190 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV. di. lxxxii.

LXXXII Now it is related on the authority of 'Urwa ibn Misayk el Muradi that when the revelation concerning Saba was made to

the Prophet, a certain man said "O Prophet of God, what is Saba ?

Is it a country or a woman ?" The Prophet replied "It is neither a country nor a woman, but a man who begot ten [tribes] of the Arabs, and six of them went to Yemen and four of them to Syria : the latter

were Lakhm and Gudham and Ghassan and 'Amila ; and the former were el Azd and el Ash'ariun and Himyar and Kenda and Mudhhig and Anmar." Then the man said "O Prophet of God, what is Anmar ? " The Prophet answered " Those from whom are descended Khat'am and Bagila."

LXXXII I Saba was son of Yashkhub son of Ya'arub son of Kahtan, and [his descendants] lived at Marib in the land of el Yemen, and when their villages were laid waste they dispersed into [various]

lands: Ghassan occupied Syria, el Azd^ occupied 'Oman^, Khuza'a occupied Tehama, and el Aus and el Khazrag occupied Yathreb,

and the first of them^ was 'Amr ibn 'Amir, who was ancestor of el Aus and el Khazrag.

LXXXIV Now the tribes of the Arabs are Muzayna and Guhayna

and Kenana and Khuzayma and Aslam and Ashga'a and Ghafar, and whoso does not belong to one of these is not an Arab but only a foreigner.

LXXXV Muzayna are to be found on the Nile and in Egypt ;

Kenana are at Mekka and in el Yemen and thereabouts ; Guhayna are in the Sudan ;

Aslam are in India and Mesopotamia [el 'Irak] ; Ashga'a are in the west and Persia [Fans] and Morocco [Marrd- kesh] ; and

Ghafar are in Spain [el Andalus] and Persia. LXXXVI The Guhayna who are in the west are the descendants of

'Abdulla el Guhani, son of Anas, the attendant of the Prophet (upon him be the blessing of God !), and also connected with him by birth in that both had a common ancestor in Murra.

LXXXVII This 'Abdulla had two sons namely Dhubian and Sufian. LXXXVIII Sufian had only one son, who was named Kabsh, and he is the ancestor of everyone who is a Kabbashi.

LXXXIX Dhubian, the elder son, had ten sons, namely Watid,

Fahid, Shatir, Bashir, 'Amir, 'Omran, Mahass, Afzar, Sarid and

Agdham'*.

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