176 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. C9. iii.

III Praise be to God who honoured el Medina with the Prophet of God, and protected it, and chose it above all places, and selected it,

and named it "Tayyiba" [Sweet] because it was sweetened by the sweetness of the Beloved [i.e. the Prophet] and its soil was sweetened. And he bore witness that there is no god but God alone and that He has no partner, but is the God of all created beings and has developed them. And He bore witness that our lord Muhammad is

His servant and apostle, whom His God called "YS" and "TH."

IV As regards what follows : 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.

V I say then that I am the fakir in God's sight, 'Abdulla son of el Sayyid Dafa'alla son of el Sayyid Mukbal son of el Sayyid Nafa'i son of el Sayyid Muhammad " Fala'alah Washm" son of el Sayyid Salama son of el Sayyid Bedr son of el Sayyid Muhammad son of

el Sayyid Ahmad son of el Sayyid Rafa'i son of el Sayyid 'Amir son of el Sayyid el Husayn son of el Sayyid Isma'i'l son of el Sayyid

'Abdulla son of el Sayyid Ibrahim son of el Sayyid el Imam Musa

el Kazim 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 " The Great

Captain," whom God proved by [every] kind of trial and test, the Commander of the Faithful, the father of 'Abdulla, our lord el Husayn, the martyr of Kerbela, the son of Fatima the Glorious, the queen of the women of the universe, the daughter of the lord of the apostles,

our lord Muhammad. . .son of 'Abdulla, son of 'Abd el Muttalib son

of Hashim [and so on] to his ancestor 'Adnan. VI At this point ends the authentic and universally accepted

pedigree.

VII He upon whom be the blessings of God said "May the curse of God be upon him that intrudes himself upon us without a pedigree

or that leaves us without reason."

VIII El Sayyid 'Amir had three sons, Muhammad Rafa'i and Ahmad el Ad-ham and Hammad el A'li't, own brothers.

IX Rafa'i begot Hammad and Muhammad, own brothers, and also Ahmad their brother on the father's side.

X Ahmad begot Bedr; and Hammad begot Hasan el Ma'arak (the ancestor of the 'Arakiyyun), and Husayn (the ancestor of the Beni Husayn), and Hasan (the ancestor of the Beni Hasan), and Shibayl