246 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV.D3.

133. "Hegazi." He was son of Abu Zayd^ ibn el Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir "He died

in the prison of Nasir, of hunger and thirst."

134. "HiLALI IBN EL ShEIKH MuHAMMAD^ IBN 'ISA SOVVAR EL DhAHAB."

His mother was the daughter of Mek Hasan walad Kashash, the malik

["king"] of Dongola.

"Hunayd" (see sub "el Gunayd").

135. 3 "Ibrahim ibn 'Abudi 'el Faradi.'" His mother was the sister of el Mesallami* and daughter of Abu Wanaysa.. . .He was taught first by el Mesallami, his " Sheikh," and then by Abd el Rahman^ walad Hammadtu.. . .

"He compiled the marginal commentary known as el Faradia

on the study of what is obligatory \el Farid] , and was nicknamed ' el Faradi ' because he was a great authority on obligation." . . . He married the daughter of his maternal uncle el Mesallami but subsequently divorced her.

136. ^"Ibrahim walad Barri." He was born at Nasri Island, and his mother was Umhani bint 'Ali walad Kandi'l, a holy-man of the Sowarda. ... He read law [KhaW] under Sheikh Sughayerun' and learnt what pertains to the sphere of

faith [^ilm el kaldm] from the feki Husayn Abu Sha'ar the disciple of Muhammad^ ibn 'Isa Sowar el Dhahab....He was the companion^, in Sufiism, of Sheikh Muhammad ^^ walad Daud.. . .He performed the pil-

grimage, and died, aged 120 years, in Sannat el Wada'a ("the year of tranquillity").

137. "Ibrahim ibn Nusr." "A learned man of Sennar, and its legal adviser [mufti]"... He was a pupil of el Kadal^^ walad el Faradi.

138. "Ibrahim el Sa'udi." He was a Shafa'ite, and the preacher [Khatib] of Sennar.

139. 12"lBRy^HIM IBN EL ShEIKH SuGHAYERUN^^." 140. "Ibrahim IBN Um Rabi'a." He was a Takagabi, born at Bahr el Asal, and a pupil of 'Abd el Rahman^* ibn Gabir.

141. ^^"Idris IBN Arbab." [The earlier part of this biography, the first given, is missing. The

first intelligible statements concerning Sheikh Idn's make mention of a

1 No. 53. 2 No. 191. ^ Tree 11. * No. 172. ^ No. 21. ^ Tree 3. ' No. 241. ^ No. 191. ^ reading w^s*-o for o.sa>.o. ^" No. 186. ^^ No. 147.

12 Tree i. " ^^ No. 241. ^* No. 17. i^ ^ree 4.