'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.' [‎207] (368/612)

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Sultan, and as Hamed felt that he was similarly situated a
truce was agreed upon between him and his uncle Sultan,
each promising not to molest the other.
Then Hamed made an incursion into the Wadi A seasonal or intermittent watercourse, or the valley in which it flows. -es-Sahtan,
returning to Maskat after he had razed its towers and coerced
its inhabitants. He next went to Barkah, from whence he
proceeded with a few followers to Nezwa, and there began
to levy soldiers from esh-Sharkiyyah, the Arabs of el-
Batinah, and the chiefs of Azka and its dependencies, in
forming none of its object except the Benu-Kelban, with
whom he arranged about the time when they were to join him
against Behla, to which place he moved as soon as he had
collected a large army. (The fort of Behla was then in the
hands of Rashid-bin-Malik, el-^Obry, the Sahib of el-'Iraky,
between whom and the Benu-Kelban there was a grudge,
which had induced them to suggest to Hamed the attack on
Behla.) Their combined forces entered the place before
daybreak, unknown to Rashid-bin-Malik, who had only a
small garrison with him in the fort. On hearing an outcry
in the town he rushed to the tower on the wall, which some
of the Benu-Kelban had seized, and blew them up with gun
powder, not one of them escaping. He then attacked Hiimed's
camp in detail, and nearly succeeded in driving all his fol
lowers out of the town, although his party did not exceed
seven men. Such is the account of my informant, and I
have never hoard it contradicted. It is further stated that
when Rashid was eventually slain, only one man, named
Simman, remained fighting by his side. On taking posses
sion of the fort, Hamed made it over to the Benu-Hinah, and
then returned with his troops towards Maskat, but on reach
ing the Birkat-et-Talah he was attacked from one of the
towers in the road by the solitary guard, a man of the
Benu-Riyam, who occupied it. This man succeeded in
shooting several of the force, and when he had expended
his shot he charged his musket with pieces of the iron chain