"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." [‎٣‎٣‎٨] (٦١٢/٤٩٩)

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THE IMAMS OF 'OMAN.
Dufafaah, the people of which appeased him with a large
sum of money. Before Hamld's arrival at Khadhra the
Seyyid had dispatched Hilal-bin-Hamed-bin-el-lmam-Said,
with eighty horsemen, to assist the people against him,
but Hilal hearing on the way that matters had been made
up between the two parties returned to Bai-kah, and re
ported what had occurred to the Seyyid. On Hamid-bin-
Nasir^s return to el-'Aineiu he dismissed his force and died
a few days after.
The people of Nakhl having complained against Suwailim,
the Seyyid superseded him by sending Said-bin-Seif-bin-
Said to take his place.
Then the Seyyid, on heai'ing that Battal-el-Mutairy had
come to el-Bereimy with a large cavalry force, ordered
Muhammad-bin-Nasir to attack him. Muhammad accord
ingly surrounded him, whereupon Battal came to terms
with the Seyyid through Muhammad-bin-Nasirand Suwailim-
bin-Salim, and agreed to raze the fort. When that was done,
he went to the Seyyid Said, who promoted him and did him
great honour.
Next, the Seyyid Said having heard that Muhammad-bin-
^Alyhad induced many of the inhabitants of Jaalan to adopt
his creed, 1 and that the people of esh-Sharkiyyah had sub
mitted to him,—moreover, that all the Benu-Hasan of Fdlj-
el-Mashayikh had become converts to his doctrines, and
that his followers among the people of el-Ashkharah 3 had
plundered many English ships which were wrecked at el-
Ashkharah,—he applied to the English to aid him in an ex
pedition against Muhammad-bin-^Aly and his confederates.
They did so without delay, and came in large and small
1 This chief appears to have seceded from the tenets of the Ibadhiyah
and to have adopted those of the Wahhabis.
2 The name of a large village on the coast below Ras-el-Hadd, con
taining about two hundred houses and one thousand inhabitants, most
of whom belong to the Benu-Abi-'Aly tribe.