'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.' [‎103] (264/612)

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Yaarub-bin-Belarab he mustered his array and gave the
coraraand to sheikh Salih-bin-Muhammad-bin-Khalf, es-
Saliray, and ordered hira to march on er-Rastak. The latter
proceeded as far as the town of el-'Awaby, but finding that
there was no chance of his being able to force an entrance
into er-Rastak he returned to Nezwa. On the other hand,
Belarab-bin-Nasir wrote to the then Wali of Maskat,
Hirayar-bin-Munir-bin-Suleiraan, er-Riyamy, to surrender
that place to hira, which he accordingly did. The town of
Nakhl also was surrendered without opposition. Next, the
same party dispatched an array under Malik-bin-Seif-bin-
Majid, el-Yaaruby, to Semail, which he captured without
hostilities, and the Benu-Ruwahah 1 having accompanied him
1 The Benu-Ruwahah, who have been already mentioned at p. 55, are,
I conceive, the representatives of a tribe of the same name who derive
their origin from Ruwahah, (born about a.d . 450,) the father of one of
the branch families of his progenitor el-'Abs, a descendant of 'Admin
through Ghatafan and Kais-'Ail&n, and therefore of the same stock as
the en-Nizar (see note, p. 3) and the el-Kuraish. They were settled in
Nejd, on the confines of the Ilijaz, but do not figure in Arab history
till towards the middle of the sixth century, when Zuhair-bin-Jadzimah,
one of their number, was the recognized head of all the Benu-Ghatafan.
The murder of the eldest son of Zuhair by the Benu-Gh&ny, a branch of
the 'Amir-bin-Sa'asa'ah, on his way home after having conducted his
sister as a bride to Nu'mjin, king of el-IIirah, and the dispute which
subsequently arose under Kais, his son and successor, between the el-
'Abs and the Benu-Zhubyan, a kindred tribe, about the famous race of
the two horses, Dahis and Ghabra, led to a series of " Days" or Battles
between the el-'Abs, the el-Ghatafan, the er-Ruwahah, the Benu-'Amir
and several other tribes, which lasted for upwards of forty years, and
form the theme of some of the most chivalrous and romantic of Arab
ante-Islamitic stories. On the reestablishment of peace between the
contending parties Kais-bin-Zuhair refused to participate in it. Ac
cording to several original authorities quoted by M. de Perceval, he
afterwards embraced Christianity and eventually went to Oman, where
he died. See Hist, des Arabes, vol. ii. pp. 411, 419, 459 et seq.; also,
I resnel's Premiere Lettre sur VHistoire des Arabes avant VIslamisme,
Paris, 1836, for some interesting details of these "Days" of the Arabs
of Nejd at that period.
Mr. Walker, in his map of Arabia, locates the Benu-Ruwahah about
thirty miles to the southward of M&skat, between " Jebel Felluh" and