134 THE PROGRESS THROUGH EGYPT ii. i. vi
denoriiinations, the Zubayb^ and the Beni Kumayl^, and held many
towns in fief^.
It appears from el Makrizi's treatise that the subsections known
collectively as the Zubayb were the Beni Kurra*, the Beni Zayd,
the Beni Bu'ga^, and the Beni Suwayd^. Among the Beni Kumayl
INIakn'zi includes, firstly, the "Beni Sa'ad," the descendants, that is,
of the five Sa'ads mentioned in Wiistenfeld's tree'; secondly, the
Beni Rashid^; thirdly, the Halaba"; fourthly, the Beni 'Ukba^'';
fifthly, the Aidh^^; sixthly, the Beni Zayd Menat.
Of the Beni 'Ukba some were in Syria, round about Damascus^^ and others round Ai'la^^. The rest were in the Hauf.
It seems that some of these latter at some time or another joined
the Beni Hilal^*, and others, we shall see, eventually found their way
to northern Kordofan and became the nucleus of the Kababish
tribe.
Another section of Gudham, closely related to the Halaba and
the Beni 'Ukba and represented in Egypt, were the Beni Rudayni^^.
Now the term Beni Kumayl, it seems, properly applied only to all
^ Wiistenfeld, "Dhobeib"; Quatremere, "Dabib." Wiistenfeld follows a
definite system of orthography, which Quatremere does not. In quoting the former I aher the spelling to suit the orthography I have followed throughout.
- Quatremere, " Kemil."
^ See Makrizi, ap. Quatremere (ll, 193, 194).
* We shall meet with Beni Kurra again as a branch of Beni Hilal settled at Barka among the Ketama Berbers prior to the Beni Hilal invasion of N. Africa.
It is useless to speculate as to whether there is any connection between the two or
not. Probably there was. (See later, sub Beni Hilal, and compare the case of the Beni 'Ukba.)
^ Quatremere, " Badjah." * Quatremere, " Souid."
' Makrizi obviously means that the term Beni Sa'ad had five different connota-
tions according to the particular Sa'ad referred to. It is clear from the tree that some of the five included others. There are some slight discrepancies between Wiistenfeld and Makrizi here: e.g. the latter {ap. Quatremere) speaks of Sa'ad ibn Afsa instead of Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Afsa, and Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Mdlik instead of Sa'ad ibn Malik ibn Zayd Menat.
* There were three descendants of Suwayd called Rashid, and "Beni Rashid" was probably used in the same way as was " Beni Sa'ad."
* These Makrfzi divides into Halaba ibn Suwayd and Halaba ibn Bug'a. If Wiistenfeld is correct the former should be Halaba ibn Malik ibn Suwayd.
^^ Quatremere, "Akabah."
^^ They lived between Cairo and Ada (Makrfzi, ap. Quatremere, n, 194). Aidh
('Aids) does not occur in Wiistenfeld as a section of Gudham.
^* So, too, Ibn Khaldun, 9-1 1. They reached as far south as Medina. There are
still a few families of them round Muwayla.
^^ Afla, or 'Akabat Afla, was the mediaeval name. It is the Elath of ancient
times, the 'Akaba of the present. (See Muir, Life of Mahomet, p. Ixxviii, and Burton, Land of Midian, i, 231 .)
''' Makrfzi {ap. Quatremere, 11, 201) speaks of the Beni 'Ukba among the Beni
Hilal sections and as living at 'Asfun and Esna. By Leo's time the Beni 'Ukba had become a main section of Beni Hilal {q.v. later).
'* Quatremere, " Benou Radiny."