8o NATIVE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE SUDAN iv. ab. c.
The passage in the Kuran alluded to is in Sura, vi {q.v. Sale, p. 92). cvi Cp. BA, XXXVIII.
El Termidhi is Abu 'fsa Muhammad el Tirmidhi, author of the Gama'i, an encyclopaedia of traditions throwing light on the law. He died in 892 A.D. (See Huart, p. 220.) By Ibn Daud is meant Abu Daud, one of the six great collectors and recorders of the Sunnite traditions, a contemporar}^ of el Termidhi.
cvii Cp. BA, XLii. cviii Cp. BA, XLi. Cix El Khazin is Sheikh 'Ala el Din 'Ali ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim
el Baghdadi el Sufi "el Khazin." He completed his great work Lubdb el
Tdwilfi ma'dni li tanzil (a Kuranic commentary') in 725 a.h. (1325 A.D.) : see Hagi Khalfa's Lexicon, Vol. v, p. 298. cx Cp. BA, xviii.
cxvi See note to BA, xxxvii. For ". . .was asked" AB gives JIw JI5 instead of \j J.*5 J15.
cxix See para, in (note).
cxxx The Arabic is as follows:
I cannot help thinking that a negative has dropped out, but the words quoted occur in the original, as in the later copies. The translation given of the last four words represents as nearly as possible the explanation of
them offered by the author's son.
"Malik" is Abu 'Abdulla Malik ibn Anas; and "Ahmad" is Abu 'Abdulla Ahmad ibn Hanbal, i.e. two of the four founders of the great orthodox sects of Sunnis.
cxxxi-cxxxii AB gives "Salim" instead of "Aslam" (BA, xlviii); and AB gives j^jliJI OlJCi^l instead of j^jIaJL) OlCu^l (BA, xlviii).
cxxxvii Cp. A3, XII, where almost all these names are spelt rather
differently. "Bag" may refer to the Bega; but otherwise I have no clue to the identity of these tribes. The original MS. gave Khabra: later copies taken from it give Gabra. Cp. C 9, 24.
CLXII From here onwards to ccx cp. A i. CLXVI Cp. BA, cxxxiii and cxxxvi. CLXVii Cp. BA, cxxxvii. CLXViii Cp. BA, CXXXVII and cxxxviii. CLXix Cp. BA, cxxxix.
CLXX The phrase "the general ancestor" (JXJI jt«h.) is very frequently applied to Serrar (for whom see note to BA, cxxxiv).
ccxiv "Muhammad" is presumably the son of Salah ibn Muhammad. In para. CLXXii the Terayfia were given as descendants of Terayf. Cp. BA, cxLi.
ccxviii Two or three illegible words follow at the end of this paragraph in the original MS.
ccxix In para, ccxiii these appear as w»ljt*c, but here as w^ljuU.