42 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. ba. xxvi.

XXVI "ShaybAn" is certainly correct. AB (the original) gives C^^ ("such as Yasan" — a non-existent tribe), instead of ^jl;.j>»fr> . Here we have evidence that the corresponding passages in BA and AB were taken from different sources.

XXX This paragraph is in AB prefaced by " It is said that. . . ." XXXI The first half of this paragraph is omitted in AB. -xxxii Cp. BA, III; AB, cxx; A3, in; A8, ii; A 7, i; C 5 (a), in.

The quotation continues the previous one (para, xxiii), from ch. 49 of the Kuran. A 3 omits the explanatory part of this paragraph,

-x-xxiii Cp. AB, cxv; A 3, in; C 3, i.

"He," as appears from AB, is el Khazin. This quotation, a very common one, is again from ch. 49 of the Kuran. MS. 3 here correctly gives aJLas^)!, MSS. i and 2 wrongly give

-XXXVII Cp. AB, cxvi. This tradition is given by el Bokhari in the chapters entitled Kitdb badi el Khalk and Mandkibii Kurayshin (see el Zebaydi, vol. II, pp. 38 and 46).

"Yusef" is Joseph, and "The Friend of God" ("el Khalil") is Abraham. One generation is omitted.

The word translated "original sources" is ^^Ia.*. AB gives this correctly, but apparently none of the copyists of BA knew the word,

xxxviii Cp. AB, cxvii.

For "she-camel" BA gives "wa^a" and BA" rahd/a." The camel was called "el Kaswa" and was the famous one on which the Prophet fled from Mekka. The second half of this paragraph occurs in AB, cvi and cxvii in a different setting.

AB and MS. 3 of BA give a-*c for A«ft (MSS. i and 2). XLi Cp. AB, cviii. XLii Cp. AB, cix and A 8, i. XLiv Abu Lahab was the uncle of the Prophet. Ch. 1 11 of the Kurdn is devoted to cursing him for his opposition to Islam.

XLV The quotation is from ch. 53 of the Kuran. XLvii Cp. AB, cxxx. XLViii Cp. AB, cxxxi, cxxxii; A 3, iv; and D i, lxxxiv.

The tradition occurs in el Bokhari (chapter Mandkibii Kurayshin, see el Zebaydi, vol. 11, p. 46) in the following words:

^A».c a.Js, dJJI ^^y^ dJJl J^_j J'v5 Jls <iJsS. AiJI ^^^j ojj^ ^-.1 ^J£.

\^^y^ ^r.-J L/-^' i^'y^ j'^^ ^=^^5 ^-^'i **:!j-«i ^;^».3 jl««j'^)l^ tAi/*

" 'Abd el Baki" is Abd el Baki ibn Yusef el Zurkani (for whom see Hagi Khalfa's Lexicon, vol. v, p. 447). He was born 1020 a.h. and died in 1099 A.H. (1688 A.D.).

The word oUL::-« means literally a niche in a wall wherein to place a lamp.

The seven great Arabian tribes mentioned will all be found in Wiisten-

feld. By "cl Ansar" are meant Aus and Khazrag.