'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.' [‎58] (219/612)

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the imams op 'oman.
not been there long when Muhammad-bin-Jufair, el-Jabry,
surrounded Nakhl and took all but the fort. On hearing
thereof the Imam went against him with an army composed of
the el-Maawal and other tribes, and after putting Muhammad-
bin-Jufair's army to flight he returned to er-Rastak. He
had only been there a few days when the sheikh Khamis-bin-
liuwaishid came to solicit his aid against ezh-Zhahirah; he
accordingly collected a large force and accompanied it to
es-Sakhbary, where the men of es-Sirr and the edh-Dhaha-
hakah joined him, and from, thence he proceeded to the fort
of el-Ghabby, which was garrisoned by the Benu-Hilal 1 and a
number of Bedu and Iladhr There was a fierce engage
ment between the two parties, in which Ja/id-bin-Murshid,
the Imam's brother, was slain, and the troops of the Benu-
Hilal fled; nevertheless the Imam could not prevail against
the fort. He then went and seized 'Obra, and afterwards
and ed-Dair, El-Imry begat el-Kdmar, [from whom in all probability
the Bay of el-Kamar takes its name], and el-Kamra, and el-Masdlla, and
el-Masaka. Ihe Benu-Riyam belong to the el-Kamar tribes: they in
habit a town on the coast of the sea of "Om&n, and they also possess a
strong mountain in 'Oman, which is called the Mountain of the Benu-
Riyam and also Jebel-Rudhwan." Wellsted gives an account of them
and of the mountains which they occupy in his Travels in Arabia,
vol. i. pp. 129-61.
1 The Benu-Hilal I take to be the descendants of Ililal, one of the
four sons of 'Amir-bin-Sa'asa'ah (born about a.d . 381), a descendant of
Ma'add and 'Adnan through Khasafah, the son of Kais-'Ailan. The
other sons were Ghdny, Nu'man and Rabia'. They became the heads of
four families, called after their names, which originally settled in the
Hijaz, to the eastward of the mountains which separate the Tihamah
from Nejd, but subsequently migrated farther into the interior. The
author's narrative describes the Benu-Hilal at this time as located at
el-IIasa, but what led them thither I have failed to ascertain. Their
Ma'addic origin accounts for their enmity towards the el-Ya'arubah, the
el-Yemeny Imfims of 'Oman.
2 The Bedu are the pastoral and the Hadhr the town or village-dwell-
ing Arabs. Pocock translates the names Nomades et Urbani, and gives
some interesting notices of the origin and import of the terms. Speci
men Hist. Arab., pp. 88-90.