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excepting only two men, the successor [Khalifa] of Sheikh Idri's and the successor of Sheikh Sughayerun.

El Sha'arawi says that such superiority, namely [that shown by] his not rising up, has not occurred among any [other] sheikhs, not

even in the case of Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir, for the latter, if the 'Abbasid Khalifa came to see him, used to rise up. [The only ex-

ception is furnished by] Sheikh Muhammad el Hanafi el Shadhali in Egypt, who used not to rise up for any one, neither for Pashas nor

for Sanjaks.". , . (2) It is related that a sandbank formed off Tuti Island and greatly impeded the working of the water-wheels of the Mahass. The latter ap-

pealed to Khogali, pointing out that they would have to migrate elsewhere, since they were shut off from the water at low Nile ; so Khogali mounted his donkey and went to the bank and dipped his staff in the river and said

"In the name of God the Compassionate and Merciful! O Sheikh Ahmad ibn el Nasiri!" — and the sandbank disappeared: "and this miracle has lasted until our own day, this year of 1219^. Now his

staff was of iron." He was, in addition, a great healer of the sick. " I and the King of Death," said he, on one occasion, "have contended together for the life of the daughter of 'Ebayd, and he has left her to me.". . .

His final exploit is related thus: "When the Sultan Bukr, Sultan of [the] KuNGARA, heard of some abusive remarks of King Badi he swore that he would enter Sennar, and tear up its trees, and dam its river [so that] cavalry might ride over its bed. Then he made his preparations and set forth till he reached the outskirts of the country on the east side; and he was at el Mefaza when he saw Sheikh Khogali ; and the Sheikh had in his hand a staff and rapped him with

it on the finger-tips^. And his hand swelled up and became paralysed

[///. 'died'], and this was the cause of his death, for the Sultan of the Fung had besought the mediation of Sheikh Khogali, and said to

him 'The Sultan of [the] Fur is coming against us.' — Then the Sultan

Bukr, the Sultan of [the] Kungara, enquired of the river folk saying

* There came to me a dark man wearing a green robe and rapped me with a staff,' and described him to themi as he had seen him ; and they repHed 'That was Sheikh KhogaU.'". . . Elsewhere we find the following:

" As regards his original faith, the foundation thereof was Kadirism, but in his methods of daily readings of the Kuran [azcrdd] and in his

rules of personal conduct he was a Shadhali, and indeed his ' Sheikh ' was a pupil of Sheikh Muhammad el Nasir the ShadhaU.". . .We

^ 1805 A.d. ^ reading di^U»l for a.£-'^^\.