'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.' [‎13] (174/612)

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THE IMAMS OF OMAN.
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dations on the coast, but he succeeded in exterminating
them. The author of this statement says that these Bawqrih
are what the vulgar call Zawdrik, and the Imam Ghassan
was the first to attack them. In his time, also, Sukar-bin-
Muhammad-bin-Zayidah was slain. He was one of those
who had supported Rashid-bin-en-Nadhr, el-Julandy and
his adherents, aiding them with money and arms. The cir
cumstances of his death were as follows :—One of the esh-
Shark had set out to attack the Mussulmans, accompanied
by the Benu-Hinah and other confederates in his insurrec
tionary designs. Moreover, it was reported to the Mussul-
vessels equipped for war. El-Beladzory, in his chapter on the Con
quest of Sind, mentions a predatory people near the mouths of the
Indus who possessed ships of this class and name. The passage, as
illustrative of the early piracies in the Eastern seas, is interesting. The
incidents narrated occurred about a.ix 705, while el-IIajjaj was governor
of 'Irak, with a lieutenant under him over Mekran. " During his
government, the King of the island of el-Yakut [Rubies: Ceylon?]
sent him some Mussulman women, born in his country, whose fathers
had been merchants and were dead. But the ship in which they were
being conveyed was attacked by a party of the Med [?] tribe of ed-
Daibul on board of Bawdrij, and they seized the ship and all it con
tained. Thereupon one of the women—she was of the Benu-Yarbua'—
exclaimed, 'O Hajjaj!' El-Hajjaj hearing of this said, 'I am here!'
and thereupon sent to Dahir, [the native prince,] requesting him to
obtain the release of the women ; but Dahir replied that those who had
seized them were robbers, over whom he had no authority. Then el-
Hajjuj directed Obeid-Allah-bin-Nebhan to go against ed-Daibul.
"Obeid-Allah, having been killed, el-Hajjaj wrote to Budail-bin-Tahfah,
el-Bajaly, who was then in "Oman, ordering him to proceed [by sea] to
ed-Daibul. On arriving there, his horse threw him, and the enemy
surrounded and slew him. Others say that he was killed by the Zatts
of el-Bud-hah." There is much uncertainty about the latter word.
Goeje remarks in a note that Anderson suggests " el-Burhah, the well-
known Burhoee or Buroohee tribe." Fuiilh-el-Bulddn, pp. 435-6. For
a fuller account of the Bawriaj, see the Journal Asiatique for September
1844, p. 262.
Ed-Daibul, according to Abulfeda was 14 situated on the bank of
the Sind river, on the seacoast. It is a small town, and the heat there
is great. It abounds in sesame seed, and imports dates from el-Basrah,"
etc. Takwtm-el-Bnlddn , p. 195. Dresden, 1846.