After the death of Sultan Barahaman his son Manamir was declared sultan. As Manamir was very young, his succession was considered illegal and an act of enmity directed against his uncle, Kuda. Kuda therefore "usurped the government and went to Simway, carrying with him the effects of the deceased sultan." Civil war ensued and the peace of the state was greatly disturbed. This war must have lasted more than thirty years, and its story is variously related by the Moros. The tarsila do not mention it at all. The best description was given by Captain Forest, who learned its details from the mouth of Pakir Mawlana, the chief person who conducted the campaign and terminated the struggle. Kuda invited a party of Sulus living in Magindanao to Simway to support him against his nephew. The Sulus came, but finding him with only a small force, they treacherously murdered him and plundered his camp and possessed themselves of many pieces of heavy cannon, which Kuda had transported from Magindanao to Simway. "The Sulus returned home with their booty, and Manamir's party got the ascendency." But the Sulus, conscious of their iniquity and fearful of resentment when peace should be restored, fomented trouble between Manamir and his brother Anwar, and supported the latter. The state was again divided against itself, and the second struggle proved worse than the first. Skirmishes were kept up and nightly attacks and assassinations were continued until both sides were very much weakened. Their enmity grew bitter and Malinug, the son of Anwar, killed his uncle Manamir. Manamir was the rightful sultan, and on account of his assassination he has ever since been called Sahid Mupat, which means "died a martyr." Pakir Mawlana and Pakaru-d-Din, the sons of Sahid Mupat, were obliged to leave Magindanao, and retired to Tamontaka. "The country then suffered much. The great palace at the town was first plundered and then burned. In the conflagration many of the houses of Magindanao were destroyed, as was also a great part of the town of Slangan. The groves of cocoanut trees were also mostly destroyed, as being convenient and at hand to make palisades for temporary forts." In the meantime Sultan Anwar died at Batwa and has ever since been referred to as Mupat Batwa, which means "died in Batwa." Malinug assumed the sultanate after his father's death and kept up the fight. "After a tedious, desultory war, Malinug fled up the Pulangi to Bwayan. Pakir Mawlana then got possession of all the lands about Magindanao, and peace was made soon after. Malinug died a natural death, and some time later his two sons visited Pakir Mawlana."