Muhammad al-Nur ibn Dayf Allah

Muhammad al-Nur ibn Dayf Allah was born in 1139 AH, that is 1726 or 1727, in Halfayat al-Muluk, north of present-day Khartoum, into a Ja'ali family of jurists: his grandfather was the first to teach law at the local mosque, and his father, a judge and Sufi, had glossed a Maliki law manual. A Maliki himself, he was appointed judge under the regent Nasir wad al-Amin, who dismissed him after a doctrinal dispute, and the Abdallab sheikhs consulted him on land ownership. He died in Halfaya in 1809 or 1810.

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