'History of the imâms and seyyids of 'Omân by Salîl-ibn-Razîk, from A.D. 661-1856; translated from the original Arabic, and edited with notes, appendices, and an introduction, continuing the history down to 1870, by George Percy Badger, F.R.G.S., late chaplain in the Presidency of Bombay.' [‎57] (90/612)

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succeeded shortly after in expelling Siilim, Sultan's eldest
son, whom he had made governor over the place, together
with all his adherents. They then fell on the inhabitants,
" seized their property, killed a great many of them, obliged
numbers to flee into other countries, and treated those who
remained on the island with every species of outrage and
indignity."
The Benu-Naim and Kutb, and their confederates the
Benu-Yas, tribes occupying the northern littoral, now threat
ened Sohar, then in the hands of Kais, who thereupon in
voked the assistance of his brother Sultan. On the arrival
of the latter, however, fearing lest his cooperation might be
purchased at the expense of his own position at Sohar,
Kais attempted to buy off the invaders. This offer having
been rejected, the army of the two brothers attacked the
Arabs at a place called ed-Dabbagh, and utterly routed
them.
A new and far more formidable enemy now appeared on
the horizon of 'Oman. Muhammad -ibn-'Abdu-'l-WaVhab,
the famous apostle of the sect still called by his name, was
dead, as was also Suud II, his first patron and the successful
defender and propagator of his doctrines throughout ISejd.
" Before he died," writes Mr. Palgrave, " he saw his autho
rity acknowledged from the shores of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. to
the frontiers of Mecca...But Saood, no less cautious than
enterprising, carefully avoided any encroachment on the
limits of the great powers in contact with his new empire.
The supremacy of Persia in Bahrein, and its protectorate in
Kateef, were respected by the Nejdean; Ebn-Saeed, 1 the
monarch or sultan of Oman, could complain of no aggres
sion, nor had the sacred frontiers of the Meccan Haram
been as yet violated, or any risk incurred of Turkish and
Egyptian animosity." On his death, about a.d . IbOO, he
1 Su'ud reigned during the Imamates of Ahmed-bin-Sa'id and his son
Sa'id-bin-Ahmed, not u Ebn-Sa'eod," as here stated.