'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.' [‎299] (460/612)

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upon Malik-bin-Seif opened fire upon them with a gun which
he had brought from Nakhl and posted in the outer Hujrah.
Then one of the Nizariyyah, with a party of the Nakhl people,
having seized the market-place of ezh-Zhahir, there was a
hand-to-hand fight between Mdtlak's forces and the el-
Maawal, which resulted in the submission of the latter to
Malik-bin-Seif, whom they solemnly swore to obey. After
he had sent back the gun to Nakhl, Muhammad-bin-Nasir
and Miitlak-el-Mutairy, with their respective forces, went to
Semiiil, and surrounded the inhabitants of the el-'Alayat,
drove them from their posts on the heights and seized their
Hujrahs, plundering them of all that they contained. Most
of the posts they destroyed; the remainder they made over
to the Benu-Jabir. Then Mutlak and Hamid-bin-Nasir left
by way of el-'Akk, and when they reached el-''Ainein, Hamid
remained there and Mutlak went on to el-Bereimy. Mean
while, Muhammad-bin-Nasir's force invested the fort of
Semliil, he himself taking up his residence in the house
which he had built at Sittal. (The fort at that time was held,
on behalf of the Seyyid Said, by 'Ismail, the Belooch; he
belonged to the Al-Durrah-bin-Jumaah, el-Belushy, and
had a garrison with him consisting of eighty Belooches and
twenty of the Seyyid Said's manumitted slaves. Attached
to them also was a man of the Alayat-Semiiil, named
Dzuhail -bin-Salim, edz-Dzuwaiby, who was employed in
carrying intelligence to the beyyid Said respecting the gar
rison and the movements of M^uhammad-bm-Nasir s foices.
He used to mix with them at night, and was never recog
nized. One day he came to the Seyyid, and said : " Send an
energetic man to the fort, for the Belooches and sln\ cs ha\ o
lost heart, and many of them having died ot small-pox and
dropsy I fear lest they may be compelled to surrender to
Muhammad-bin-Nasir." Just at this time 'Aly-bin-Talib-
bin-Muhenna, Al-Bu-Saidy, happened to have come on a visit
to the Seyyid Said. He was the Seyyid's Wali at Nezwa,