"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎٠‎٨] (١٧٨٢/٨٥١)

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Various un
successful
attempts by
the Trucial
Shaikhs to
expel the
Wahbabis,
1850-51.
Sojonrn of
'Abdullah-
bin-Paisa!,
VVabhabi,
at Baraimi,
1853
of the Bani Yas under his own protection at Khor-al-'Odaid ; but this
intrigue failed in consequence of prompt and successful measures by
which the Abu Dhabi Shaikh obliged the seceders to return to their
homes and their allepiance.
In March 1850 Shaikh Sa^id-bin-Tahnun, who had since the peace
of 1849 been carrying on negotiations with Saiyid Thuwaini, regent of
Masqat, for a fresh attack on the Wahhabis, sent a contingent of 400
Bani Yas and Manasir to assist his ally in the defence of Shinas against
the Qawasim, and himself began an attack on the Wahhabi position at
Baraimi by destroying the irrigation channels of that settlement. An in
terruption of his operations was threatened by the collection at Dhaid of a
large force from Sharjah, Dibai, 'Ajman and Umm-al-Qaiwain ; but this
army having proceeded, after much discussion among the leaders, to
Batinah to take part in the struggle there between the Saiyids Thuwaini
and Qais, Shaikh Sa^id was left free to prosecute his desultory, and in
the end ineffectual, operations against Baraimi. In the following Novem
ber a combined but apparently fruitless attack was made by the
Qawasim, Bani Yas and Na'im upon the Kajdi garrison of Baraimi.
This attack was the precursor of a regular combination in 1S51 between
the Shaikhs of Sharjah and Abu Dhabi against the Wahhabis ; but the
alliance was due, on the part of Shaikh Sultan, merely to jealousy of the
favour now shown by the Wahhabis to the Shaikh of Dibai, and it was
barren of results.
In the spring of 1853 the Trucial Shaikhs, with the exception of
Sa id-bin-Buti of Dibai who deputed a relation to represent him, waited
in peison upon Abdullah-bin-Faisal, then recently arrived in Baraimi as
the representative of his father the "Wahhabi AmTr ; and so assiduous were
tlK \ in their attentions to him, and in their rivalry for his good graces,
that the presence of all upon the coast was not secured without some
difficult) by Captain Kemball, when he arrived there in May 1853 for the
purpose of concluding a Perpetual Treaty of Peace. The principal object
of Abdullah-bin-Faisal during his stay at Baraimi was, as explained in
the history of the Oman Sultanate, to wring the utmost possible con-
cessions fiom the unfortunate ruler of Masqat,— a policy in which, need
less to say, he was warmly encouraged by Shaikh Sultan of Sharjah.
Shaikh Said of Abu Dhabi, on the other hand, exerted himself to prevent
an invasion of Batinah by the Wahhabi and Qasimi forces, such as was
pioposed and at one time all but undertaken ; and the terms of peace,
e most favouiable that Abdullah could be persuaded to grant, were
arranged at Sohar by the instrumentality of this chief and of a certain