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NO L. HERN TRIBES .);>

•idat Duloim, unci Jubur all claim Zobeid origin. All Zobcicl
Am* claim a common Qahtan ancestor and therefore arc Ahl
ribes
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JEBELlYAH (ZOBEID)
Adhamiit. 500 tents. J. Duruz
500-000 tents. E. part of J. Duruz iS‘heraffit. 500 tents. »>
o ibn ‘Ayyiish en-Na‘air Uncllyiih. 400 tents. ,,
and Ibn Lilli Sul fit. 400-500 tents. In the Lcjfih
l fawn. 400 tents. I bn Mutla4, I bn
Hhiiftdh-
5U0-000 tents. In the Ruhbah and Khudeir. Jcbel Duruz
* Safa 'Isa. 400-500tents. Rat‘anibn Mad-hi.
Jcbel Duruz

4. Beni Sakhr.
The BENI S AKHR, qsually known as Ahl esh-Shimal, ‘ People of t he
North arc of the northern Arabian stock, and reckon their descent
froyt Mutlhar, either through ‘Abs or through Tamlm. Legend gives
varied accounts of their origin, one being that the eponymous
foutfcler of the tribe was a certain Sakhr who came from the east ;
another that their ancestor was a child abandoned in the desert;
he was adopted by a Bedouin called Dahamsh, who gave him his
daughter in marriage, and was nicknamed Toweiq (Tflweiq) on account
of a small* ring which he wore round his neck ; for this reason the
whole tribe is sometimes known as the Tauqah. It is also occasionally
named, after the foster-father of its founder, the Dahamshah. All
traditions agree, however, that the Beni Sakhr spring from a common
ancestor whose tomb is venerated at Bir Ba’iy. This cenotaph,
built in an ancient caravan-station on the road from Damascus to
Teima, which fell into disuse in the early Abbasid period, is covered
with small votive offerings, and the great Sheikhs of the tribe, when
they move down to summer quarters here, would not venture to enter
the Wadi Ba’ir without sacrificing a camel in honour of the jidd.
The sub-tribes of the Sukhur are all descendants of Toweiq, the
genealogical tree being as follows :
Toweiq.

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Ghufl. Sc him. Chubein. Qa*ud.

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•Amr. Heqeish. Hamid. Muteirat. FiViz.

Zcben.
• The territory of the Beni Sakhr stretches from the Jebel Duruz
the north to the depression of Jafar, near Ma an, in the south;
tl\1S T ,uc^ 011 the cast by the Wadi Si than, and on the west by
e -Jordan. It is a rolling country, sparsely covered with grass,
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