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The Sultan's messenger arrived at the home of Al-Wāḥid al-Marāghdī, son of Karrār, son of Sharaksh, carrying a staff. May God grant him success. The messenger of the Sultan, al-Qāḍī, claimed that the Sultan's letter was addressed to al-Ashā ‘Alī bin ‘Abd al-Qādir bin Aḥmad. He said that the commander Ḥammām bin ‘Alī was there at that time. He came to buy grain for himself, so he fulfilled his need from it and sold it, and prepared to return to Nakt. He left Jī on the second day of Rabī‘ al-Thānī. On Monday, the tenth of Rabī‘ al-Awwal, the commander Mulūk of Jī Bakr arrested him with the agreement of all the tribes and imprisoned him. They claimed that he had violated their agreement on succession to the Pasha, although they had previously agreed with him on this and allied themselves with him. It was said that he was the one who sent him the news about this, and that they arrested Muḥammad bin Mu’min and ate what was in his house. His messenger reached him on the fourth day of the arrest, on the road towards al-Ḥajar. On the thirteenth of Dhu al-Ḥijjah, he died a martyr in the state and was buried. They agreed on the ... and it was a great event. ... and they rebelled and fought for the caliphate with Abū Bakr bin Ibrāhīm. and Karram, and Māti‘, and others of the servants of Jī who were in the western region, especially Abū Bakr. Our people from the merchants. The news reached the people of Jī. So the commander Mulūk of al-Ḥalla marched to fight him and appointed the two upper Qāḍīs, Muḥammad bin Dāḥ, and Sālim bin ‘Aṭiyyah, over them. Abū Bakr drove them away and they did not achieve anything from him, so they fled and left one of their tents abandoned in the port.

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