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The following is from the second chapter: (Salih speaks)
"Now Sheikh Hammad el Samih, when he invaded Shendi,
killed the king of the Gamu'ia and more than 100 men, and ravaged the country and looted our slaves and our cattle and our sheep and camels.. . .Then I and my cousins went to ask for them back and he returned a part to us. . .and promised the remainder. And that night
I saw Sheikh 'Abd el Kadir sitting on a bed . . . and I said to him
* Hammad has looted my camels. . .etc.'" The following is from the third chapter :
"Sheikh Salih related that there came to him the divine message giving him leave to light the fire [of religion] after the death of
Sheikh Bedowi. Now this was in the year '18^, and in that same year el Samih attacked Shendi. His son, Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman 2, was born in the year '22 ^. And in those days the court gave him a share in the river-lands and the rain-lands; and he lit the fire [of religion] and lived honourably according to his obligations and the divine
laws and com^mandments ^ ; and there was no house, whether of a true believer or otherwise, over which he had not influence. And he divided the land granted him by the court among the people as though it had been a banquet. . . .
And he died in the year '67 ^ aged 75 . . . and his place was taken by his son Sheikh el Zayn, acting for Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman^ his brother, and [el Zayn] lit the fire like his father and executed all
that his father had done at all times and places [lit. ' both when in a state of presence and of absence '] . At the same time he never re-
laxed his reading of the Kuran, and especially [read it] during the
last third of the night'. He died in the year '89® aged 70, and his place was taken by his son Sheikh Ban el Nuka."
227. ^"Sanhuri ibn Madthir ibn Sanhuri ibn Hammuda^" ibn el Tankar."
228. " Selim, the holy-man [rdgil] of el Sayal. . . ." He was a Khalidi, and was much praised by Sheikh Hammad ibn el Turabi.. . .He died at el Sayal.
229. "Selman el 'Awadi" (d. 1121 a.h.^^). He was taught, as a child, by Sheikh 'Abd el Razik^'^, and when grown up by Sheikh Muhammad el Nukr^". ... He died in the same year as the feki
'Abd el Magidl^ viz. 1121 a.h.
1 1706 a.d. "^ No. 25. ^ 1710 a.d. * reading a5U_5JuU for ajU^Ju^ . ^ 1753 a.d. ^ No. 25. ' reading JJUt for JJI . « 1775 a.d. ^ Tree i. ^" No. 130. 11 1709 A.D. ^^ No. 27. ^^ No. 197.
1^ No. 10.