'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.' [‎175] (336/612)

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there, was as follows :—When, as we have already narrated,
the sheikh 'Abdallah-bin-Salih, er-Ruwahy, had retired with
his followers, as also the sheikhs of the el-Maawal and their
men, none remaining before Nakhl but the Zidgals and some
of the people of er-Rastak, who continued to do much mis
chief to the country by cutting down the date and other
trees, a number of men from the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. of the Benu-Ghafir
and also from the people of el-Hazm came to the assistance
of Muhammad-bin-Suleiman. Thus timely reinforced, the
latter attacked the er-Rastak contingent and their allies the
Zidgals, who, on being surrounded by the assailants, asked
for quarter, which was gi'anted them, the conditions being
that they should evacuate the Beit-esh-Sharihah and the
towers, taking their arms with them. These terms being
accepted they departed from Nakhl.
As to Shamis-bin-Muhammad, en-Naimy, when he left
Nakhl he went to the Imam Ahmed-bin-Said at er-Rastak,
and begged pardon for his raid upon el-Matrah. Out ot
compassion for the people of 'Oman and the critical state of
the country, agitated as it was by contentions, as also in
consideration of the insecurity of the roads, which otherwise
might be occupied by marauding Arabs to the injury of
those who traversed them in search of profit; and, further,
in order to arrest the shedding of blood by those lawless
people—upon these and such like considerations the Imam
was induced to pardon him.
At this period the Imam, hearing of the revolt of the el-
Yaarubah of el-Hazm, whose chief at that time in succession
to Zuhran-bin-Seif was his brother Malik-bin-Seif, he mus
tered a force from er-Rastak and elsewhere with which he
surrounded their fort, and then opened fire upon it with his
guns, but the shot did no damage, owing to the hardness
of the stones and mortar of the building. Ihe besiegers
perceiving this were seized with disgust, and despairing of
success many of them left without the permission of the