56 THE NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS iv. ba. cxcviii.
The copyist of MS. 3 evidently thought, rightly or wrongly, that ^J
and 4i> ("Y" and "T") were symbols of hidden meaning (op. Hughes, p. 517). For a similar case see MS. C 9, in.
ecu MS. 3 omits "I am not sure of Hasabulla's descendants," and "I do not know. . . , etc."
cciii MSS. 2 and 3 (and other MSS. I have seen) give "Kenar" for "Kena." MS. 3 omits Selim the son of 'Abd el Razik.
There is a biography of Sheikh Hasan wad Belila in D 3, No. 131. ccv For Ibrahim el Bulad see AB (lxxxix, xciv, etc.).
Various details as to these four famous Gabirab will be found in D 3,
17, etc. MS. 3 gives "GabArAb" for "GAbirAb." ccvi MS. 3 gives "Gabril" for "Merin" (MSS. i and 2). ccvii Cp. para. CLXXix, and D i, xcii and civ, where the relationship between these three Rikabs is given.
MS. 3 omits the generations after 'Aid and the words " called Nowawa." A further version of the Rikabia nisba will be found in D 5 (d), closely resembling BA.
ccix It is not improbable that with this paragraph (which is omitted by MS. 3) the original copy of the nisba by el Sherif Tahir (q.v. in para, ccxxiii) ended. El Sherif Tahir obviously could not have written the account of the Fungs which follows because they practically all reigned after his death.
ccx The first quotation is given by Hughes (p. 483, "Quraish"). The Arabic of the second is
The last sentence is
The tasbih is the saying of subhdnu 'llahi {" Glory be to God "). For "the children of Adam" some copies give "our father Adam." ccxi " Abu Nu'aym " is Abu Nu'aym Ahmad el Isfahani (948-1038 a.d.), the author of Hilyat el Anbiyd (" Ornament of the Prophets "). See Huart, p. 230.
ccxii It is very hard to decide what are the tribes intended. Probably
this list is quite valueless. For "Beni Huzayl" MSS. i and 3 give "Beni
HUDAYL."
MS. 3 gives "HAi" for "Helb," "KhalAf" for "HalAf," "NAsir" for "NAdir," "GhArid" for "KAfid," and adds one other (indecipher- able).
"EI Ag:hQri" is Sheikh el Islam Abu el Irshad 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Zayn el Din ibn Sheikh el Islam Abd el Rahman el Ag-huri, of the Maliki sect. He died in 1066 A. H. (1655-6 A.D. ). He wrote three com-
mentaries on "Khalil" (see Hagi Khalfa's Lexicon, Vol. v, p. 447). He occurs again in D 3, 22, and his great-grandfather in D 3, 157.
ccxiii Cp. A 2, xxx; A 11, vii and liii; D 2, i and D 6, xxvi; and cp. note to BA, clxxiii. See also V< 1. 1, p. 162, for this migration or its prototype.