"تاريخ أئمة وأسياد عُمان بقلم سليل ابن رزيق، من ٦٦١-١٨٥٦ م، مترجم من الأصل العربي، ومُحرّر بملاحظات وملاحق ومقدمة تواصل التاريخ حتى سنة ١٨٧٠، بقلم جورج بيرسي بادجر، عضو في الجمعية الجغرافية الملكية والقس الراحل في رئاسة بومباي." [‎٥‎١] (٦١٢/٢١٢)

the imams op 'oman.
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guard; and when alone in his room in the fort of Behla, apart
from his chiefs and commons, the voice would speak and
say: " Enjoy thyself, O offspring of the en-Nebhan, a few
days longer, for thy rule will soon pass away: prepare for
death." One of the chiefs noticing his dejection inquired
the cause of it, and on being told what the voice had uttered,
he persuaded him to regard it as a delusion of the devil, and
advised him to set off at once for Nezwa, where he would
find what his heart desired and his eyes longed after. Where
upon he and his friends mounted their camels and departed
for Nezwa, and on arriving there alighted at the mansion-
house, which Suleiman-bin-Suleiman had caused to be con
structed for his own special accommodation. Early next
morning he saw a woman going to the canal of el-G hantalc,
and forthwith left his companion and followed her, she being
unaware of his presence. 15efore she had taken off her clothes
to bathe he fell upon her, but she fled pursued by him until
they both reached the quarter near the Wadi. In the mean
time Muhammad-bin-Ismail had come forth, and she appealed
to him for protection; whereupon he seized the aggressor
and plunged his dagger into his heart, killing him on the
spot. The rescued woman then entered the house while he
went and communicated the tidings to the people of el- Akr,
at which they were so much delighted that they and those
of the neighbourhood joined in making him Imam. Ihis
occurred a.h . 906 [ a.d. 1 500]. Muhammad-bin-Ismail walked
uprightly during his Imamate, and on his death his son,
BARAKAT-BIN-MUHAMMAD-BIN-ISMA'IL,
was appointed his successor, the selfsame day whereon his
father died. Then, on Saturday, ten days before the ex
piration of Muharram, a.h . 965 [ a.d . 1557], he left the foit
of Behla and went to Nezwa, whereupon Muhammad-bm-
Jufair-bin-'Aly-bin-Hiiai, el-Jabry, entered the former place.
(This was after the sultan, Sultan -bin-el-Muh sin -bin- Sulei-