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Praise be to God, who has brought us from the village of Jaltur and Al-Dabba and Um Ba'utha, his well-known wife, and found her as described, as determined by the late Al-Alak Khamis Arafat, with no one opposing him or disputing him among the people of the kingdom, especially the providers of sustenance, to dispose of it in any way he wished, whether for the sake of God Almighty, seeking reward in the abode of return, and respected, protected from disagreement and oppression, whether by the commoner or the elite. And what led to his departure and the taking of his companion and his two sons and the children in the campaign, and in the month of Rajab, the third, it was said to Sheikh Majd Kar that a great incident occurred between him and Sultan Majd Fadar, and its cause was that the enemies of Sheikh Majd Kar, the scholar, sowed discord and slander between him and the Sultan, and told the Sultan that the scholar wanted to usurp the kingdom, and wanted to rule it in the name of his brother, Awad Allah. So the Sultan and his group tried to arrest him, but it was not possible for them. The scholar withdrew with his group to the house of some brothers who were sheltering him from the Sultan's house. The Sultan sent to him. When the Sultan and his group found no way to arrest him and he refused them, they cut off his water. So for three days he drew water from the wadi. Then, when his group became thirsty, they said to him, "We have