# Ibrahim — The Four Feathers character guide

> Ibrahim in The Four Feathers by A. E. W. Mason.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Trench Ibrahim

**First appearance:** 0012-x-the-wells-of-obak

## Snapshot

A boy servant in the Sudan who fetches tamarinds and roots, brews cooling draughts, and helps Feversham nurse Trench through thirteen days of typhus in the zeriba.

## Who they are

Ibrahim attaches himself to Feversham's fortunes inside the House of Stone, running errands, buying food, and helping move the feverish Trench from shade to shade as the sun crosses the prison yard. He is practical and unsentimental—on the seventh day he pronounces that Trench will die—yet he stays, and even begins to hope. His small, steady presence embodies the texture of Feversham's ordeal and the human bonds that form in captivity.

## In the story

### [The House of Stone](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/xxvii-the-house-of-stone)

Trench's loyal companion in prison, a tall Hadendoa Arab. He helps Trench survive and protects Feversham when the prison door opens.

### [XXVIII: Plans of Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/xxviii-plans-of-escape)

Mentioned as helping Trench fight in front of Feversham during his delirium.

### [XXIX: Colonel Trench Assumes a Knowledge of Chemistry](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_four_feathers_se/chapters/xxix-colonel-trench-assumes-a-knowledge-of-chemistry)

Assists in nursing Trench, provides remedies, and offers grim prognosis.

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