'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.' [‎192] (353/612)

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THE IMAMS OP 'OMAN.
pardoned them, and they returned to their homes and restored
what had been destroyed. His conduct towards these people
was probably owing to their having resisted his indigo-
dyeing monopoly, and the measures which he had taken to
establish the innovation at Nezwa; but God knows.
But besides the above, the Imam began to introduce many
other innovations, to the detriment of his subjects, which
made him obnoxious to the people of ^Oman generally, and
their chiefs eventually took counsel together to confer the
Imamate upon his brother Kais. This course was agreed
upon at a meeting held at el-Masnaah, at which Kais and his
brothers Seif, Sultan, and Muhammad were also present.
From thence they proceeded to er-Rastak and encamped at
Kasra, where they summoned the Imam Said to appear
before them; he refused, but sent them a repast, and as the
utensils were being removed he opened fire upon them from
the guns of the fort, which drove them away, and all returned
to their respective homes.
Two years later a similar meeting was held by the repre
sentatives of the people of ^Oman to raise Kais, the son of
the Imam Ahmed, to the Imamate. They accordingly took
Kais to Nakhl, then under the governorship of Muhammad-
bin-Suleiman-bin-'Adiy, el-Yaaruby, who sent a lad out to
them with food, but refused to have an interview with them.
Thereupon they left Nakhl and dispersed, each one going to
his home.
When Hamed [the Imam Suid^s son] saw that the people
of ^Oman hated his father and were disgusted with his pro
ceedings, and moreover that his father persisted in his un
lawful innovations, he secretly conceived the idea of obtaining
possession of all the strongholds of 'Oman which were under
his father's authority, not forcibly, but by stratagem, and in
such a way as should not raise his father's suspicions. This
design, however, he disclosed to no one.
llamed was endowed with all the astuteness of an Arab,