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el Walid ibn Hashim in Spain [el Andalus] and slain him. Sulayman therefore fled from Abyssinia to the Sudan and settled there and married the daughter of one of the kings of the Sudan. By her he had two sons, the one named Daud and the other Ans. Then [Sulayman] died, and the names [of his sons] got altered, and Daud was called Oudun, and Ans was called Ouns. Ouns was ancestor of the OuNSAB, and Daud of the Oudunab. These [descendants of Sulayman] multiplied among the blacks and finally they became fused with them in every respect, and their power flourished and they became those rulers of the Sudan who are known from history. The

first king of this stock in Sennar was the Sultan 'Omara, and the power passed from Sultan to Sultan till the time of the Sultan Badi whose rule ended with the Turkish conquest of Sennar in the Sudan. Ends. This is what we have found.

XXXI As regards Fezara, their pedigree is well known: they are a

tribe of Beni Tami'm, who settled in the Sudan.

XXXII The Beni 'Amir are the family of 'Amir and occupied Abyssinia and are its rulers.

XXXIII Ken ANA are a great and famous tribe in the Sudan and are

the family of Dekaym el Kenani, an important^ and unblemished family: they dwell in the same parts of the country as Fezara.

XXXIV The Gabiria are numerous in Abyssinia; [but] most of them [are] between the Mahass and the well-known [town of] Dongola. They are the family of Gabir son of 'Abdulla el Ansari. When Dongola was occupied, at the time of its siege, the majority

of them assisted the armies of the Muslims in the expedition of 'Amr ibn el 'Asi (God bless him).

XXXV Rufa'a were settled at the first among the Bega: then They are [one] of the tribes of Kutaf.

XXXVI The Gabarta^ are by origin Arabs. XXXVII Fellata are the children of 'Ukba; and the writers of genealogies relate that the sheikh who was in Upper Egypt [Ard

el Sa'td] and known as el Sheikh Mugelli was one of them^. Their pedigree goes back to 'Abd el Rahman son of Abu Bukr el Sadik (God bless him).

XXXVIII The Hadarba are a well-known tribe. El Samarkandi says

" I heard from el Sheikh 'Abdulla ibn el Wuzi'r el Hadrami that they declare they [came] originally from Hadramaut and migrated inland

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