On the difficulties to gather information regarding Kasalā as ʿUthmān Diqna cannot find someone whom he trusts who can sagely enter the town; some of the leaders of Sawākin spending some of the autumn in Sinkāt (Awkāk) to escape the heat in Sawākin; the riparian lands have received water and can be cultivated, but no rain has yet fallen on the fields in the open country.
- This text has been edited in Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Abū Salīm, Muḥarrarāt ʿUthmān Diqna, Khartoum, Markaz Abū Salīm li-l-dirāsāt, 2004. See letter 401
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