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MANUSCRIPT B 3

Introduction

This scanty extract was the prized possession of an old feki in Dar Hamar in Western Kordofan.

It bears a strong family likeness to B i .

I El Imam el Shafa'i says that the original stock of the Arabs was HiMYAR and Tai and Tha'aleb and Nigm and Gudham and Hamdan and Ma'aref and Bi'sar and Hukna and Kelb el Azd and Muzayna and GuHAYNA, — all of these tracing their descent to one ancestor, viz. Ibn el Mahays Kahtan son of el Mahays son of Ibrahim; and God knows the truth of this.

II Now as for the tribes of Guhayna^, taken separately: Guhayna^ begot Dhubian, and Dhubian begot ten sons, — viz.. . .{as in tree).

III Dabi'a begot the JPabi'at, and Dakaym the Dakimin, and Kirit the Kirat, and Ba'ashom. . .

B3 (NOTES)

I Cp. BA, L and B i, i and ii. II Cp. BA, Lix and B i, vi. III These four men had not been mentioned before. The copyist has omitted the paragraphs preceding this mention of them. From BA, xcvi, we

see that they were descendants of 'Omran son of Dhubian.

With "Ba'ashom" the nisba abruptly ends.

TREE ILLUSTRATING MS. B 3

Guhayna

I Dhubian II I I Watid Fahfd Shatir Bashir

I ( Shiikria Buddiria

Sultan ' Bddiria Muhammad Rafa'i Hammad \ el 'Ulati

Musallain Ga'afir Rashid Ruwah Hamil Rikab Ma'ashir

El Shibla Sufian Gudham Mahass 'Omran

) 'Atndrna

I Sabik ^ reading a ,jye»- for O-^v*?*-