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for the sake of God are considered as de- 
serving the best and most sublime rewards:— 
these (the descendants of Hamzeh and Abbas) 
therefore, being till then deprived of the means 
of taking a part in the glory of the warriors 
and martyrs — for in all the country around 
them there was no abode of the infidels, where 
they might make war for religion and share its 
merits, — these (saints) therefore resolved to 
Seek this happiness by leaving their native lands 
and going abroad, in hopes that they might come 
to a country. of infidels and there succeed by 
the aid of the Lord in their desired end. — 
This is now the beginning of the subject. 
There were five personages of the most ac- 
complished of the descendants of the above men- 
tioned two saints who set off from their own 
land; three of the descendants of Hamzeh na- 
mely: Sheikh-Ibrähim, the son of 1shdkh ; 
Sheikh- Ahmed and Sheikh-Milli; — and two 
of the descendants of 4bbds, namely: Sheikh- 
Mumehhid and Sheikh- Nâsirud-din. — These 
five with their families, after quitting their 
country, and after travelling from stage to 
stage, reached the beautiful abode of Con- 
stantinople, where they remained several years. 
Hence they journeyed with five thousand war- 
like men to Hindostan, where they remained 
a long space of time. After that they left 
that country and did not cease to travel till 
they arrived in Shirwän ‘°. Here they stayed 
two years, and took preparatorÿ measures 
100 Since the author attributes his information, concerning the emigration of these Suints- Adventurers, 
to tradition, we may give him as much credit as a mere tradition can Jay claim to; but as he refers the be- 
ginning of this emigration to 200 years after the Hijret, we have reason to believe that the tradition al- 
Jaded to could not be derived but from the actual emigrations of some religious adventurers, who, about 
that period indeed wandered from place to place with 
pretentions to their having been descended from such 
and such saints &c. and encouraged their new brethren to spoil and plunder which always have been ef- 
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