ملف رقم ٢١٨٢ لسنة ١٩١٣، الجزء ٥، "منطقة نجد بالجزيرة العربية: سياسة ابن سعود" [و‎‎٣‎٣‎٦] (٣٠٨/٢٤٧)

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Relations between Ibn Sa'ud and th e 'Aimi
and the recent history of the latter.
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'ijM* towards Ibn Sa'ud, with
whon they were fornerly on good terns,appears to date from
the expulsion of the Turks from the Hasa and the extension
of Ibn Sa'ud's authority over that province,which is the
headquarters of the 'AinTan tribe. Ibn Sa’u'd stopped then
fronts taking the black nail which they used to exact^ m
the tine c£ the Turks on those who passed through their
country, and he also attempted to put a poll tax upon them.
Ibn Sa'ud expM ned in 1915 that their revolt against him
was due to the fact that they were pro-Turk and that Ibn
Rashid had bribed them with Turkish money, but Shaikh
Mubarak of Kuwait was of opinion that there was no evidence
to support either of these statements. The 'Ajman found
allies in a rebellious section of Ibn Sa’ud’s own house,
the 'Araif whose entity with the Hakim of Najd was an old
family matter. In 1914 a half-hearted attempt was made to
settle it through Shaikh 'Isa ibn Ali of Bahrain, but
negotiations were broken off by the ’Araif who said that Sh
Shaikh 'Tsa was favouring Ibn Sa'ud.
In June 1915 it was repo- ted from Bahrain that Ibn
Sa'ud had arrived in t he Hasa and was collecting men to
fight the 'Ajman. He was pressed for money and had
borrowed fron Shaikh Isa*
In a letter to the Political Agent at Bhhrain dated
July 8, Ibn Sa'ud complained that Ilandan ibn Zaid al
Kbalifah, Shaikh of Abu Dhabi w«S* harbouring and Helping
the ’Araif ( who intedded to join the 'Ajman against him.
He said that his friendship with us was the reason for