[i66]
MANUSCRIPT C 7
Introduction
This document was borrowed from Ahmad Musa'ad, brother of the
'omda of the Halawiyyun, who are a section of Rufa'a. It was a transcription, and the original had perished.
It is obviously an inferior version of the earher paragraphs of C 9 (q-v.), and is indeed alleged to have been brought from Mekka
by " Abdulla el Araki," whose pedigree C 9 represents.
I In the name of God. . .{some five lines of laudation follow). II When I saw that the records of lineage were being lost in [various]
countries and most men's pedigrees in [different] lands, I feared lest my noble pedigree, which connects me with the lord of the apostles, should be lost ; for it is not right for one to hide it nor to depart from
it without reason ; so I wished to record my pedigree, so that all my posterity after me might know it and be quite certain of their own
pedigree.
III I am Ahmad son of el feki Musa'ad son of el Sheikh Ahmad son of Idris son of 'Abd el Kadir son of Muhammad son of el feki
Shinayna son of the perfect saint el feki Rahma son of Guma'a son of 'Afif son of Ibrahim Shakh son of Muhammad Zaghyu son of Nail son of Halu son of Hammad son of el Sayyid Rafa'i son of el Sayyid 'Amir son of el Sayyid Husayn son of el Sayyid Isma'i'l son of el Sayyid 'Abdulla son of el Sayyid Ibrahim son of el Sayyid Musa el Kaxim son of el Sayyid el Imam Ga'afir el Sadik son of el Sayyid el Imam Muhammad el Bakir son of el Sayyid 'Ali Zayn el 'Abdi'n son of him that was known as "Lord of the Imams,. . .and Com-
mander of the Faithful" el Sayyid 'Abdulla el Husayn, the martyr of Kerbela^ (which is the name of the place where he was killed), el Husayn the son of Fatima the Glorious . . . (four lines of laudatio?i
of Fdtima and 'AH, and the pedigree of the latter up to 'Adjidn, correctly given, follow here).
IV This is transcribed from El Anwar el Nebawia fi Abdi Khayr
el Baria and occurs in the fifth chapter of the Anwar el Nebawia : Ibn el Salah mentions it in the commentary on el Bokhari.
V God knows best, and may he bless our lord Muhammad and his family.
^ reading aXjj£s for <kjj£s.