Derbend-nämeh or the History of Derbend. 499 
Suleimän, the son of Rabïrah Al-Babïli; and in the version of St. Petersburg, [Ibrahim the son of 
Ghias, is said, to have been the historian who related the expedition of Selmän; it is there saïd: 
af Cp po Lel LE le Colas. — These two circumstances clearly show the errors mto which the 
copyists of the Derbend-nâmeh were led: 1) by taking a person, to whom the narration of a fact is at- 
tributed, for the person to whom is ascribed the fact itself: 2) by writing 424 ys LL with the 
conjunction instead of 42 y ils without the conjunclion; the first of which means Selmän and 
Rabia ; and the second, Selmän, the son of Rabia, In our MS., as well as in that of Berlin, there is 
no mention whatever of Ibrahim in the course of the description of the expedition, except in 
the beginning, to which we have referred the reader. 
All these circumstances end to prove that the leader of the Musulmans in this expedition was 
UJ] 42 y LE Selmän the son of Rabrah Al-Bahili alone, as it is said in the history of 
Ibnu-]-A’asam. I shall lay before the reader, in the appendix to this work (see Extract IL.), 
an extract from the description of this expedition made by that author, with an English trans- 
lation of the same which in many points will serve to illustrate this chapter of the Der- 
bend-nimeh. | 
Remark 2. page #93. 
In Klaproth’s version and in that of St. Petersburg nothing is said about the Khalif; 
in the latter it is stated 02 y 5° U2> (% which must be 02» ÿ_S US SS «in (the year) 
&1. of the flight of the Prophet», just as we read in the translation of Klaproth. In the his- 
tory of Zbnu-l-a'asam and others, this expedition is attributed to the reign of Othman, the 
34 Khalif, 1. e. at least 10 years before the period referred to by our author. The reason of 
this anachronism, and of the double mistake in our version, may be the following: MHo'avieh 
(the founder of the dynasty of Umayieh, viceroy of Syria during the reign of Othman, and the 
most powerful man of the Saracen Empie, next to the Khalif) was the first, who, on receiv- 
ing the mandate of his sovereïgn, made preparations for sending an expedition to Armenia ; 
and it was he, who nominated Habib, the son of Muslimeh, for this purpose, at the head of | 
four thousand horsemen and two thousand foot soldiers. (See appendix, Extract IT. from Ibnu- 
l-a'asam.) Therefore we may admit, that the author having mistaken Mo’aviyeh for Othman, 
did not make mention either of the one or the other, but attributed the event solely to the 
epoch (41 of the Hijret) in which the Khalifate of the dynasty of Beni- Umayieh commenced, 
and the author of our MS., adding his own explanation Lo it, doubles the mistake of the original. 
Remark 3. page 493. 
With regard to the Khalifs having received information concerning the irruptions of the 
Khazars into Aderbijan ac. there is nothing mentioned in either of the two other versions of 
the Derbend-nâmeh. According to Ibnu-l-a'asam, 6000 warriors, under the command of ÆHakib, 
were sent by Mo’aviyeh to Armenia; but information being received that one of the Greek ge- 
nerals, with a great army, was on his way Lo Semisat, Selmän, the son of Rabia, was dispatched 
