242 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.ds.

my son Hammad^'; and to Dafa'alla walad el Shafa'i^ he said 'You were taught by Sheikh 'Abdulla^.'"

120. "Hammad ibn Hamaydan, el Ga'ali." A pupil of Sheikh Dafa'alla^ He taught at el Halfaya, and among those whom he instructed were "my grandfather [gid] the feki Muhammad ibn el feki DayfuUa^, and the feki Idris ibn el Izayrik."

121. '5 "Hammad ibn Hasan 'Abu Halima' ibn el feki^, el

Rikabi."

A friend of Sheikh Idris ^ and a pupil of Sheikh Muhammad ^ ibn 'fsa Sowar el Dhabab.. . .He was held in great respect by Sheikh 'Agib the Great.

122. ^""Hammad ibn el Sheikh Idris i^" He succeeded his father as Khalifa.

123. "Hammad ibn el Magdhub^^" q^ 1105^^ a.h.; d. 1190^'*). He was a pupil of the feki Hammad ^^ ibn 'Abd el Magid and a follower of Sheikh 'Ali el Dirawi, the disciple of Sidi Ahmad ibn el Nasir el Shadhali.. . .He died, aged 85, in 1190, and his tomb is at el Damer.. . .He performed the pilgrimage He had a son, Ahmad, born in 1159^^ a.h.

124. ""Hammad ibn Muhammad ibn 'Ali, el Mashaykhi" (b.ios5i8;d. 11421^).

" He was commonly known as Hammad ' ibn Mariam,' his mother being Mariam. The latter 's mother was a Mahassia Mashayrifia, a daughter of Walad Kadapo 'el Wali'; and her father was Walad Kishayb^i, one of the holy-men [awliyd] of Abu Nagila whose tombs are visited, a Mesallami by origin."

Hammad was born on Tuti Island in 1055- A.H.. . .He was a pupil of the/e/:/ Arbab -^ Khashan, but quarrelled with him. ... He died in 1 142 ^^ a.h. aged 87.... His sons were Muhammad el Nur, Muhammad el Makbul and Muhammad el Shafih.. . .

There are some five pages of anecdote, praise and poetry on this man.

"El Sayyid walad Dolib said of him

{I.e. "I can compare him to no one but 'Omar ibn el Khattab.")

125. 2^ "Hammad el Nahlan ibn Muhammad, el Bedayri" (d. IIl626 A.H.).

^ No. 119.

2 No. 83.

3 No. 34.

* No. 84.

5 No. 88. 6 Tree i.

' No. 149.

8 No. 141. 9 No. 191.

10 Tree 4.

11 No. 141.

^'^ reading wJ^Jka^t for w>jjk.s»^l.

13 1693 a.d.

1* 1776 a.d."

1^ No. 114.

1^ 1746 a.d.

" Tree 11.

^8 1646 a.d.

1^ 1730 a.d.

20 No. 147.

21 No. 208 ? 22 1646 a.d.

23 No. 65.

24 1730 a.d. 25

Tree 9. 28 1704 a.d.