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at Karkog, moved with his army to Dongola province and reached Meshwa (?), the Fung deposed him and appointed Badi the Master
of the King's Household. Then [Badi] requested [Sughayerun] to accompany him to the south, and [Sughayerun] said ' I will join you,' and he proceeded after [the king] to the south with his mother and his
brethren and his wives and his children. And when he came to
el Derira the holy men [fukard] of the south and of the north dis-
puted among themselves, the former bidding him dwell in the south
and latter in the north ; and he said to them ' God decide the matter! ' And he took his ablution-jug and went into the desert and fore-
gathered with el Say\-id el Khidr, God bless him ; and el Sayyid told him 'Your dwelling-place shall be Koz el Mutrak, opposite the plain of Um Wizin.' And [Sughayerun] went thither and found it rough land and forest, so he went on to el Figayga and found it was an open
site clear of trees, and he said 'This is el Figayga [i.e. 'The Little Clearing'] where the brethren of Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman^ walad Hammadtu stop'; and this was why it was called 'el Figayga.' Then
Sheikh^ ibn Serhan sent to King Badi at Sennar and informed him of his arrival and requested him to grant him a site on the unoccupied
land^ to dwell in and a watering-place on the river. And the king sent for his henchman and said to him 'Give him all the land he
wants and mark the boundaries for him'; and [the Sheikh] replied
' Beyond a site of unoccupied land ^ and the watering-place for the holy men and a place for burial I want nothing': and this was characteristic of his self-restraint and asceticism in all earthly matters. Then the Sheikh, God bless him, built the mosque founded under the auspices of el Khidr, upon whom be the blessings of God ; and
it is said that with his own noble hand he set up^ the central pole
[that supports the roof], [at the foot of] which the Sheikhs give their lessons : and men flocked to him from every quarter and camels were heaped upon him galore, and he found favour in the eyes of all men.
Among his famous followers were Sheikh Dafa'alla*^ ibn el Sheikh Abu Idris, and the feki 'Abd el Hali'm" walad Bahr, and the sons of Barri (the feki 'Ali^ and el Hag Ibrahim^), and Tor el Matan
el Kahli el Berkani (who was buried in front of his tomb), and the
three sons of el Tankar (the feki Muhammad^'^ and Hammuda^^ and
Mazrii2),and Medani^^ el Haggar the son of el Hag 'Omar his brother, and Muhammad the son of el Hag Abu el Kasim his brother, a pious
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