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MANUSCRIPT A 4

Introduction

(See Introduction to A 3)

I In the name of God ....

The Prophet. . .said "Ye know from your pedigrees how ye are connected.

II The following is the pedigree which was transcribed by the feki Ahmad Muhammad from the pedigree of Sheikh Muhammad ibn

'Isa Sowar el Dhahab, [which latter came] from Mekka the Noble, for it was brought [thence] by Sheikh Kamil el Murshid the Bedayri^ ;

[and it] gives the pedigrees of the descendants of Ga'al.

III-XII Serrar had three sons. . .{for these and their descendants see the tree: no other details are given).

XIII Here ends the catalogue of the Ga'aliyyun. XIV Now Mismar and Samra and Samayra were the sons of Kerdam son of. . .{as in tree).

A 4 (NOTES)

I Cp. BA, III.

II For Muhammad ibn 'Isa see introduction to A3, and D 3, 191, Cp. A 3, XIII.

III-XII In the tree " Koday " and " Kodiat " have been altered to " Gho- day" and "Ghodiat" respectively,

^ reading ^^jjjuJ I forjjjuJI.

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