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 pilgrimage, 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"lBRyHIM 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 ws*-o for o.sa>.o. " No. 186. No. 147.

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