54 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS IV. ba. clxxi.
The sons of Sa'ad Abu Dabus were 'Abd el Salam and Kanbalawi and Sanad, and Idris el Kati'a ancestor of the 'Abdsalamab, the people of el Buayda.
The sons of Sa'ad Abu Dabus ["Abu Dabus" error for "ibn Diab": cp. ABC] were el Burnis^ and Nasir and Muhammad el Kusayer and 'Ali and SaHh. Ends."
"The Babsa [for 'AbAbsa'] are. . ., etc." (as para, clxxiii of BA). Paras, xviii and xix in ABC closely correspond to the above.
CLXXii For "Shukal" MS. i gives "Shukalu."
For "the Mek iSluhammad" MS. 2 gives "el mekani Muhammad" ("who was surnamed Muhammad"). " Koz Bara" (MS. 3, "Koz Ba'ara") may possibly refer to Bara in Kordofan, a few miles N.W. of which among the sandhills is a Khar called Yoiy. Koz means a sandhill or ridge.
CLXXIII The first of the 'Abbasids was called 'AbduUa Abu el 'Abbas "el Saffah": it was his elder half-brother and successor, el Mansur, who was called "Abu Ga'afir."
For "el Rai. . ." MS. 3 gives "el Rama and el Mashhur." CLXXiv Cp. A 2, xxviii, and A 11, lxiv.
The Imam 'Ali had a son Muhammad who was called " Ibn el Hanafia" because his mother was of the tribe of Hanifa (see Wiistenfeld, p. 31 1 and Y).
CLXXV Cp. A 2, XL, and A 11, lxiii; and see note to D i, cm.
A 2 gives Kutaf for Kahtan: cp. ABC, xxxi. It is, of course, only the mention of Hatim el Tai {q.v. Wiistenfeld, 6) that suggested (as in A 11, LXiii) the idea of generosity.
clxxvi Cp. A 2, xxxviii and A 11, lxii.
Here we have a valuable hint as to the different treatments accorded
to the original MS. of "el Samarkandi" by BA, A2, and A 11, respectively: A II simply begins "I heard. . ., etc." {i.e. el Samarkandi heard), but out of spite inserts some remarks of his own.
A 2 is slightly paraphrasing for he begins "The Hadarba are a well- known tribe. El Samarkandi says 'I heard...,' etc." BA simply para-
phrases the whole without mentioning el Samarkandi. For Haggag the Thakifi see Wiistenfeld, G. He was born in 42 a.h. and
died in 95 a.h. He was successively governor of the Hegaz and of el 'Irak.
The "Hadlarma" are elsewhere called "Hadarba" and "HadAreb" (see D 7, li in particular). Mansfield Parkyns says {Life in Abyssinia,
Ch. iv) "The inhabitants of Souakin and its neighbourhood are called Hadarba and their language Hadandawy." He regarded them as a branch of the same group as the Bisharin, and mentions that they were enter- prizing traders. For an account of them see Part III, Ch. 13.
CLXXVii Cp. A 2, xxxvi and An, lx.
No information beyond that vouchsafed here is given in any of the nisbas concerning the Gabarta; but Parkyns {Life in Abyssinia, Ch. xl)
speaks of a village over the Abyssinian border, east of Kedaref, as "in-
habited by Abyssinian Mohammedans, who are called by their Arab
co-religionists, Jibberti." Burckhardt also mentions them as a "class of
^ reading ^^-JjnJl for ^_^^M.