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E. C. Ross —Annals of ; Oman—Notes to Book I. 
[No. 2, . 
Notes to Book I. 
1 (p. 112.) The fourth Book of the ‘ Kesh-ul-Ghummeh.’ 
2 (p. 112.) The el-Azd. The tribe el-Azd (the Azdites) derives from Barra el-Azd, 
who according 1 to the Arabian genealogers was in the tenth line of descent from Kahtan. 
Kahtan begat YaTub, who begat Yashjob, who begat ‘Abd-el-Shems, or Saba, who begat 
Kalilan, who begat Zeid, who begat Malik, who begat Nabt, who begat el-Ghauth, who 
begat Barra el-Azd. 
8 (p. 112.) Malik-bin Fahm. The leadership of the Azdites into ‘Oman is commonly, 
as here, ascribed to Malik-bin Fahm, whose pedigree is correctly given to el-Azd. It will 
thus be seen that he was in the 23rd line of descent from Kahtan. The mention of the 
younger Barius might lead one to suppose that the immigration of Yemenites to ‘Oman 
under Malik-bin Fahm occurred in the fourth centui'y before Christ. The account also 
given by the writer of a paper on ‘Oman, in the Bombay Government Selections, Yol. 
XXIV, gives the following account of this event : 
“ Malik-bin Fahm of the province of Najd, the first native Arabian who entered 
‘Oman four centuries before the Christian era , came by the route of Yemen, &c.” 
Now it is generally allowed that the period of Kahtan, the ancestor of Malik, may be 
fixed somewhere about 700 B.- C. Assuming this, it is impossible to believe that Malik- 
bin Fahm lived at the early period mentioned above. Other and more authentic accounts 
of Malik also prove that his period was much later. The following biographical notice of 
that leader is extracted from the Index to Dr. Wiistenfeld’s Genealogical Tables. 
“ Malik-bin Fahm was leader of the Azdites when they emigrated on account of the 
“ imminent breaking of the dyke of Mareb. He led them first to ‘Oman, then to el- 
“ Bahrain, and finally established himself on the borders of Syria, where he founded the 
“ kingdom, the government of which through the marriage of his daughter Racash passed 
“ to the Lakhmidites.” (Reiske, Hist. Arab., p. 8.) 
The bursting of the dyke Mareb and consequent emigration of Yemen tribes are 
events which are supposed to have happened in the 1st century of our era or beginning 
of the 2nd. By some accounts ‘Amr-Muzeikia, who was 17th in descent from Kahtan 
and also an Azdite, was the original leader of the Yemen emigrants, and Malik is said to 
have arrived in ‘Oman later. 
At all events the probability is that the entry of Malik-bin Fahm to ‘Oman occurred 
in the early part of the 2nd century after Christ. The part he played in the history of 
‘Oman is probably exaggerated in native popular traditions. ‘Oman had in older times 
formed a province of the Yemenite kingdom under Ya‘rub-bin Kahtan. The period of 
Persian conquest is, I imagine, unknown. 
4 (p. 112.) Ka‘b was ancestor of a branch of the Azdites called el-Azd el-Slianua, a 
term signifying the hatred they mutually bore one another. 
5 (p. 112.) Nasr-bin el-Azd. This personage has also been named as the leader of 
the Azdites from Yemen and founder of the el-Azd of ‘Oman. 
( Vide Rev. C. P. Badger’s ‘Imams and Seyyids of ‘Oman,’ Intro., pp. VI, and VII.) 
6 (p. 112.) Malik-bin Fahm appears to have had two brothers Soleym and ‘Amr. 
7 (p. 113.) Ivelbeh meaning ‘bitch.’ 
8 (p. 113.) Of Ma‘add or ‘Adnan. 
All the preserved Arabian genealogies are traced back to one of two ancestors, either 
to Kahtan or to ‘Adnan. Ma‘add was the son of ‘Adnan, so that the term Ma‘addite is 
