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MANUSCRIPT C 3

Introduction

This pedigree was copied out for me from his own copy by Hamid Muhammad Gabr el Dar, the hereditary chief of the Musaba'at of Darfur, who lives near el Obeid in Kordofan. He is more negroid

in appearance than Arab.

I In the name of God the Compassionate and Merciful.

God Almighty said "Ye people, I have created you of male and female, and made you races and tribes, that ye may know that he is

noblest in God's sight who is the most pious " ; and God is the source of all learning and knowledge.

II He upon whom be the blessings of God said "Ye know your pedigrees, how ye are descended," and he who knows not his pedigree is a Hamagi.

III The following is the pedigree of the stock of the Sultan Hashim

the Musaba'awi, and it contains the complete pedigree of the tribe of the Musaba'at. IV I am el Sultan Hamid son of el Sultan Muhammad Gabr el Dar

son of el Sultan Ahmad el Ga'ali son of el Sultan Hashim son of el Sultan 'f sawi son of el Sultan Muhammad Gunkul son of el Sultan Bahr son of el Sultan Idris Gerwabukht son of el Sultan Muhammad

Tumsah, ancestor of the Musaba'at and brother of Ahmad Kur, ancestor of Kungara, the two of whom were sons of el Sultan

Muhammad Sabun Ga'al son of el Sultan Habib (?) son of el Sultan Muhammad Dali son of Ahmad el Ma'akur son of Rizik son of

Sufial son of el Sultan Ga'afir Gurmun son of Kas son of Rufa'a

son of Batnan son of 'Agib son of Nagil son of 'fsa son of Mamun son of Idris son of Hilal son of 'Abd el Salam el Asmar, Imam of the people of Basra, son of el Nudr son of Kenan son of Khuzaym

son of Mudraka son of el Yas son of Mudr son of Nizar son of Ma'ad son of 'Adnan. Ends.