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8. His son al-Mondzir the elder. 



9. Al-No'man son of N. 6. 



10. Al-Mondzir son of N. 6. 



11. Jabalah son of N. 6. 



12. Ayham son of N. 6. 



13. 'Amr son of N. 6. (Hamzah tells us that these six brothers 

 have reigned together ninety-two years and eight months !) 



14. Jafnah son of N. 7. 



15. Al-No'man son of N. 7. 



16. Al-No'man son of N. 12. 



17. His son Jabalah. 



18. Al-No'man son of N. 11. 



19. Al-Harith son of N. 11. 



20. His son al-No'man. 



21. His son al-Mondzir. 



22. 'Amrsonof N. 19. 



23. Hojr son of N. 19. 



24. His son al-Harith. 



25. His son Jabalah. 



26. His son al-Harith b. Aby Shimr. 



27. His son Abu Karib al-No'man Qatam. 



28. Al-Ayham b. Jabalah, grandson of N. 25. 



29. Al-Mondzir b. Jabalah, grandson of N. 25. 



30. Sharahyl b. Jabalah, grandson of N. 25. 



31. 'Amr b. Jabalah, grandson of N, 29. 



32. Jabalah b. al-Harith b. Jabalah, great grandson of N. 25. 



33. Jabalah b. al- Ayham, grandson of N. 10. 



According to this list they would have reigned seventeen generations 

 some of which (in cases, in which several brothers of the king suc- 

 ceeded him before his son) we should be obliged to calculate above the 

 average duration : the dynasty could therefore not have lasted less than 

 520 years, and we would be obliged to place its beginning in the first 

 century after Christ. Yet we know from Latin and Greek Historians 

 that no such dynasty then reigned in Arabia Petrea. 



Secondly, Hamzah himself allows that the last king was the grandson 

 of the tenth, and this is confirmed by the Kitab alaghany and all other 



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