The Saqlawi al-‘Abd strain is relevant to Arabians in the USA because two main foundation mares, the desert-bred Davenport imports *Urfah and *Wadduda are from it. I am now realizing that it may be related to the strain of Saqlawi Nijm al-Subh, which is present in Syria among the Shammar’s Marazeeq clan under the name of Saqlawi Marzaqani. This is at least according to the testimony of Saddah Ibn Jadran in the Abbas Pasha Manuscript (APM). He should know. As a first step, I broke the account of the history of Saqlawi al-‘Abd in the Abbas Pasha Manuscript (APM) into the following simplified sequence of ownership (additional information in between brackets are mine): Saddah ibn Jedran (of the Ruwalah) was asked about the Saqlawiya from the strain of al ‘Abd, and said: 1/ One of Shammar had in his possession a Saqlawiya Jedraniya, but we do not know how she passed to Shammar originally. 2/ The Shammari was taken captive by Funaykh of al-Sha’lan (of the Ruwalah), who took the mare as ransom. 3/ Funaykh gave the mare to the family of a man of al Mani’ (also of the Ruwalah) as blood money for having killed him. 4/ The…
وقد سمعت القصة نفسها عن لسان تاجر الخيل والخبيرالحلبي عبد القادر الحمامي رحمه الله سنة ١٩٩٣
Each of the eleven chapters of the Abbas Pasha Manuscript in its Arabic version starts with a table. The table lists the titles of the accounts on every marbat and the page number where the account begins. Sometimes the title includes information not present in the body of the account. There are six sections under the general title “Chapter Three on the Saqlawiyaat”. Section One is on the Saqlawi Simni, section Two is on the Saqlawi Sudani, and so on. The last section, “Section Six on stand-alone Saqlawiyaat” is where the author of the Manuscript grouped those Saqlawiyaat not falling under the previous five sections. This sixth section includes the following title entry: “Accounts of the parti-coloured (rabshah) Najmat al-Subh, the mare of Hussayn al-‘Awwadi, page 129“. Here is my translation of the account on page 129: Accounts of the parti-coloured (rabshah) Saqlawiyah, the mare of Hussayn al-‘Awwadi of al-Ghubayn, her sire is al-Mahyubi. Saddah ibn Jadran informed that: “This mare belonged to a Ruwalah man [who was] in al-Jazirah, beholden (qasir) to Farhan al-Jarba. The Ghubayn [clan] had unhorsed him [in a raid] and taken her. She is Saqlawiyah of al-Njaymaat. Her dam had passed to the Ruwalah from…