lyo THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.cs.xxvii.
XXVII Bakoi begot the Hashiab, who live at Koz Ragab and the
Kash,and who trace their lineage to the AsHRAFon their mother's side.
XXVIII Abu Sabayka begot the Sabaykab. XXIX Ibrahim the son of Sulayman son of Daud el Hashi begot
'Omar, Ak-hal, Fakad and Bakoi.
XXX Ak-hal and Fakad died childless.
XXXI 'Omar begot the 'Omarab, the Bakaisa, the Shokab, the MiTKENAB and the 'Agamab.
XXXII Bakoi begot the Delisab; and among the Delisab are the
Terarif, the people of Idris Teraf, the father of el Sheikh 'Abd el Rahman walad Teraf; and the Sirayrab; and the Korumab, the people of Mahmud walad Zaid.
XXXIII Among the descendants of Ibrahim the elder are the
Haganab^, and the Badrab, the people of el Sheikh el 'Ebayd Muhammad Bedr.
XXXIV The Shokab and the 'Ashwab and the Rihaymab are
descended from Ibrahim the younger, son of 'Abdulla son of 'Omar son of Ibrahim the elder.
XXXV From Hammad el Hayhari son of Sulayman are descended the Kusaysab, the Tuayrab, and the Wanaysab, the stock of
el Sheikh Muhammad walad Abu Wanaysa, and the Dualiyyun, the people of Um Rawia, and the Shawabna in the Shaybun country,
and the Gabagira, and the Nakaki'z and the Fadliyyun.
XXXVI From him too are descended the Mahawasha, the Shelu-
KHATAB^, the Barsakab^, the 'Awaydab and the Hatatib. XXXVII All of these are branches of the stock of Hammad el
Hayhari. And here ends the pedigree of the descendants of Musallam
ibn 'Atif ibn Hegaz, who was an Ommawi on the side of his mother Rabi'a el Ommawia; but his father was 'Abd el Hamid son of. . . {etc., as in tree, q.v.). This is the accepted pedigree of the Mesal- lamia: there is no other reliable one. God best knows the truth, and to Him all men return.
C 8 (NOTES)
II This Musallam is the eponymous ancestor of the Mesallamia.
III El Ami'n ibn Delisa is said to have been a Mesallami living on the Atbara and a contemporary of Hasan wad Hasuna (died 1664 A. D.; see D 3, 132). Cp. para, xxxii.
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