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CXI The descendants of Hammad are the AwlAd Akoi^ and the Meganin : or, according to [another] account [the latter] are descen-
dants of Hamid and their father was called Magnun. CXII The son of Hilal son of Sufian Afzar was Hasan el Hilali, whose mother was a concubine; and his sons were Ferag and Nuh and Doka and their mother was Lula.
CXIII Doka's sons were Shilluk and Dinka and Ibrahim and Dekin. CXIV The son of Ibrahim was Asbi'h, and Asbi'h's sons were Gank and Funkur and Kaf and Ulu el Ghaya.
CXV Deki'n had five sons, Kira and Kiran and Karanku and Doka and Aywa.
CXVI And it is said that the Kai'dab and the Mahidab and the 'Afsa and the Bakab and the Mesa'id and the Karafi'd and the Khagilat and the Kasirab and the Shukrab and the Ma'ai'da and their subdivisions are all of the stock of Muhammad ibn 'Amir.
CXVII The Bega and the Khas and the Baria and the Kura'an
and the Mi'dob and Zaghawa^ are said [by some] to be originally from Makada, and by others to be among the descendants of the Gin that deceived the prophet of God Sulayman son of Daud, upon both of them be the blessings of God, when he was away from his wife, namely Hafhaf son of Shamakh.
CXVIII There is a difference of opinion as to the Kawahla, the sons of Kahil: some say they are among the above, and some that
they are descended from el Zubayr ibn el 'Awwam : God knows the truth best.
CXIX Similarly there is a difference of opinion about the Fellata : some say they are the sons of Fellat son of Ukba son of Yasir, [who], when he converted the people of the West, married the daughter of
the Sultan of the infidels. Their language is that of their mother's people.
CXX And [men] have disputed about these tribes as to their being
descended from the Gin, and said " How could the Gin have offspring by a human woman, because the Gin is not of human descent.?" God knows the truth best.
CXXI Compare the story of Balki's^ and how it is said that her mother was a female Gin: [but] knowledge belongs to Almighty God.
CXXII If you wish for the explanation refer to [the remarks in] the
Hashia of el Genial [on the passages] wherein God says "And I made [Noah's] offspring \to be] those who survived " and "And I have made
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