The minds with the biography of the lands of the Arabs and Sudan, and God is the one who grants success, as it is spread with the veil of acceptance, and its certainty is like the envy of a slanderer who attacks what is said within it. And how many a faultfinder has a correct saying, but his sick mind distorts it. As for me, even though I have acquired it, refined it, and cast it in the most beautiful mold, I do not say that it is free from adornments and devoid of slips. For I am but a human being, prone to oversight, slips, and forgetfulness. But I do not expect a deceiver who views it with an envious eye and exposes its flaws to everyone. May God bless the one who sees a slip and conceals it, and witnesses a flaw and covers it up. The most guided eye is the one that sees the flaws in one who has no faults. And with God I seek success on the path, and He is sufficient for me, and the best disposer of affairs, the best Master, and the best Helper. The Introduction, and it contains three chapters. The First Chapter: The motive that prompted my journey to the lands of Sudan, may God have mercy on him and be pleased with him. It is that my grandfather was one of the great men of Tunis, and an agent on behalf of the Sultan of the Maghreb, the Master Kamil al-Mulk al-Muzaffar al-Adil al-Mahrum al-Sharif Muhammad al-Hasani. Thus, he accumulated a great deal of wealth, to the point that he became one of its richest men.