104 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.A2.xxiii.

XXIII The above is what I have found. Now the 'Abbasiyyun

held the power at Isbah'an because they were of the family of Hashim, and the Beni Ommayya took it from them, and the 'Abbasiyyun were impotent until the time of Muhammad Abu 'Abdulla el Saffah. He then wrested the power from the Beni Ommayya, and took it for himself, and slew them there with great slaughter till he had taken their place in the land and put an end to them.

XXIV The KLawahla are descended from el Zubayr ibn el 'Awrwam, and their mother was Safia ; and according to el Samarkandi they are

the family of Kahil son of 'Amir son of Khalifa Ibayrak son of Muhammad son of Sulayman son of Khalid son of el Walid.

XXV The Shukri'a are a great tribe, renowned for their bravery. They are descended from Shukr son of Idris, and their genealogies

are traced to 'Abdulla el Gawad son of Ga'afir son of Abu Talib son

of 'Abd el Muttahb (surnamed 'Abd Menaf). XXVI Similarly the Hasania are [descended] from the family of

Ga'afir son of Abu Talib and are the children of Hasan son of Gamil, and their pedigree reaches to 'Abdulla el Gawad son of Ga'afir son of Abu Talib.

XXVII The RiKABiYYUN are the family of Rikab son of 'Abdulla and their genealogies are traced to el Sheikh Ahmad el Zila'i. XXVIII The pADNiA are the descendants of the noble el Sayyid Muhammad, son of el Imam 'Ali, known as "Ibn el Hanafia."

XXIX The Mesallamia are the family of Musallam son of Hegaz

son of 'Atif el Ommawi, [who] migrated from Syria [el Sham] in the days of 'Omar ibn 'Abd el 'Aziz (God bless him), and settled in the Sudan.

XXX The 'Amriyyun (spelt with 'amr . . . ) are the family of Sulayman son of 'Abd el Malik son of Marwan the Ommawi. It is said that they ruled the blacks in the Sudan and the country of the

Hamag, and finally [lit. "until"] they became assimilated to them in every respect and came to be known as "the Fung." The reason of their emigration [i.e. from Arabia] was thus: Sulayman fled to the

Sudan in the time of the Khali'fate of Abu 'Abdulla Muhammad

el Saffah, who was the first of the Beni 'Abbas to hold that position, and who wrested the power from Marwan, who is said to have been

the last of the Beni Ommayya dynasty. Abu 'Abdulla continued

laughtering the Beni Ommayya and subjecting them till he had taken their place throughout the country. So Sulayman fled to Abyssinia and settled there for a time. Then news reached him that

el Saffah had pursued [.''] the Beni Ommayya after their dispersion into [various] countries and had finally overtaken Muhammad ibn