88 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. abc. xxi.

1 6. The descendants of Fatah the Younger: " They include the 'omda of the Fitihab and the children of Sulaymdn ihn el Mek and of his brother Shibayli, and the Kusaysab, the sons of H amid ihn Kussa . . .,

etc." {as in tree).

17. Darddk: ''In Ddrfur, and among his desce?idants were Abo ibn 'Abdulla ibn Godafdt."

XXII All of the above are Kuraysh and descended from el 'Abbas ibn 'Abd el Muttalib ibn Hashim ; and all of them are the children of Ibrahim el Hashimi who was surnamed "Ga'al," and the first of their ancestors to come to the Sudan was named Ghanim, surnamed

"el 'Abbasi." He fled from Baghdad after the Tatar attacked it, in 676 A.H.^. Then they (sic) came to Egypt and found the Fatimites ruling there, but they were unable to settle down with them, so migrated to the Sudan and took up their abode, some on the Blue

Nile and some on the White and some in Darfur and Dar Wadai

(that is Borku), and spread in all directions.

XXIII Those that are in Darfur are represented by the royal family

only. The rest of the Darfurians are Kungara and Hilala, and such as are neither are all Feratit [i.e. Fertit].

XXIV As regards Borku, the royal family are 'Abbasia, that is Kuraysh. The rest are Arabs of Yemen, that is Himyar, descended

from Barik ibn 'Uday ibn Haritha ibn 'Amir ibn Haritha ibn Tha-

'aliba ibn Amra el Kays ibn Mazin ibn el Azd, who are [all of the tribe of] Ghassan.

XXV The tribes of MuDR ibn Nizar and Rabi'a ibn Nizar. All in the Wadi el 'Arab trace their descent to these tribes, and their pedi-

grees all meet in Kays ibn Ghaylan ibn Mudr and el Yds ibn Mudr.

Rabi'a, too, forms one stock with Mudr. The mother of el Yds ibn Mudr was el Rubab bint Sayda ibn Ma'ad ibn 'Adnan; and el Yds ibn Mudr had three sons, Mudraka and Tdbikha and 'Umayr, and their mother was Khindif, whose [real] name was Layla bint Halwdn ibn 'Omran ibn el Hafi ibn Kudd'a ibn Ma'ad ibn 'Adndn.

Therefore the posterity of el Yds ibn Mudr were called "Khindif," because she was their mother and to her they trace their descent.

From 'Adndn branch off all the tribes of the Arabs.

XXVI All of the descendants of Mudr ibn Nizdr who came to the Sudan are the children of Kays ibn Ghaylan ibn Mudr. They include

Guhayna ibn Ri'sh ibn. . .{as in Tree 4, to 'Adndn), and, secondly, Guhayna ibn 'Abdulla ibn Anas el Guhani, and thirdly, Guhayna of the tribe of Kuda'a, namely Guhayna ibn Zayd ibn. . .{as in tree, to 'Adndn), and, fourthly, Guhayna ibn 'Atia ibn Hasan ibn 'Abdulla 1 1277 a.d.