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the others who have been mentioned above, and their hearts were

fortified and their backs strengthened because of their knowledge of

the temerity and enterprise of Muhammad " Abu Rish " in all matters of difficulty. Now on the night agreed upon by the conspirators

'Adlan was being wed to the daughter of Walad Guma'a and was filled with happiness and joy, and there was with him a clever man

to whom news had come of the conspiracy, and this man quoted to him the following lines as a warning against being taken unawares . . .

(two lines of poetry follow : the author then recounts hov/ 'Adlan was none the less surprised and wounded, but got on his hoi'se and rode off with his son Muhammad, but fell dead at Sennar from his wounds). . .And when the conspirators received news of this they went thither [to

Sennar] and bore him into a compound that belonged to him and buried him there.

CLVI Then King Ranfi and Sheikh Kamtur and Muhammad walad Nasir all agreed to the appointment of Muhammad walad Ragab, and

he was made Sheikh, but the real power lay with Muhammad "Abu

Ri'sh."

CLVI I And the Mek Ranfi and Sheikh Kamtur and Walad Ragab ^

and Muhammad "Abu Rish" all remained at Sennar, but they were no longer of one mind, and, as God Almighty said, " You deem them to be together hut their hearts are far apart."

CLVIII And the month of Ramadan, in the middle of which 'Adlan had been slain, had not passed before they were at open enmity. The

Kamati'r {i.e. family of Kamtur) formed one party and the sons of Muhammad [walad Nasir "Abu Rish"] the other, and they came to blows . . . (the author gives details of the fighting : Muhammad walad Nasir and Muhammad walad Ragab were ranged against Kamtur; KamtQr proved victorious; Walad Ragab was imprisoned at Sennar; Walad Nasir

was wounded; and Kamtur's followers took to looting at Sennar. Then the 'Ulema tried to effect a reconciliation and Kamtur w^as persuaded to return the loot and release Muhammad walad Ragab, but Muhammad

walad Nasir "Abu Rish" refused the overtures and gave battle to Kamtur, late in 1218^, and drove him across the river). . . .

CLIX And when Walad Nasir had won the victory he entered

Sennar and put to death the feki el Amin walad el 'Asha, the vizier of his uncle Sheikh Idris.

CLX And the sheikhship was confirmed to his cousin Muhammad

walad Ragab in name, but in actual fact [Muhammad "Abu Rish"]

directed affairs entirely.

CLXI And [the latter] prepared to reside at Kassala, but when all was quiet again and the fighting had ceased, he entered Sennar and

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