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ahmed-bin-sa'id.
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"Why have you resigned this matter [the Imamate] to others,
which of right belongs to you. You fought for it against
Seif-bin-Sultan, el-Yaaruby, and also against the Imam
Sultan-bin-Murshid, el-Yaaruby, who were your near rela
tives : you did not sheath your sword from them, and your
name was dreaded by the people of ^Oman, and they sub
mitted to you ? How is it that you are so submissive after
such exaltation ?"—to which they added many more words
to the same effect. He replied : By Allah ! nothing but
want of means has withheld me from coming forward in that
behalf." Thereupon they promised to provide him with men
and money to support his claims, on condition that he prose
cuted them. He asked for a few days^ delay before giving
a decided answer, but he continued to hesitate, notwith
standing their urgent solicitations, until a fierce war broke
out between the Imam Ahmed-bin-Said and the people of
es-Sir, at el-Bithnah. The latter had mustered a large
force with which they intended to invade Sohar; these the
Imam Ahmed-bin-Said encountered at el-Bithnah, and a
great many were slain on both sides, whereupon the people
of es-Sir returned home, and the Imam's soldiers retired to
Sohar, but the Imam rode onward till he reached the out
skirts of Y^nkal, where he alighted to walk, leading his she-
camel. Noticing an old woman in advance of him, he
stopped her and inquired to what Arabs she belonged.
She replied, " To those of Yankal; all my relations are
dead, and I am reduced to great poverty, insomuch that I
live apart from the people, and I am ashamed to beg."
"Have you a house?" he asked. "She answered, "Yes;
but it is a very wretched one." He replied, " Hide me in it,
and let no one know; I am Ahmed-bin-Said." He then
gave her money and concealed himself in her house, taking
nothing with him but his arms and his money from the
saddle-bags, and letting the she-camel go loose with all its
equipage. (Ahmed's object was to find out whether there

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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 The name given to each of the three divisions of the territory of the East India Company, and later the British Raj, on the Indian subcontinent. of Bombay.

Author: Hamid ibn Muhammad ibn Ruzayq

Publication details: London: Printed for the Hakluyt Society

Physical Description: initial roman numeral pagination (i-cxxviii); with map.

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Arab.D.490
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'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.'
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front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:20, 1:128, 1:436, 1:8, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
Author
Ḥamīd ibn Muḥammad Ibn Ruzayq xx Salil ibn Razik
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