252 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV. d 3.

are also told the date of his death: "He died, God bless him, on the forenoon of Sunday the i8th of Gamad el Thani in the year fifty-

five^; and his son the feki Ahmad succeeded him by his father's direction, and was a pious ser\^ant [of God] and followed in his

father's footsteps in all purity of heart ; and the period of his holding

office [as Khalifa] was six years."

155. ^"KURNI IBN EL FEKI MUHAMMAD^ AbU SaBI'b IBN EL FEKI 'AlI IBN BaRRI."

He was a follower of el Hag 'Abdulla^ el Halanki.

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156. ^"LUKANI." The brother of the mother of Sheikh Hasan ^ ibn Hasuna and a pupil of Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman' ibn Gabir. He was one of the 40 disciples all of whom attained the rank of Kulb.

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157. ^"MaHMUD el 'ArAKI, 'RaGIL EL KUSAYER.'" "He was born on the White [Nile], and went for instruction to Egypt and was the pupil of el Nasir el Lukani and Shams el Din el Lukani; and he was the first to order the people to observe the period of probation [after divorce]. Before his time a woman could be divorced by her husband and married by another, all in one day

or on successive days. He settled on Gezirat el Huoi on the banks of the White Nile and built himself a mansion, which is now known as

Kusayer Mahmud.. . .

Now his coming was before that of the Awlad Gabir^: the latter studied under el Banufari, and el Banufari under 'Abd el Rahman

el Ag-huri, and Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman el Ag-huri was a follower of Shams el Din and Nasir el Din, the two Lukanis. His coming

was in the time of the Fung, and Sheikh Khogali ^^ said that from el Khartoum to el Is there were seventeen schools, all of which were

destroyed by Shilluk and Um Lahm.'\ . . He died and was buried at el Kusayer.

158. 11 "Malik ibn el Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman ^^ walad Ham-

MADTU."

He lived at el Zora, and built a mosque wherein law [Khalil] was

taught.. . .His son was 'Abd el Rahman, the father of the feki Karbawi and Malik.. . ."Among his pupils were the fekis Ahmad and 'Abdulla,

1 1743 A.D. 2 Tree 3. •'' No. 178. * No. 33. ^ Tree 5. * No. 132. '' No. 17. ^ Tree 7. 8 No. 17, etc. 10 No. 154. 11 Tree 10. ^^ No. 21.