"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." [‎١‎٥‎٦] (٦١٢/٣١٧)

15G
BOOK THE SECOND.
F eom A hmed-bin- S a'id
to his grandson the S e YYID S a^id-bin- S u LTAN -bin- A hmed.
[a.h. 1154—1236 = a.d. 1741—1820.]
The author of this hook, the undeserving Saltl-hin-Raztlc, who
prays that God may avert all evil and calamity from him
and from the Muslims generally, makes the following de
claration :—One of the aged sheikhs informed me that the
administration of'Oman having devolved upon Ahmed-hin-
Sa'id, and its people having testified their loyalty to 1dm,
the chiefs of er-Rastdk, together with all the other chiefs of
'Oman, assembled together and agreed to confer the Imdmate
upon Ahu-Hildl, 1 the great, the excellent, the most glorious
AHMED-BIN- S A'lD,
bin-ahmed-bin-muhammad,
es- S a'idy, 2 el- A zdt, el-^ O many ;
by religion, an upright ^ibadhy.
The following are some of the preternatural events related
to me by one of the aged chiefs, a contemporary of Ahmed-
1 That is, the Father of Ilil&l, Ahmed's eldest son. It is considered
courteous among the Arabic-speaking people of the East, Christians as
well as Muslims, to drop a man's ordinary name on the birth of an heir,
and to call him the Father of his firstborn. This is sometimes done, in
the case of elderly men, while they are yet childless. In the event of
their becoming fathers, they are bound to recognize the courtesy by
giving their eldest sons the names which the goodwill of society had
conferred upon them by anticipation.
2 Es-Sa'idy, that is, of the tribe of Sa'id, a branch of the el-Azd.
The appellative assumes several forms in this narrative :— BH-Sa'id and