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 con-

nection between the Awlad 'Ukba and the Fellata (see MacMichael, Tribes..., pp. 178 et seq.). It is just possible that he may have been con-

fused 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 com-

mentator. 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 <A^t 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