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I Kahil was son of Musa (?) son of 'Abdulla son of Zubayr ibn

el 'Aw\vam, whose mother was Safi'a the daughter of 'Abd el Muttalib. There is no nobler pedigree among the Arabs but [that of] the Beni Hashim . . .

II Kahil the son of Musa (?) had thirteen sons, who are the ancestors of the Kawahla, Four of them were the sons of the daughter of his aunt, viz. Khalifa and Berak and Aswad and Budran; and four were

the sons of el Fungawia, viz. Nifayd and Yezid and Sa'id and Bishara; and four were the sons of the concubine, viz. Bagih and Hadi [and] Mudakin (?) and Khalbus; and one, viz. Hammad, was the son of

el Khadri'a. These thirteen^ men are the ancestors of the Kawahla.

III Khalifa had three sons, Muhammad and Mukwad and Mu-

hammad el Ahmar.

IV Muhammad was ancestor of the Hasania and the Gimaylia^ and the Sinaytab and the Delaykab and the Ghazalab^.

V Muhammad el Ahmar was ancestor of the LabAbis and the

Keramia and the 'Amria and the Hamaydania, and his sons were Hilal and Kedah.

VI Hilal begot 'Abad, the ancestor of the 'Ababda. VII Kedah begot three sons, Shambal and Salah and 'Akir. VIII The descendants of Shambal are the Shenabla and the KuRAYSHAB and the Nurab and the Rimaytab and the Salatna.

IX The descendants of Salah are the Ghazaya* and the Shadai'da and the Su'udia.

X 'Akir was ancestor of the Fuaida and the Kawamla^. XI 'Abad the second begot the 'Ababda. XII Berak begot the Berakna, who [consist of] three sections, viz. the Has AN AT [descended from] Hasan, and the Muhammadia

[descended from] Muhammad, and the Berakna [proper].

XIII Aswad begot the Asawida. XIV Budran begot the Budrania.

XV Sa'id*^ begot the Kadhakil (?) NAs 'Abd el Muttalib XVI Bishara begot the BishAriyyun. XVII The sons of the concubine were jointly the ancestors of the Beg A.

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