Luís was tasked with delivering an ambassador to the Christian Emperor of Ethiopia and hunting hostile Muslim trade ships sailing between the Indian Ocean and Jeddah.

After claiming that the property of a Portuguese merchant who had died in al-Shiḥr had been unlawfully seized by the Kathīrī sultan, Dom Luís ordered the assault of the city.

[6] The city's defenders attempted to face them on the beaches, but they were routed and the emir Mutran b. Mansur was killed in battle with a bullet.

[1] About 480 residents of the city of Al-Shehr were killed in the battle, in addition to the killing of seven resistance leaders in the city of Al-Sheher:[7][8] In addition to: Ahmed bin Abdullah Belhaj ba-Fadl,[8] whose family at the time requested that he be buried next to his father in the Dome of Belhaj ba-Fadl.

The visits include: popular dances such as the Baraa and the Iddah, the gathering of visitors, the selling of sweets, etc.