Also from the Arabic edition of the Abbas Pasha Manuscript, my translation: Ghadir al-Simri of the Dhafeer, a white haired man, the owner of al-Simr, was asked about the marbat of the Hamdaniyah Simriyah, in the house [Bedouin house, i.e., tent] of Farhan al-Jarba, at a gathering [majliss] in the presence of Farhan al-Jarba, Khuzaym the Shaykh of al-Sayih of Shammar, Ubayd Ibn Suqi, and Samir Ibn Zaydan al-Jarba [that’s the brother of ‘Ajil Ibn Zaydan owner of Davenport’s *Hadba], and a crowd of people, more than a hundred individuals. O Ghadir, by your honor and good fortune, and belongings and children, recount the story of the Hamdaniyah Simriyah, your marbat. From where he pass to you? To whom did she pass from you? What are the marabet which recognize? Inform us truthfully in this gathering! During the gathering, Ghadir al-Simri reported that: “As to the strains that passed from us to outsiders, our grandathers say that on the day of the battle of the Sharif, in times past, when our grandfathers were in Najd, twelves fillies from the daughters of the Hamdaniyah Simriyah our marbat left to the tribes [the tribes allied with the Sharif of Mecca]. This is…
This entry compares two Arabic primary sources some 53 years apart: First, my translation of a passage in the Abbas Pasha Manuscript (1853) about the Hamdani Simri strain, with my notes in brackets. “Mughir Ibn Buraykan of the Gmassah [a clan of the Sba’ah tribe], a man aged one hundred years, was queried. He testified that ‘Abdallah Ibn Ghbain, one of the senior Shaykhs of the Fada’an had informed him that the Hamdaniyah Simriyah had reached al-Jad’ah [a clan of the Fad’aan tribe] from al-Simri of the Dhafeer. It happened that a raiding party from the Dhafeer had attacked them [“the Fad’aan tribe] at Wadi al-Rasha in Najd. Fad’aan and Sba’ah [who often camped together] pursued him [i.e., al-Simri, who was part of the Dhafeer raid] and unhorsed him. The Hamdaniyah escaped from her owner, and she was a two-year old. A horseman from al-Jad’ah — the owner of [the marbat of] Kuhaylat Ras al-Fidawi — went after her. He [the horseman from al-Jad’ah] offered him [al-Simri] protection in exchange for half of her [the mare] and gave him the [Kuhaylat] Ras al-Fidawi and twenty she-camels for the second half, and took her. So [the clan of] al-Jad’ah had the…