Rise up, and he ate nothing from it. And he who witnessed it at the time of his accession informed me that when they brought him into the Sultan's house, he was wearing a shirt so worn out that his shoulders were bare. In his hand was a wooden rosary worth twenty silver pieces in Egypt. He was able to marry and have children, and that was only due to his poverty and lack of money to take a concubine or marry. He did not see women until he traveled to Kordofan with his brother, Sultan Muhammad Turab. He passed by a land called Al-Baq, and its king gave him a slave girl and her husband, named Abu Bassa. She bore him Sultan Muhammad Fadl. When the affair was settled for him, they seated him on the throne of kings, as previously mentioned, and pledged allegiance to him. The first to pledge allegiance to him was his elder brother, then Rifaa, then Tahir, then the first of the Sultans, so they pledged allegiance to him, then the Qadi and the general populace, then the Emirs. The drums of mourning were beaten, announcing the death of Sultan Turab, then they stopped for a while, and the drums of joy were beaten, announcing the accession of Sultan Abd al-Rahman. The custom of the kings of Fur was that when the Sultan acceded, he would remain for seven days in his house, not to be asked about judgment or command or anything, but to sit for congratulations and joy. The scholars, ministers, and dignitaries would visit him. When Sultan Abd al-Rahman took charge, he abolished that custom and, on the morning of his accession, he went out, surprising the ministers.