'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.' [‎292] (453/612)

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THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN.
for Bedr. The messenger forthwith summoned the garrison
to leave the fort, adding, " for the man is dead who placed
you there." They obeyed immediately, whereupon the Seyyid
Said committed it to the safe keeping of the Belooches of
the Al-Durrah-bin-Jumaah, el-Bel Ashy, and then proceeded
with his escort to Mdskat. The inhabitants generally did
not hear of the occurrence until the morning of the follow
ing day. As to Hilal-bin-Hamed and the esh-Sharkiyyah,
when they knew for certain that it was the Seyyid Said who
had killed Bedr they returned at once to their respective
homes, and Hilal-bin-Hamed-bin-el-Imam went to Habra.
After the Seyyid Said's departure for Maskat the notables of
Barkah went out and took up the corpse of Bedr, prayed
over him, and then buried him in the field.
Two days after the Seyyid Said's return to Maskat, Muham-
mad-bin-JSTasir, el-Jabry, and Malik-bin-Seif, el-Yaaruby,
and Sirhan-bin-Suleiman, el-Jabry, and Najtm-bin-'Abdal-
lah, es-Seyyaby, arrived there at about sunset, with their
respective followers. They halted near the castle of er-
lliwayah, and sent a messenger to inform the Seyyid Said of
their arrival, and where they were. His written reply was:
"Return this very night to your several homes, for I am
apprehensive lest our slaves and soldiers, who have a secret
love for Bedr, may attack you. I am also anxious about
Semiiil, lest 'Aly-bin-Hilal and his men, and his allies of the
el-Yemeniyyah, the Arabs of esh-Sharkiyyah, should invade
it." They quite understood from this reply that he did not
want them to remain at M^Lskat, so they all left that same
night for their respective districts.
Then the Seyyid Said wrote to his uncle Kais apprising
him of what he had done to Bedr. (Now it was notorious
that Kais hated Bedr intensely on account of his intimacy
with the Wahhabis, and for having seceded from the creed
of the el-Ibadhiyah to their sect.) Whereupon an open recon
ciliation took place between Kais and his brother Sultanas
children.