44 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. ba. liii.

XLVi, p. 254) speaks of various Kurdish tribes who allege descent from 'Adnan and among them occur "the BArisan and the Khalia and the GabArkia.

Liv " 'Alig" is Rami 'Alig, a series of great sandhills famous as the scene

in pre-Islamic times of the destruction of the tribe of Wabar (see Mas'udi, Ch. XLVII, p. 288).

LVI Here is confusion: from Rayth to Mudr is correct (see Wiistenfeld,

H), but this Mudr, father of 'Aylan, is the Mudr mentioned five lines later as son of Nizar, and the series of names intervening between the two

mentions of Mudr, viz. Mu'awia to el Yas, have got into the text by some error: this series is in itself too slightly inaccurate: Ka'ab is omitted between Murra and Luai, and the relationships of Mu'awia and el Hakam to 'Affan are wrongly shewn, and the father of 'Affan and son of Ommayya was Abu el Asi (see Wiistenfeld, U and V).

MS. 3 gives o'-o^i ^^^ O^*^ ^^d Ji.jj for ^ij. MSB. I, 2, 3, all give UJac by error for ^Ukc. The Dhubian intended in this passage is certainly Dhubian the son of Baghid (for which Mufid is probably an error), and grandson of Rayth ibn Ghatafan : he was brother of Abs and father of Fezara, both of which names occur very frequently in nisbas in conjunction with that of Dhubian.

Cp. ABC, xxviii.

There was a Dahman who was descended from Rayth in the fifth degree (see Wiistenfeld, H).

Fihr is the same as Kuraysh. Lvii Cp. BA, cxxiv and ABC, xxvi.

From el Zubayr to Kusai is correct (see Wiistenfeld, T). The rest is apparently pure invention, though identical with B i, xxiv. MS. i gives jJ^ by error for jXi^.

Lviii See ABC, xxvi.

Abdulla ibn Unays is the " Abdulla el Guhani" from whom so many Sudan Arab tribes claim descent. He sometimes appears {e.g. in D i,

Lxxvi) as "son of Anas" or "son of Anas ibn Malik," "Anas" being in such cases a corruption of Unays and the insertion of Malik due to the

fact that the famous divine Malik was son of Anas.

Abdulla "el Guhani" belonged to the family of Kuda'a and was not, strictly speaking, a Guhayni at all, but was so nicknamed. He was a

descendant of Kuda'a through 'Imram and Taghlib, whereas Guhayna was descended from Kuda'a through Aslam (see Wiistenfeld, 2). Wiistenfeld (p. 21) gives the following details concerning him:

He lived among the family of Salima ibn Sa'ad, a Khazragi, in Medina and was named "el Guhani" although not descended from Guhayna. After he had embraced Islam he joined Mu'adh ibn Gebel in destroying the idols of Salima, was one of the "Seventy" at el 'Akaba, and fought at Ohod. He was also entrusted by the Prophet with the duty of getting rid of Khalid ibn Sufian, the chief of the Lahian Arabs. Having accom-

plished this (in 625 A.D., see Muir's Life..., p. 267) he returned to Mu-

hammad, who presented him with his staff saying "This shall be a token