294 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV. d 3.
not Muhammad. His mother Kaia was the daughter of el Hag Salama el Dubabi {q.v. in No. 84) and he was thus, it is said, connected with the 'Araki family.
The name "Nahld)i" is a corruption of " zvahaldn" ("dirty," "un-
kempt"): he is said to have remained for thirty-six months shut up in his khalwa in a course of asceticism and retirement.
The present Khalifa is the eighth in descent from him, the names
being as follows: Abu 'Akla (present Khalifa), ibn Hammad, ibn Muhammad, ibn Hammad, ibn el Sayyid, ibn el Na'im, ibn 'Abd el Habib, ibn Hammad.
"i/e studied. . . ." For the Arabic see Appendix 21. Muays is close to Shendi.
" Took ten sealings": see note to AB, xcix. "Sultana" {"rulers") here probably means spiritual rulers or fukara. The text mentions that he, like No. 241 (q.v.), met " el Sayyid el Khidr," and followed his teaching. For el Khidr see note to 241,
Some six pages are devoted to the biography of No. 125. He is men-
tioned in D 7 (q.v. XLiii) but is there called Ahmad instead of Hammad:
D 3 carefully dates his death as in Uti"^)^ <i-»W' J^ y*^ a^ <*-!-«' and the dates of his contemporaries corroborate the accuracy of this. He is also mentioned in Budge (vol. ii, p. 202). Jackson by confusing Badi el Ahmar
with Badi "Sid el Kum" has antedated "Wad el Turabi" by about a century.
126. Cp. No. 29 (his son).
Karkog. The word is here written "Kargog" {^^af.ySs>), and the same spelling occurs incidentally in No. 117 (not in the translated text). For remarks upon the accuracy or otherwise of this spelling see note to BA, ccxvi.
127. "'Sawdk el Rakd,' for when. . .donkey": for the Arabic see Appendix 22. The *'rakd" is the leathern jug used by Muhammadans for their ablutions.
Maskin is the father of No. 250.
129. By " GudhAm " here is not meant the Arabian tribe of that name but the descendants of Gudham (or Agdham), who appears in the Guhayna pedigrees as brother of Sarid, the ancestor of the Sowarda (cp. e.g. D i, XCVIIl).
" My paternal ..." \s
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130. "'Agwa" are properly dried dates of best quality, pressed in baskets.
"His mother's brother. . .Gdhir": for the Arabic see Appendix 23.
131. Cp. D I, cxxi. D 3 does not mention the exact connection of Belli with the rest of the Rikabia but see No. 222 and BA, cciii.
132. This is the famous " Wad Hasuna," founder of the village of that name about 27 miles west of Abu Delayk, and eponymous ancestor of the
Hasunab. The present inhabitants of Wad Hasuna claim to be Ashraf (see C 6 and cp. ABC, x), but many are of very mixed descent. Sheikh Hasan