"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." [‎١‎٥‎٩] (٦١٢/٣٢٠)

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my father to succeed him in his office. The document re
mained in my possession after my father's death until the
reign of Sultan, the son of the Imam Ahmed-bin-Said,
when my house took fire, a.h. 1216, [a.d. 1801,] and the
box in which it was kept was burnt, together with many
articles of furniture.
The following is auother instance of this Imam's liber
ality :—He instituted inquiries respecting the woman who
had congratulated him as Imam before he attained that
dignity, and finding that she was dead he recompensed her
relatives and made them an adequate allowance for their
maintenance during his lifetime.
He also rewarded the slaves of Seif-bin-Sultan who had
warned him to return to the shore when he went in his
boat to visit their master. From that time forward he
never saw Seif-bin-Sultan.
He also rewarded the el-Jibiir most handsomely, on his
accession to the government, for having abandoned Seif-
bin-Sultan and sided with him; and he further contracted
friendly alliances with them.
Before he was confirmed in the government he went to
Nezwa, where he was hospitably entertained by the sheikh
Salih-bin-Sabahiyyah. On his accession to power he amply
rewarded the sheikh by making him chief over the inhabit
ants of the Wadi-Nezwa.
He bountifully rewarded the woman in whose house he
hid himself at Yankal, and which he quitted in safety on
her telling him that Belarab -bin-Himyar had left the place.
Before he attained to supreme power he went one day
from 'Oman to Semiiil, where he had some business to
transact. When near the Wadi-Halfain the sun so over
powered him that he took shelter under a large tree. On a
subsequent occasion, after he had assumed the reins ot
government, he started from er-Rastak to go to ISezwa,
having with him a large retinue of slaves and freemen.