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ABC (NOTES)
I The tribes and persons described in this and the following eight para-
graphs are all known as Mahass at present. It will be seen that the author considers them to be all originally Himyaritic Arabs from southern Arabia, Ansar of the tribe of Khazrag. One or two of the earlier names given in the tree occur in Wiistenfeld, i6 and 22, but there is no consistent co-
incidence between the pedigree as given in ABC and that given by Wiistenfeld.
II Cp. D 3, 141 and note thereto for Sheikh Idris and "el 'Ayl Fung" {i.e. el 'Aylafun).
For Hud see Hughes, pp. 181, 182. He is spoken of in Chapters 7, 11 and 26 of the Kuran, and was the prophet sent to the contumacious tribe
of 'Ad. There is no reason whatever to identify him with Kahtan.
III El Hag Idris, as being the ancestor of the Awlad Hadra (see Tree i),
is the author's progenitor. Of el Hag Idris's descendants the author says : "All the descendants of el Hag Muhammad are round Shanbat and, in some cases, near Sennar. Those of el Hag Sulayman are on Tuti Island,
including el Khalifa Muhammad ibn. . . , etc." {as in tree), "and others are round Shanbat, and others near Sennar: they form numerous tribes."
D 3 gives no life of el Hag Idris nor of any of his sons. IV Cp. D3, 154 and 19.
The date 1155 a.h. agrees with D 3. Either "1065A.H." or "loi years" is an error. V These are the Kardakab section of Mahass.
VI For the Budanab cp. D 7, cclix.
El Rakayba is generally known as "Hillet el Mahass" or "Mahass el Rakayba." For "Kamnin" in place of "Kamlin" see note to D 3, 109, and Vol. I, p. 341.
The descendants of Marzuk would normally be called "MarAzi'k." Sections of that name occur both among the Hamar and the Gawama'a of Kordofan and the Shai'kia.
VIII There is a section of Awlad 'Ukba called Sa'adullAb (see Mac- Michael, Tribes..., p. 175).
IX These Hammadullab are a section of Mesai^lam/a (see C 8, xvii and xxiii).
"The Atbara" is spelt in ABC j^^I^-j*^! j-a— jJI ("el Bahr el Atbarawi").
By "Sanhit" is meant the Setit. 'Abdulla Abu Sarah's more common name is 'Abdulla ibn Sa'ad. He made no expedition in 43 a.h. (663 A.D.). The campaign of 651-2 a.d. is no doubt meant.
For the final sentence cp. D i, Lxxi.