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Kusas son of Kerab son of Hatil son of Yatil son of Dhu el Kila'a

el Himyari son of Himyar son of Sa'ad son of el Fadl son of 'Abdulla son of el 'Abbas, God bless him.

CXXXIV This is the account given by some, but the following is given by the generality of genealogists : Serrar son of Kerdam son of Abu el Di's son of Kuda'a son of Harkan son of Masruk son of Ahmad

el Hegazi son of Muhammad el Yemeni son of Ibrahim Ga'al son of Sa'ad son of el Fadl son of 'Abdulla son of el 'Abbas, the uncle of the best of men, upon him be the blessing of God, son of 'Abd el Muttalib son of Hashim son of 'Abd Menaf son of Kusai son of Kelab son of Murra son of Ka'ab son of Luai son of Ghalib son of Fihr son of Malik son of el Nudr son of Kenana son of Khuzayma son of Mudraka son of el Yds son of Mudr son of Nizar^ son of

Ma'ad son of 'Adnan.

CXXXV Beyond that we will not go since he upon whom be the blessings of God warned us against so doing.

CXXXVI And whosoever is not enrolled among his descendants,

that is [among the descendants] of the Sultan Kerdam, is not a Ga'aU. CXXXVII Now his father Abu el Dis had two sons : one of them was

called Tergam, but I do not know of his having any descendants,

and the other was el Sultan Hasan Kerdam son of Abu el Di's.

CXXXVIII He, it is said, had ten sons: seven of them returned to

el Kufa; and those that are known and whose descendants are pre-

served and recorded in the genealogies are three, viz. Dula and Tamim and Serrar.

CXXXIX The descendants of Dula are the Sakarang^, the kings of

Gebel Tekali ; the descendants of Tami'm are the Tomam ; and the sons of Serrar were Samra and Samayra and Mismar.

CXL Samra had four sons, Bedayr and 'Abd el Rahman Abu Shayh and Terayfi and Ahmad Abu Rish.

CXLI The descendants of Bedayr are the Bedayri'a, of 'Abd el Rahman Abu Shayh the Shuwayhat, of Terayfi the Terayfia, and

of Ahmad Abu Ri'sh the RiAsH^.

CXLII The descendants of Samayra are the Ghodiat* and the KuNAN and the KusAs and the Batahin.

CXLIII Mismar had four sons, Sa'ad el Ferid and three sons by [another] mother, Subuh Abu Merkha and Rubat and Nebih.

CXLIV Sa'ad el Ferid had three sons, Kahtan and Selma and Hammad.

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