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Cotton was brought in every day, fourteen rika and four arfa. The people of Darfur knew it as a piece, and the people of Egypt knew it. It was perhaps, if poured into it, five quarters of an Egyptian quarter. He sold it as such, and he sold a flock of sheep he had, and likewise he sold cows and a slave girl and a slave, and what he obtained from Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi and from the literature of Sheikh Muhammad Kara. He did not leave for the slave girl, whose eyes were white, named Farhana, and two slaves, and his two wives, and a donkey, and a weak donkey. He left me one of his wives named Zahra, and his brother's wife, and each of them had a daughter with her. He sold the grain silos, and only one silo remained for me. He gave the deed of endowment that the late Sultan Abd al-Rahman wrote for him when he endowed him with the aforementioned land, and half of it from His Majesty the Great Sultan, the ruler of the Arabs and the non-Arabs, the master of the necks of nations, the Sultan of the two lands and the two seas, the servant of the two holy sanctuaries, the one who trusts in the care of the Creator, the servant Sultan Abd al-Rahman al-Rashid. To the presence of kings, rulers, the East, the Rimalah, the sons of sultans, the collectors, and the people of the Sultan's state from the Arabs and the Sudanese. To proceed, the aforementioned Sultan, the victorious, triumphant, and aided one, has favored him and aided him with His help, and has given the scholar Sayyid al-Sharif Umar al-Tunisi a piece of land located in Abi al-Majdul.

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