Ḥayāt al-Dīn b. Saʿīd - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Shaykh Ḥayāt al-Dīn b. Saʿīd al-Dīn b. Saʿīd (1840-1901), commonly known as Hayatu Balda, was the leader of the Mahdiyya (a millenarian Ṣūfī order following a leader whom his followers recognised as the Mahdī, the figure whose appearance heralded the imminent end of the world) in the western Sudan. He was appointed ʿamil (deputy, from Ar. ʿāmil , lit., agent) in El-Obeid in about 1882 by Muhammad Ahmad (d. 1885), a leader of the Sammāniyya Ṣūfī order in Sudan who, on 29 June 1881, proclaimed himself the