"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." [‎١‎٢‎٥] (٦١٢/٢٨٦)

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According to another account he marched from el-Harady
to el-Hazm, where he remained a few days and then went
on to ezh-Zhahirah, halting a short time at el-Ghabby,
from whence he proceeded to \ ankal, the fort of which he
besieged, because its garrison and the people of the town
refused to recognize him. Having continued the siege for
a long time, one of the inhabitants, named ; Isam, the wall
of whose house joined that of the fort, came and told him
that his present efforts would be unsuccessful. " What
must I do," asked Muhammad, ' f to effect my object?"
After describing the position of his house, the man said:
I will come to you three nights hence and admit you into
my house unawares to the garrison. When there, you can
make an opening through the wall by which it will be easy
for you to effect an entrance into the fort." Muhammad
having agreed to this proposal, on the appointed night his
men made their way into the fort, and falling suddenly on
the garrison put many of them to the sword; the remainder
submitted. Thereupon Muhammad occupied the fort, and
the people of Yankal who dwelt near it, as also those at a
distance, did homage to him, and he amnestied them. He
remained at Yankal many days. !None now ventured to
oppose him either in ezh-Zhahirah, or among the people of
el-Jauf, or throughout the territory of 'Oman: all submitted
to him with the exception of K half-bin-Xasir and his
partisans.
Then Muhammad summoned all the Hadhr and Arabs
who had given him their allegiance, and he also wrote to
the Benu-Yas and their Arab allies, to the Benu-Naim and
the Benu-Kutb and their respective confederates, and col
lected together a large army, with which he marched to
Sohar, taking with him Seif-bin-bultan and all the cl-
Yaarubah. Sohar immediately submitted to him, and ho
encamped his army in the Hallet -esh-Shiaah, where all the
people of the villages dependent on Sohar came to do him