pregnant and bore a child. Then he went close to the river for the shaving-ceremony of his child; and the moment he put his foot into the water a crocodile seized it and bit him that he died. Then [the crocodile] cast him upon the river bank. Then Basbar, who was [sitting] under the acacia
trees, cried out 'He got him, he got him, did my boy 'Ali.' Now
'Ali at that time was a small boy, [still] with a tuft on his head.". . .
Basbar's sons were el Bedowi and Medani and 'Abd el Kadir Abu Kurun.
74. i°" Bedowi walad Abu Delayk" (d. 11 18" a.h.). It is said that his father was named 'Abdulla, and that his mother's name was Gawadi, and that he was by origin a Kahli.. . ."Sheikh Khogali^^ once said 'The fire of 'Abd el Kadir, after [the death of] Sheikh Idris ^^, was with Sheikh Bedowi.'". . .
Several traditions and remarks concerning him and a number of verses are quoted. One story is as follows: the scene is at Wad Hasuna.
"And I was in doubt whether to light the fire on the higher plateau or whether to go down to the river and do so at Sellama. Then I saw
the Prophet of God. . .and he said to me 'Dwell in the red country with the red people ' ; and ' the red country ' is the hill of el Nigfa^
^ No. 67. 2 Tree 4. ^ No. 141. * No. 168. 5 No. 166. 6 No. 238. ' Nos. 58 and 136. » No. 129. ^ No. 6. ^° Tree 12. ^^ 1706 a.d. ^^ Nq. 154. ^^ No. 141.