268 THE XATI\T .MANUSCRIPTS IV. d3.

and was a contemporar\- of Sheikhs Hammad el Samih and Hammad ibn el Turabi^.. . .His pupils were ver\' numerous and included thtfeki 'Abd e! Dafa'i-.. . .He died aged between 40 and 50 and was buried at Shanbat.

241 . ^" ' SuGHATERUN,' i.e. Sidi Muhammad ibn Serhan el 'L'di." " His mother was Fatima bint Gabir ibn 'On ibn Selim ibn Rubat ibn Ghulamulla, nor has such fruit been bom save from such a tree.

He was called 'Sughayerun' because his mother's relatives, the AwLAD Gaber, used to call him ^luhammad el Sughayer ['the

Small,' or 'the Lesser'], and this was per\-erted into ' Sughayeriin.' He was bom, God have mercy on him, on Tarnag Island in the SnAiKiA country, and was, God bless him, one of those who united

learning and Sufiism. He excelled in learning under his mother's brother Sheikh Isma'il ibn Gabir, who gave him leave to teach. Then he transferred himself to Sheikh Muhammad el Banufari

and studied a certain amount of law [Khalil] with him, and Mu-

hammad said that it benefited one's teaching. And God blessed him and he sat in the seat of his mother's brothers after them. He was one of the most ascetic of sages, one of the greatest of saints, and, in Sufiism, the lover of Sheikh Idris ibn el Arbab. The reason

of his coming to Dar el Abwab [' Land of the Gates *] was that the sons - of his father's brother were at \-iolent enmit\' with him because

he usurped their greatness and followed his mother's relatives in learning and piety. So they incited Zimrawi the king of the Shatkia against hun and bid him slay him. Then [Zimrawi] mounted his horse and came to him [Sughayeriin] while he was in the mosque, and found

his mother, the daughter of Gabir, with him; and she said 'O Zimrawi, you have come to kill Muhammad'; and they lowered him from his horse in a fainting condition and he began [to groan] saving

' Hak! Hak! The cattle of el Hag Muhammad have butted me.' Then they came to [Sughayeriin] and interceded with him for [Zimrawi],

and he replied ' This thing is not my doing but that of my mother's brothers^.' Then he put a spell upon him and he recovered. And

[Zimrawi] said to him ' I bestow upon you four sdkias, each of them 40 'uds of the length of a spear [in breadth], and four brood mares and four head [of slaves].' But [Sughayeriin] repUed 'It would be impious for me to receive anything from you or to live in your

country.' Again, it is said that King Badi Abu Rubat, who was Master of

the Household [Sid Kum\ to King 'Adlan walad Aya, put his trust in [Sughayeriin] ; and when King 'Adlan, after kilHng Sheikh 'Agib

^ Xo. 125. - No. 4. ^ Tree i.

* reading i'^jt for "^'^l. ' reading ^Jl^^^i for ^ Jl^».l.