Ibn Idris, according to Sayyid Ibrahim Al-Rashid, said of him: "If people knew what was in Al-Majzoub, they would leave all the righteous, near and far, and come to his door, due to his honor and status with God." Muhammad Al-Majzoub Al-Saghir returned to Sudan in the year 1881 AD and stayed in Suakin for a period of time, then headed to Ad-Damer where he died. He had no children. Therefore, Al-Tahir Al-Majzoub, who led the Majzoub to ally with the Mahdiya, feared him. He died in the early period of the Mahdiya. His son Muhammad Al-Majzoub and his relative Al-Majzoub Abu Bakr Othman Digana assisted in administering the East for the Mahdiya. The Majzoub stood with the Mahdiya and Othman Digana carried letters from the Mahdi addressed to a number of tribes and clans of eastern Sudan, their sheikhs, and to all the Majzoub, led by Sheikh Al-Tahir Al-Majzoub, who believed in the Mahdi and received his letters with acceptance and welcome, and showed joy and happiness at the Mahdi's writings to him. Thus, the Majzoubiyya Tariqa stood with the Ansar in one trench, and they raised the slogan of defending the Mahdist revolution in eastern Sudan. They led their fierce campaign against the opponents of the Mahdiya current. The Majzoub gave the Mahdiya immense strength, and they were its messengers and protectors in eastern Sudan. This stance arose from their old enmity with the Egyptian administration, and they had enmity with the Khatmiyya, feeling that they always received support and backing from the Egyptian authorities. They harbored hatred for the government and anyone who showed any kind of cooperation or loyalty to the government. It was not for a man like Othman Digana and all members of his family, known as the Diganay family, to be pleased with a government that led him to bankruptcy. Othman Digana and his brothers Omar and Ali were subjected to imprisonment, confiscation of their property, and liquidation of their businesses, accused of engaging in the slave trade, which brought them enormous profits. Othman Digana was arrested in the year 1882 near Sheikh Bargoot with a number of slaves confiscated for the Arabian Peninsula. This incident festered in the hearts of the members of this family, who harbored hatred and animosity towards the government until the Mahdist revolution erupted, which included a large number of people who had suffered personal injustices due to the oppression and tyranny of the former Turkish government. However, Othman Digana was a firm believer in the Mahdiya and did not cooperate with it merely out of hatred for the Turks.