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D I (NOTES)

Note that where the reference to Wiistenfeld is marked by a letter the tribe in

question is Isma'flitic in descent; but where the reference is marked by a figure the tribe is Klahtdnite.

II Makhzum to Fihr correct: see Wiistenfeld, R 17.

III Ghatafan to Kays 'Aylan correct: see Wiistenfeld, H 8. IV This Kutayf is not in Wiistenfeld. The Beni Tai are Kahtanite.

V See Wiistenfeld, 7. This Kutayf was son of 'AbduUa son of Nagia. . . etc.

Farwa was the eighth generation in the direct line from Kutayf. VI Cp. Ibn Khaldun (trans, de Slane, Vol. iii, p. 180). He states that genealogists are united in saying that the Zenata are descended from

Ghana. " Abou Mohammed ibn Hazm ecrit, dans son Djemhera : ' quelques uns d'entre eux [i.e. Berbers] disent que Ghana est le meme personnage que Djana fils de Yahya fils de Soulat fils d'0ur9ak fils de Dari fils de Zeddjik fils de Madghis fils de Berr.'" Ibn Khaldun mentions also a variant given by the same author, viz. Ghana (or Djana) son of Yahya son of Soulat son of Our^ak son of Dari son of Ghacfoun son of Bendouad son of Imla son of Madghis son of Herek son of Her9ac son of Guerad son of Mazigh son of Herak son of Herik son of Bedian son of Kenan son of Ham,

VII See Wiistenfeld, 6. Nebhan was great-grandson of Tai, the founder of the great Kahtanite tribe of Tai. The descendants of Nebhan are cor-

rectly given, but for j.— ^ Wiistenfeld gives jo^,«.«« ; and "Messiria" may

thus be a corruption of "Meskhiria." Gp. paras, xxv and cxxxv and see Part HI, Ghap. 3, sub " Hawazma,"

viii Pedigree given correctly, but contrast para. CLi: see Wiistenfeld, i.

The Mahria are a branch of Kuda'a. Gp. D'Arvieux's Travels (p. 345): "Mahrah is a Province in which there are neither Palms nor Gultivated Lands : The Inhabitants have no other Effects than Gamels . . . Alsahah re-

ports that the Gamel called Almahrary or of Mahrah is so named from Mahrah the son of Hamdan, the Founder of a tribe." See also el Mas'udi (Ghap. 16): "They {i.e. the people of el Mahrah) have a sort of camel called Mahri camel: it goes as fast as the Bejawi camel, or even faster as some think."

IX Saba was son of Yashgub (or Yashhub) son of Ya'arub : see Wiisten-

feld, I.

The "lesser" and the "least" Himyars are not mentioned by Wiisten-

feld, but their alleged ancestors are: see Wiistenfeld, 3. A confusion has arisen between two men called Zayd : one, the son of

Sahal son of 'Amr, was the ancestor of Malik and 'Adi, etc., as given: the other was son of Sadad son of Zura'a son of Saba "the lesser," who was grandson of the first Zayd (son of Sahal). Sahal and Zayd have been

transposed by the copyist: otherwise all is correct from Saba "the lesser" to el Ghauth.