IV. BA. Liii. OF THE SUDAN 43
XLix Cp. AB, cxxxiv, cxxxv; and A 3, v.
AB prefaces the paragraph by "In some reliable records I have found that. ..." Of the seven tribes given six are identical (though the order is varied) with those given in AB, but in place of Kuraysh AB gives Khu- ZAYMA (as also does D i , lxxxv). AB again gives "Who am thus the noblest of the noblest of the noblest. . ." and omits from "And this is. . ." to "true one." MS. 3 spells Ghafar )U5.
L Cp. AB, cxxxviii, cxxxix; B i, ii; B 3, i.
For "Nigm" AB and B i give"LAGM": B 3 gives "Nigm." AB, B i, and B 3 all add GudhAm to the list.
The tribes mentioned seem to be mostly, if not all, Kahtanite tribes
descended from 'Abd Shams. " Nigm " (or " Lagm ") may be a corruption of Lakhm. "Bi'sar" is mentioned by Mas'udi (chap, xxxi) as a son of Ham who migrated westwards to Egypt, and was the father of Misr, but
he seems out of place here. B i reads "Bis." "Hukna" (iui^) may be a corruption of Gafna (a^Jlc^) (for whom see D i, 194). "Kelab EL Azd" should possibly be "Kelab (or Kelb) and el Azd," both well- known tribes. MSS. i and 2 give " Kelam el Azrad," and MS. i " Kelab el Azrad."
"El Mahassi" is apocryphal. After "Kahtan" AB continues "And another version is that el Mahassi was the son of the prophet Ibrahim . . .
but I have not found this true." The author of BA seems to have combined
the two versions. MS. i gives "el Mahassi son of Kahtan son of el Ma-
hassi.. .etc.," which more nearly agrees with B i; but I have followed MS. 2 here.
LI Cp. AB, cxxxvi, and D i, lxxxiv, lxxxv.
All three MSS. of BA give Afiw^j^o-* for A<>.j2.o-6 (AB). The version of AB differs from B A as follows :
(a) re Guhayna, the words "and the west" are omitted. (b) „ HiMYAR, after "el Basra" AB adds "and Persia" ["Faris"]. (c) „ Ashga'a, after "Tunis" AB adds "and Andalusia." (d) ,, Ghafar, AB substitutes "el Basra" for "Andalusia and Persia." (e) „ Kenana, after "Egypt" AB adds "and Syria." There is a large colony of Muzayna at the S.E. end of the Sinai Peninsula. They claim to be Harb by origin and their chief branch is the
'Alowna, a name which occurs more than once in the Sudan as that of a
tribal division. See Na'um Bey, Hist. Sinai..., p. 112, for the Muzayna. Lii This and the following three paragraphs do not occur in AB.
For the story of Noah and Ham cp. el Tabari, p. 107.
LIII By Kuran are meant the Kura'an, a wide term generally applied in the Sudan to the negroid element among the Tibbu. They almost certainly
represent the ancient Garamantes and are the " Goran" of Leo Africanus (see MacMichael, Tribes..., pp. 235 et seq.).
For "el Hind" and "el Sind" and Gog and Magog see notes to D I, Lvi and lxx.
As regards " Parish " and " Darish " and " Khalabka " and " GAbirsa " (MS. 3 "GabusA") I fancy the Kurdish tribes are meant. Mas'udi (ch.