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AB (NOTES)

II The term "Wali" is a title given to a holy man after death. The reverence paid to them and to their tombs is based on Chapter x (63) of the Kuran (see Sell, p. 109, and Hughes, p. 663).

III The term Ga'al el Dufar apparently relates exclusively to those Ga'aliyyun who are descended from Salah: see paras, xxxiii and ccxiv. For the versification of the pedigree see para. XLVi. IV Only one of the alleged authorities mentioned in this and the two following paragraphs is known to me: this is Salim ibn Muhammad el

Sanhuri, who was a commentator on the Mukhtasar of Khalil ibn Ishak el Gindi. He died in 1015 a.h. (1606 a.d.) and is mentioned in Hagi

Khalfa's Lexicon (Vol. v, p. 447). Cp. D 3, No. 195.

It is a common practice of these Sudan genealogists to cull from the works of mediaeval authors certain pious remarks and details of informa-

tion as to the pedigrees of contemporaries of the Prophet, and, after in-

corporating this in their own work among innumerable genealogical details derived from entirely different sources, and even from mere hearsay, to quote the mediaeval authors as authority for the whole. The author of AB hovers between this and the more candid policy (paras, vii, viii, and xxvii).

xxi See Wiistenfeld (W). Two sons are omitted.

xxii Um Kulthum was el Fadl's only child.

'Abdulla had eight children, including those given : See Wiistenfeld (W). xxiii 'Obaydulla and el Fadl are not shown by Wiistenfeld as having any descendants at all. 'Ali had 17 children. xxvi Cp. BA, XV and D 5 (c), xviii. xxix Cp. BA, cxxxv; A 2, in ; A 8, ix. XXX Also quoted in BA, ccxxix. The Arabic is:

XXXV, xxxvi, xxxvii I have not met with any of these three condemned versions.

xxxix This, with certain variations, is the account most commonly

accepted. Abu el Dis is omitted by error between Kerdam and Buda'a. For Buda'a a common variant is Kuda'a. Cp. the trees of BA and MSS. A I to A II, and the note on para, cxxxiii of BA, from which it appears that the version here referred to may be BA or an older copy of BA.

XL I have not met with this version. Hasin occurs in A 9. Cp. however

D 6, II for "Ga'al el Aswad" ("the black'').

XLiii, XLiv There is little doubt that the author has chosen this pedigree because he did not like the look of such non-Arab names as Hatil and Yatil, and because, there being many variants of the names between Abu

el Dis and Sa'ad he thought the best way would be to omit them all. The result of course is that there are far too few generations between the author