92 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. abc. lii.

and the Humr and the Messiri'a and the Rizaykat are descendants of his brother 'Atia. All of them are Guhayna by descent.

Similarly the Beni Helba, who are west of Darfur^ and are a great tribe, trace their descent to Guhayna. So also do the Beni Husayn and the Tergam and Khuzama and the Mahria (sic) and the Masalit

and the Korobat, who live west of Kebkabi'a.

LIII The Khawabir, who inhabit Wadai^ in the west, are in some cases merchants and in others nomads. They are Beni Ommayya, Kuraysh, by origin.

LIV Some of the descendants of the sons of Abu Bukr^ el Sadik who have immigrated to the Sudan.

They include the sons of Sheikh Muhammad el MugelH, who was

buried near Esna in the district of Zernikh, and who was a Sheri'f on his mother's side and a Bukri on his father's. With him was his brother Sheikh Ahmad surnamed "el Yomani." They came from the direction of el Yemen, from a village in Yemen called Bunda, to Egypt. Thence they went and settled in a village called Zernikh near Esna, [he] and his sons with him. Among these sons were Sheikh Muhammad "el Mutargam" ("the Interpreter"), and Sheikh Muhammad "el Royyan," and Sheikh Muhammad "el Gharkadi," and Sheikh Ya'akub. Sheikh Ya'akub proceeded to the Sudan in

lOOi^A.H. and betook himself to the king of the Fung, 'Omara Dunkas, at Sennar. The latter gave him an order [entitUng him] to reside at Halfayat el Muluk on the east bank of the Blue Nile, and he lived there for a number of years and died there, and was buried near the [village of the] Izayrikab, north of el Halfdya, and his tomb is still there.

LV Sheikh Ya'akub left four sons, Sheikh 'Ataalla, Sheikh Musa, Sheikh Muhammad Zamir, and Sheikh Hammad, Kadi of Bandi; and each of these four had numerous children, tribes.

The descendants of 'Ataalla live round BayU and are called the 'Atai'ab. The descendants of Sheikh Musa are numerous tribes, some round Sennar and some elsewhere, and they are called the Musi'ab. The descendants of Sheikh Muhammad Zamir are numerous tribes,

some at Halfayat el Muluk and some in the Ga'alin (sic) country, and they are called the Zamrab. The descendants of Sheikh Ya'akub, who is buried at [the village of] the Izayrikab, include Sheikh Hammad who is famous as "Um Amirium" (sic) whose kubba is at Khartoum North : the latter's [full] name was Sheikh Hammad ibn

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