In the year ninety-eight and two hundred, a ruler named Makdoum, after fighting and battling the Zughananiyyin and the Fulani, and upon his return to the land of Karem, a flood descended upon him on the road, engulfing him and destroying him, by the grace of the Almighty. In the year ninety-eight and two hundred of the Hijra, his sons cut open his belly, removed his entrails, and filled it with honey, to avenge, they claimed, what he used to do to people in his life during his reign. May God Almighty make that a punishment for what he did to people in his life during his reign. His army encamped in Ba'anabi.

The most fortunate and guided was Al-As'ad Al-Arshad, son of Abu Bakr Al-Tudi, and it was said Al-Siltaki, from the great tribes of the sons of Ali. When this news reached him, he harbored the intention of the caliphate and many matters were undertaken for that. When he finished the agreement of that alliance, he headed towards him with those of his close associates who were with him. He attacked him in the aforementioned city on a Thursday night in the first Jumada of the aforementioned year. He was defeated and fled. His army stopped and he fled until he reached a village called Kamma, which is Sharab. He remained there until his army gathered around him. Then, on Monday, the fourteenth of the second Jumada, a fierce battle, a great fight, and a tremendous engagement took place between them, until they almost...