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(the ancestor of the Shibaylat and father of 'Ay ad and el Atrash), and Muhammad el 'Akil (the ancestor of the 'Akaliyyun), and Hakim, and Zamlut (the ancestor of the Kamatir), and Towal (the ancestor of the Towaliyyun), and Magid (the ancestor of the Razkia), and Bashkar (the ancestor of the Bashakira), and Hilal (the ancestor of the Hilaliyyun), and Halu (the ancestor of the Halawiy-
yun), and 'Isayl (the ancestor of the 'Isaylat), and Farag (the an-
cestor of the Faragab), and 'Abdulla Kerayn (the ancestor of the 'Abdullab^).
XI These fifteen were the sons of Hammad and [it is written] so in the Biography of Ibn Sid [Sa3^id ?] el Nas and the work of Ibn
'Abbas upon the origins of the people, and Ibn Haggar verified it with a view to the serious dissensions as to their pedigrees [that might arise] in later days.
XII Now the sons of Muhammad ibn Rafa'i, the full-brother of Hammad, were Zanfal and Haggag and Kasim and Ma'adad and Shabrak: these are the sons of Muhammad.
XIII And Muhammad ['Akil] had no children, but Ibn^ 'Arafa says what is true, namely that the paternal uncle is to be identified with
[?] his brother's son.
XIV Hasan el Ma'arak had four sons, Hammad and 'Asham and Dasham and Daras,
XV Hammad begot Ahmad 'Azu Rigal. XVI 'Asham begot Nagih and Nail and Tha'aleb and 'Othman and 'Amud.
XVII Dasham begot Bedr and Zayad by [one] mother, and Fadil
and Haggag [by another], and Hammad their brother on his father's side by a concubine.
XVIII Daras begot Ahmar and el Hamran.
XIX These are the sons of Hasan el Ma'arak. XX Hammad el A'lit's [descendants] are the Beni A'lat in general. XXI Hammad el Ad-ham's descendants are the Zamalat and the Zibaylat and the Agal and the Kurban and the Lahawiyyun^ and the Mezaniyyun (who have nothing to do with the Muzayna, who were of old an Arab tribe, but are only Muzayna descended from Ad-ham the brother of Rafa'i.
XXII This then is the pedigree of Rafa'i and his brothers and they were in league with one another; and God best knows the truth.
XXIII The tribes whose members it is not permissible to buy or
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