When it was decided, in early 1889, to move camp from Handūb to Tūkar, after the last Mahdist attempt at seizing Sawākin in December 1888, Ḥamad Muḥammad Khayr entered an agreement with camel owners to rent some animals to help move some of their luggage, injured and the sick. Since they could not transport everything, ʿUthmān Diqna burned what they could not take with them. However, once they had arrived in Tūkar, they found themselves quite destitute and the treasury empty. Despite, ʿUthmān Diqna’s promise, they were not given any money to pay the camel owners, who have been harassing them for the past two months. He begs the Khalīfa to examine the matter.
Th Khalīfa instructs the delegates (umanāʾ) to examine the issue and take a decision accordingly.
12/08/1306
