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Chapter Nine: The Loads (w) - Ahl Bitar, also called Ahl Bibi, and their chief is Ma'adi bin Omar Bibi bin Musa, and they number 208 souls. (z) - Ahl Al-Hajj Abd al-Rahman, who are "Awlad Musa al-Kahl" and their chief is Abdullah bin Al-Imam bin Abdullah bin Al-Amin bin Al-Nabihah.. bin Abd al-Rahman bin Musa, and they number 59 souls. (h) - Ahl Al-Wali, who are attributed to the Futi origin, and their Sharif Idrisid ancestor is Ahmad Al-Amin Al-Sidi, who arrived in Lao (Al-Duwayzah) in the middle of the eighteenth century, and finally settled with [Ivlan] Ibralis, and became one of them, and died in an atmosphere of sanctity, and was buried in Turuwudi Jamza around 1836. He left three sons, the first of whom was Muhammad Al-Amin, who came to practice teaching for some time among the Aqall, and left a family among them, then his brother Talib Said followed him, who also settled among them, where all his descendants are here. As for the last brother, Cherno Al-Amin, he remained with the Futin, and his descendants today are among the Takarir Muslims in Saballah (Kinkey); Muhammad Al-Amin returned to Al-Asabah, where we find a section of his offspring named Ahl Al-Wali in Imbud, and in Tahkant Wad'aysh, and in Takanat with Idaysat, and the branch here numbers 69 souls, and their leader is Muhammad Al-Amin bin Sidna bin Alfaghah (born around 1865), son of Talib Said. 7 - Religious Life These Fulani communities mostly belong to the Tijaniyya of Sharif [Sheikh] Hamahullah, and some of them are Qadiriyya Fadhiliyya, such as the chief of Ahl Al-Wali, who received the wird from his paternal uncle, Sheikh Al-Baksi bin Sidi Abdullah bin Talib Said, a great righteous man, who affiliated himself to that order through [Sheikh] Sidiya [the Great] during a journey in Mauritania. The tombs they prefer to visit are - in addition to the tombs of their ancestors previously mentioned - the tomb of Sheikh Sidi Muhammad Al-Sharif Al-Tijani, located in Al-Buro, and the tombs of [Sheikh] Muhammad Fadhil and [Sheikh] Al-Turad for the Qadiriyya. The prominent figures among them are, among Ahl Buwayh: (1) Butayh bin Ahmad bin Al-Sheikh, born around 1872, who is an Imam of Fiqh and a teacher of a school with 15 students, and he is Tijani through the lineage of Ahl Jad (Aqall) of Keveh. (2) Muhammad Al-Hadi bin Aliib Talib, who died after reaching one hundred years of age in January 1917, and received the Qadiri wird from Sheikh Muhammad Fadhil himself. He was the official judge of Awlad Ahmad, and he also enjoyed great influence among them. Our direction takes a very reserved stance. He forced himself in his old age to close his Quranic school, and due to his depth in Fiqh, he continued to give lessons in it to five or six young men.