III. 6. II. THE KENANA and DEGHAYM 331

7. Abu Rihan 1

' r^ , 1 Chiefly in the Gezi'ra. 9. GiLAYRAB I ^

J 10. Baylab Asala'a^

I. Awlad GuberAn \

o >'- ' Chiefly in the Gezira. A few in Su UDIA r ^T \ c. 3 4. 'Amaria

5. Awlad Rishayd D. Da'udia

I. Manasir

{a) Nas Hamduk E. Fahria F. 'Alowna^

Kordofan.

Chiefly in the Gezira.

II The tradition is that the ancestor of the Kenana^

was el Sayyid Ahmad Zabacf el Bahr, a "fekir" of Mekka, descended from Hamza the youngest son of the Prophet's grandfather 'Abd el MuttaUb. After his death one of his sons, Mansur, quarrelled with the

other sons as to the succession and left Mekka for Egypt with his younger brother 'Abdullahi. Hence he was nicknamed "El Hardan" (one who

sulks and isolates himself). From Egypt Mansur passed up the Nile to

the Sudan. The GAMu'iA...and the Mahass of Dongola each provided him with a wife and he begot six sons, Yasin, 'Ali Abu el Fahra, Hammad

Asla'a, Sowar, Idris Serag and 'Alwan. These were the forefathers of the

sections of Kenana now in the Sudan, excepting the Da'udia who are descended from 'Abdullahi.

The Seragab section of the Kababish are also said to be descended from Idris Serag....

The earliest Kenana arrivals in the Sudan are said to have settled

finally at Gebel Kurun, south of Tekali, and subsequently to have come

into conflict with a party of Kawahla settled in the neighbourhood, and

to have driven them to the south. According to the Kenana "nisba" Mansur lived sixteen generations ago and seventeen generations after 'Abd el MuttaUb.

Thus it would seem that*

some Kenana emigrated from Arabia into Egypt about the beginning

of the fourteenth century, and pushed their way up the river as far as Dongola, and there temporarily settled and intermarried, and later split

into various sections, of whom a part went south with their kinsmen and

a part eventually attached themselves to the Kababish.

^ Burckhardt mentions Asala'a ("Aszale, aJLs'^r') in Wadai and west of it

{Nubia, pp. 479-480).

- The same name occurs among the Kababish and the Beni Helba.

* The following quotation is from my Tribes..., p. i68.

* Ibid., p. 186.