1 86 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv.di.xxxiv.
no posterity. The children of Dabba, excepting the Daylum, are
included among the Beni Sa'ad. XXXV The Daylum are the children of Dabba, as I have shown.
XXXVI The Beni Dubayb (spelt with vowel-points as in " Zubayr ") are a section of Gudham.
XXXVII Gudham (spelt with vowel-points as in ghurdh) are a tribe from el Yemen who settled in the mountains of Hisma beyond
the Wadi el Kura ; and this was the surname of 'Amr son of 'Adi son of el Harith son of Murra son of Udad son of Yashkhub son of 'Ari'b son of Zayd son of Kahlan, and Gudham was brother of Lakhm and
'Amila and 'Ufayr^. XXXVIII The Beni Sahila are the descendants of Sahila son of
Kahil son of el Harith son of Tamim son of Sa'ad son of Hudhayl, and they are tribes and are called the Kahiliyyun.
XXXIX The Beni Kahil son of 'Udhra son of Sa'ad Hudhayl^ are a different tribe.
XL DCs is a tribe of Arabs. XLI Bagila is a tribe from el Yemen, from Saba.
XLII The Beni Mustalik are a section of Khuza'a. XLI 1 1 The Khata are a tribe of the Turks.
XLIV The Ta'aisha Arabs are the descendants of 'Ai'sh son of
el Zarb son of el Harith son of Fihr Gahili ; and this 'Ai'sh was an-
cestor of 'Awaymir son of Sa'ada el Bedayri. XLV The Hawazma are a sub-tribe of Bagila and are the children of Hazim son of Abu Hazim el Bagili ; but a number of Arab and
black tribesmen, attracted b]/ the advantages of fellowship and fra-
ternity with them, [joined them], and the original stock and its accre- tions became indistinguishable.
XLVI Khuza'a are [descended] from el Azd^: that is to say Haritha son of 'Amr Muzaykia son of 'Amir begot Rabi'a, i.e. Ma-el-Sama, and Rabi'a begot Lohay and Afsa and 'Oday and Ka'ab, and from these are descended Khuza'a. Now they were called "Khuza'a" because they separated [l^^^s^j] from their [own] people and settled at Mekka; and others went to Syria.
XLVI I The Habbani'a are the descendants of Habban son of
el Kulus son of 'Amr son of Kays, a sub-tribe of Bahila.
XLVIII Bahila are a tribe of Kays 'Aylan, and originally Bahila was the name of a woman of Hamdan^ who was [married] to Ma'an
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