IV. BA. cxxxm. OF THE SUDAN 49 cxviii The Arabic translated "some say they are among the above" is jg J.*5 and it seems that "the above" are the group in the preceding paragraph. The generahty of nisbas gives their ancestor as Zubayr ibn el 'Awwam.

cxix Cp. A 2, XXXVII ; A II , LXi and D i , cliv.

This 'Ukba ibn Yasir also occurs as ancestor of the Awlad 'Ukba who are now a section of the Kababish, and there is also a traditional connection between the Awlad 'Ukba and the Fellata (see MacMichael, Tribes..., pp. 178 et seq.). It is just possible that he may have been confused with 'Abdulla ibn Yasin, the Berber holy-man and leader who flourished about 1050 a.d. (see Johnston, p. 63).

cxxi Balkis is the biblical queen of Sheba.

cxxii "El Gemal" is Sheikh Sulayman el Gemal, a Kuranic commentator. A hdshia is properly a series of glosses on a commentary. The work of el Gemal was entitled El Futuhdt el Illdhia.

The first passage quoted is from Ch. 37 of the Kuran, and the second from Ch. 49.

cxxiii Cp. B I, XXIII and ABC, xxvi. Soba is the ancient 'Aloa: cp. D7, v.

cxxiv See Wiistenfeld, T, and cp. paras, lvii and B i, xxiv.

Zubayr had 14 sons, including an 'Abdulla but not a Hasan. cxxvi MS. 3 gives " Mazayn " for " Men'n." cxxvii There has been no previous mention of this " Khamsin." cxxviii MS. 3 reads " The descendants of 'Amir are the 'AwAmra and the...," etc. (as in MSS. i and 2), and omits the last sentence.

cxxix-cxxxii Cp. AB, CLXii-CLxv; A 11, viii; A 3, x, etc.

The word translated "allied themselves" is s_--~-iJ {i.e. lit. "traced their genealogy"). Thewords "and [similarly] Guhayna were 80 tribes" are omitted in A i .

MS. 3 omits "and Hilal." cxxxm Cp. AB, clxvi and xxxix et seq.; BA, ccxxviii; A 2, i; A 3, xv.

MS. 3 gives "Buda'a" for "Kuda'a"; and "Ibrahim el Ga'aH" for "Ibrahim Ga'al"; and "Yemen, the Khazragi on his mother's side, son of 'Adnan " instead of " Yemen son of el Khazrag son of 'Adi " ; and " The Himyari on his mother's side, son of Hamayd son of Sa'ad the Ansari on his mother's side" instead of "el Himyari son of..., etc."

The Arabic for "the . . .on his mother's side," or "whose mother was descended from . . . " is . . . a' a*— j or <At 5y». j . This apparent practice of surnaming a man after his mother's tribe is worth noting. Cp. A 9, III (note).

"Son of Himyar" is no doubt an error. A 5, A 6, A 7, A 8, A 10 all give Dhu el Kila'a el Himyari as son of Sa'ad. "Son of Himyar" was probably at first a corruption of "el Himyari," and then a copyist added "el Himyari" without removing "son of Himyar." The version quoted in para, xxxix of AB contains the same error. A 2 (alone) gives "son of Hudha'a" in place of "son of Himyar."

As a matter of fact I distrust the statement that Dhu el Kila'a was