[ 117 ] MANUSCRIPT A 5 Introduction This extract is said by the owner, el Hadi, to have been obtained some ten years ago by his uncle Rahma Muhammad. He does not know its origin. Probably it is, like A i, an extract from Sheikh el Bedowi's manuscript, and the variations may be due to the copyist.

Pedigree of the Ga'aliyyun. I I am el Hadi son of. . .{as in tree no details given).

TREE ILLUSTRATING MS. A 5 'Abd el Muttalib El 'Abbas 'Abdulla El Fadl Sa'ad 1 Dhu el Kild'a el Himyari 1 Serrdr Ydtil 1 r -Mismdr Hatil Sa'ad Kerab 1 1 Kahtan Kusds i • r ■ 'Adi 1 Makbud 1 'Ukasha Yemen 1 1 Iays Muhammad 1 Nusr el Dfn Idris 1 1 Hasan Ibrahfm 1 1 Hammad Ahmad 1 1 Rahma Masru Fadiijll» Harkdn 1 i' Rahma Budd'a 1 Muhammad Abu el Dfs 1 1 El Hdg Ahmad Kerdam 1 1 EI Hddi