340 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. d 5. xxxvii.
XXXVII Salim ibn Shaik had four sons, Khalid and Serayh and
Ya'akub and Rashid.
XXXVIII Khalid's descendants are the Khalidab, Serayh's the Serayhab, Ya'akub's the Ya'akubab, and Rashid's the Rishaydab.
D 5 (c) NOTES
i-iii The author's knowledge of history is so hopeless that it is not easy to guess at the date at which it is suggested that Subuh immigrated to the Sudan.
From Harun el Wathik to el 'Abbas the generations are correct; but Ga'afir was Harun's brother, not his son. Ga'afir ruled from 847 to 861 a.d. and was not killed by "the Tartars" at all. The author seems to have gloriously confused the Saljuk Turks, the Mongols or Tartars, and the Ottoman Turks.
The last of the 'Abbasids, 'AbduUa el Musta'sim was killed by Hulagu the Mongol in 1258 and the sack of Baghdad followed; but no less than twenty-six Khalifas ruled, at least nominally, for a total period of nearly
400 years, at Baghdad, between the death of Ga'afir el Mutawakkil and the accession of 'Abdulla el Musta'sim.
The probability is that the author means to suggest that Subuh came to the Sudan about the middle of the thirteenth century, Cp. ABC, xxii,
where Ghanim, Subuh 's grandson, is spoken of as being the first immigrant, i.e. in 1277 a.d.
" Merakh" is Leptadenia Spartiutn, a switch-like shrub without leaves. IV The connection of the Hasanab with the rest of the SnAiKfA, accord-
ing to the version given by the author of D 5 (c) in the following paragraphs, if given in the form of a genealogical tree, would be as follows :
Shafk ,1 J I I I 'On Nafa'a el Hag Sowar (by a Muhammad the younger {'Onia) (Ndfa'db) Muhammad Tungur woman) ('Adldndb)
^ \ III I I Zayn el Dfn Kanud 'Amr Hamdulla Tamalayk Nimr {Zayneldindb) {Kanuddb) {'Amrdb) \'Akuddb (Tamdlayk) ['Anayndb ,. ^ , (Amindb (Hamartuddb Hasan (Hasandb) \ \
Gadat Wasif 'Aid ^11 I I (Zilaytdb) VAiddb) Fahd Sima'a Hanfd (?) Durban Makdsh (?) K.^^y."") K^ ) I I 1 Howwash Sdlim Muhammad Kadunk (flotvivashdb) I {Kadunkdb) I \ \ 1 Khilid Serayh Ya'akub Rashid {Khdliddb) (Serayhdb) (Ya'akubdb) (Rishayddb)