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" Was a pupil of" is ^JLc wjLLJCJ! iii*. ; "a follower of. . ." is JUL- jJLft JljjJaJt (see note to viii, supra).
124. A story of this man is in No. 1 1, q.v.
The Arabic of this biography down to "...by origin" is given in Appendix 20.
Abu Nagila: cp. No. 115.
By " Walad Kishayb" I think No. 208 is meant: note that the latter's ancestor settled on the White Nile and that Kadal "el Wali" (No. 147), whose daughter (?) "Walad Kishayb" married, was born on the White Nile. No. 208, in his biography, is called a Mesallamabi, and "Walad Kishayb" is here called a Mesallami.
For "a daughter of Walad Kaddl" I think "a daughter of Kadal" should probably be read: see note to No. 125 on this superfluous *' walad" or ''wad." If the mother of Mariam was a grand-daughter of Kadal chronological difficulties arise owing to the excessive number of genera-
tions between 'Abudi and No. 124 (see Tree 11). " Visited" is the technical term: see note to No. 2. This No. 124 was probably (see note to No. 1 1) the founder of Omdur- man: his kubba is to the south of Khartoum and is called "Wad Um Mariam" (" Wad Um" being equal to '' ibn" a curious periphrasis). His descendants are called the Mariumab, "Marium" being a colloquial cor-
ruption of "Mariam": similarly ''harum" is a corruption of ''harim" ("women") in some parts of the Sudan.
For No. 1 24's pedigree and nickname see ABC, LV. He was a descendant of No. 255.
125. ''He was known..." is ^__)ljJ1 ^Lj jc_j_i_c(-Ji: this must be wrong, and as he is always known as "Wad el Turabi," and as his brother Nanna (No. 214) is called "ibn el Turabi" I have read ^U for ^jb. As a matter of fact he was not "son of el Turabi" at all but "el Turabi" himself, if his own descendants are to be trusted, and they are very positive.
It is true that this colloquial "zoad" does sometimes creep in where it has no place, and this has happened, I think, in No. 124 (q.v. note). Hammad
was called "el Turabi," it is said, because when at Mekka he was asked "What is your race?" and replied "Turabi"; and again when asked "Whence come you ?" he replied "Min el turab" (note, " turdb" means "earth" or "soil" and his reply was therefore, as it were, "I am of the earth, earthy"). As a matter of fact, however, "Abu Turab" was the sobriquet of the Imam 'Ali, whose veterans used the war-cry of
("Paradise, paradise for the Turab!a"),aud it is very likely that "el Turabi" means no more than "the followers of 'Ali": see Mas'udi (ed. B. de M.), vol. V, Chaps. 87 and 94 (pp. 80, 217, 261). There is no evidence of any connection with the Turabiin who live north of Nekhl in the Sinai Penin- sula.
His kubba is a few miles north-west of el Kamlin and is much in vogue at the present day.
His descendants declare his father's name was 'Abd el Rahman, and