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and ' the red people ' are the BATAHiN. So T built a retreat [khalzva] and in front of it a porch [rdkilba]. [And it happened that] a man
of the MarghumarI had slain a son of Sheikh Na'i'm el Bathani^ and by chance came to me; so I put him inside the retreat and sat myself in the porch. [Then the avengers] came and entered
[the retreat] after him and slew him and said to me ' Sheikh Na'i'm farts warnings, and you are making trouble for yourself.' [Then] they set fire to the retreat, but it would not take hold. And I said
'These are no people [for me], I won't live with them.' And again I saw the Prophet of God, and as I was sitting before him I perceived many black ants making for him from the four quarters; and I said,
'My lord, the Prophet of God, what are those ants [doing] ?' And he said ' They are come to you [for protection] ; stay where you are ; let no one interfere with [lit. come to] them.' [And so] here am I
[lit. you see me^], O Sherif, in this place, eating my food [lit. my blessing] and awaiting my end.. . .
And when he drew nigh unto death he said ' O ye women of the Kawahla, I will be your [strong] rock** on the day of the resurrec-
tion'; and he died in the year 1118^; and in that same year el Samih made war on Shendi."
75. " Bedr iBN EL Sheikh Selman iBN Yasir." "He embraced the tenets of Sufiism like his father, and was a follower of his father Sheikh Selman, and instructed the people. His clothes were always of wool [suf], and he was held in high esteem by the kings, and by the tribes of the Arabs from Berber to Upper Egypt....
His sons were el Amin and Sheikh Muhammad and Abu Salih,
and 'AH the son of the Bishari'a woman.". . . He was buried with his father.
76. "Bedr ibn el Sheikh Um Barak ibn el Sheikh Maski'n, EL Khafi."
All the Maskinab, except a very few, are descended from him.
77. "Bekri ibn el Sheikh 'Abdulla^ ibn Hasoba." His kubba is at Soba Bekri, but he died and was buried at Um Leban
on the White Nile "with his father Sheikh 'Abdulla."
78. "Bekri walad el feki Idris." He was born at Gedid, where his kubba now stands " He had the prophetic gift and was a friend of my grandfather the feki Muhammad
walad DayfuUa."
1 reading w>U^j-« for w>U^5;-«. ^ No. 213. 3 reading t<Jl/J for ^\jJ. * reading O^IL^ for Uli**..
^ 1706 a.d. ® reading aJJIj^jp for ,_^».jJlju.ft.