IV. All. XXVIII. OF THE SUDAN ,29
XIII From Samayra four [tribes] are descended, the Ghodiat^ the KuNAN, the KusAs and the Batahin.
XIV In the book of el Bahrani the Great [it is said] that their ancestor was nicknamed Abtah [after] a wddi of that name in the highlands of Mekka, and the nickname passed to his descendants and they were known as the Batahin.
XV Mismar had four sons, Sa'ad el Fend, and the three sons by a single [other] mother, Subuh Abu Merkha and Rubat and Nebi'h.
XVI Abu Merkha had three sons, Hammad el Akrat (ancestor of the Magidia and the Kurt an), and Hamayd el Nawam (ancestor
of the Sandidab^ and the Mansurab'^), and Hamaydan.
XVII [Hamaydan] had eight sons, Ghanim and Shaik (whose
mother was Hamama the daughter of his father's brother Rubat), and Hasabulla (el Hasabullawiyyun) and Mutraf (whose mother was the daughter of Hashi el Kumr el Fungawi), and Ghanim and
Ghanum and Gami'a (el Gimi'ab) and Malik el Zayn, all four full brothers,
XVIII Ghanim had three sons, Diab and Duab and Gamii'a (the Gamu'ia). XIX Diab had two sons, Bishara and Nasir. XX Bishara was ancestor of the Mirafab and the Zaydab and the
'Abdrahmanab and the Fadlab and the Rubatab and the Serayhab and the rest of the well-known descendants of Bishara who live from
Berber to el Zora.
XXI The descendants of Nasir are the Nasirab.
XXII Duab had two sons, 'Arman and Abu Khamsin. XXIII 'Arman was ancestor of a tribe called the KamOs. XXIV 'Arman had thirteen sons, Gebel and Gabr and 'Abd el 'Ali and 'Adlan and Zayd and Mukabir and Sha'a el Din and Sa'id and Nasrulla and 'Abd Rabbihi and Musallam and Shabbu and Bubai.
XXV Abu Khamsin had two sons, Muhammad and Hammad el Bahkur.
XXVI Muhammad was ancestor of the Hammadab and the Awrika^, the people of el Gerayf, and the Kerriab, and the BELfAB, and the Kitiab.
XXVII Hammad el Bahkur begot the Wagayab, the people of Adam walad Farag.
XXVIII It is said — and God knows the truth — that the Awrika are descendants of el Bahkur, as also the Hurayrab and the Hugac;
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