Muhammad Ali Pasha entrusted his son-in-law, Muhammad Bey, the Daftardar, the conquest of Kordofan, and that country belonged to the Sultan of Darfur, so while Ismael Pasha was crawling on Sennar, the Army of Defterdar marched to its destination on the road to Dongola and Abu Qas, and the journey to Kordofan was deadly arduous for the soldiers because they walked seven consecutive days cutting the Fiaví In a desert that has no water and no planting.