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Ga'afir ibn Kutaf of the tribe of Tai. They are famous for generosity.

LXIV The Fadnia are the descendants of el Sayyid Muhammad son

of the Imam 'Ali, God bless him, and there is much related of them.

LXV The sub-tribes of 'Adlan are seven, the Nafa'ab and the Nifi'ab^ and the Muhammadab and the 'Abudab and the Karakisa and the Yoiyab and the Shakai.u and the KuRup; and the dispute

[for the headship ?] is between three of them, viz. the Nafa'ab, the NiFf'AB, and the Karakisa; and it is related that six of these sub- tribes agreed to take the viziership from the Awlad Nimr, but the

Nafa'ab dissented and resisted this, because el Arbab Muhammad [was] their sister's son. So, when the treaty of Ga'al was concluded, they allotted to the Beni Nimr the rule of the East [bank] to be their

own, and [the Nafa'ab] joined the Nimrab instead of joining the six sub-tribes which" are collectively called the Sa'adab ; and the treaty was observed until the end of their rule.

{The following is added in pencil at the close.)

LXVI Serrar son of Kerdam son of Abu el Di's son of Kuda'a son of Harkan son of Masruk son of Ahmad son of Ibrahim Ga'al, an-

cestor of the tribe, son of Idris son of Kays son of Yemen son of

'Adi son of Kusas son of Kerab son of Hatil son of Yatil son of Dhu

el Kila'a son of Sa'ad son of el Fadl son of 'Abdulla son of el 'Abbas, uncle of the Prophet. . . , son of 'Abd el Muttalib son of Hashim.

^ reading w^buAJI for w^UuaJI , ^ reading ^JJI for ijiUl .