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210. "Mustafa el Sherif, el Moghrabi el Susi." "He embraced Sufiism and followed Sheikh Muhammad^ ibn

el Terayfi.". . .He was buried west of Aslang Island.

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211. 2"Nabray ibn el feki 'Abd el Hadi ibn el Sheikh Muhammad^ walad Dolib. . . ."

He was born at el Halfaya and educated by the feki Dafa'alla, and by the feki DayfuUa*, and by his father's brother the feki Sughayerun in Don- gola.. . .He was buried at el Halfaya.

212. " Na'im "Abd EL SHERAKA'ibnelHag,elGa'ahelNawami." He was born at el Kerrada and buried near el Hilalia.. . ."He was

called ' 'Abd el Sheraka ' [' Serv^ant of the Partnership '] because he divided his year into two halves: during one half he would serve

Sheikh Idris^, and during the other he would serve Sheikh Abu

Idris'^."

213. "Na'im el Bathani." He was the disciple [hozcdr] of Sheikh Idris'.. . ."His tomb is in the desert in front of Walad Abu Delayk."

214. ^"NaNNA IBN EL TURABI." He was the brother of Sheikh Hammad^ el Nahlan.

215. "Now AW IBN EL Sheikh Dow el Bayt^'^" (d. 1176^^ a. h.). He was a Shafa'ite. . . . His son the feki Muhammad, a follower of Sheikh Khogali^-, was taught by 'Abd el Rahman^^ walad Belal and died in 1171^*, in his father's lifetime, and was succeeded by his son the feki el Tahir.

216. ^^"NuR EL Din Abu Shimla ibn el Sheikh Muhammad^^

el Hamim."

He was brother of Sheikh 'AH el NiF'^.. . .Their father migrated from Rufa'a to Mundara, and it was there his sons were buried.. . .It is related that Sheikh 'Ali sent his sons to the country south of Mundara, to fetch wood from the country of the dolayb palms, for re-roofing his mosques, and gave them twenty-four camels for the purpose. The party, however, met some elephants which frightened the camels by their trumpeting so that they bolted. The sons accordingly returned and reported to Sheikh

'Ali, who was about to borrow other camels when Nur el Din said "'I swear by Sheikh Tag el Dm el Bahari the animals that caused our beasts to bolt shall bring [the wood] in their place.' Then he addressed an assistant of his father named Abu Sa'ad and said to

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