2i6 NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv.d2.xxxiv.

XXXIV The Hasania are Kawahla by descent. XXXV The Howara are HupuR by descent.

XXXVI The Gima'a are composed of various tribes, and most of them are Ga'aliyyun.

XXXVII The Ta'aisha and the Habbania and the Awlad Hamayd and Selim are the descendants of Hammad son of Gunayd, [and live]

round el Kalaka.

XXXVIII The Hawazma and the Humr and the Messiria and the

RiZAYKAT are the descendants of 'Atia, the brother of the Hammad mentioned above, and all of them are Guhayna.

XXXIX The Beni Helba are Guhayna by descent.

XL The most important of the sources from which pedigrees are

traced are the Beni Ommayya and the Beni 'Abbas and Guhayna, as was pointed out by the two sheikhs Ibn Khaldun and Ibn el Athir in their respective works.

XLI The 'AwAMRA are all descendants of 'Amir son of Sa'asa'a son of Dhubian son of Husfa son of Ghila son of Mudr son of Nizar^ son

of Ma'ad son of 'Adnan son of Ud son of Udad [etc.] up to the prophet el Sayyid Isma'il son of our lord Ibrahim, the Friend of God, upon

both of whom be the blessings of God.

XLII Now Isma'il son of Ibrahim was ancestor of the Arabs, and

Ishak son of Ibrahim was ancestor of the non-Arabs [el 'agam] ; and God knows best. The mother of the Arabs was Hagar the Copt

[el Kubtia] , and the mother of the non- Arabs was Sara the Israelite [el Isrdila].

D 2 (NOTES)

I Cp. BA, ccxiii; A II, liii, etc.

"Oudun" is 03^3' ^^^ "Unsa" is iwt. In the following paragraph 3

we have "Unsa" in some places and "Ounsa" (dL-Jjl) in others.

II " 1505 " is the Christian year corresponding to 910 a.h. V " 'Omarab " is an error. XI "Abu Merkha" is "Subuh Abu Merkha." XVI See D 3, 93 note. XXVII The Marghumab are meant.

XXVIII By "The six tribes" is meant the last six tribes mentioned. XXX Cp. D 7, XLix and para, viii above.

^ reading jljJ for jtju.