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of Hodeidah’. Cf. Ahmad al-Murtada, al-Bahr al-zakhkhdr, Cairo, 1947-
49, ii, 184, rc-iterating that sadaqah is not lawful for Imams and Hashimis.
137. Diwan, 187.
138. Ibid., 252.
139. Ibid., 9. Al-Amlr took the Zaydl attitude of condemning the
‘heresy’ of Sufism (p. 131), was opposed to Muhammad ‘Abd al-Wahhab
(p. 134) and commended holding to the Traditions from the (pious) ances­
tors (al-ahadith min al-salaj). He had links with the Yemeni Sunnis and
with the Sunni Ashraf of the Hijaz.
140. Yahya b. al-Husayn, Ghayat al-amani, Cairo, 1968, i, 144-5.
141. For this person see Tarikh madinat San'a\ op. cit., index, 542 and
fn. 114.
142. Diwan, ed. Zuhdl Yakan, Beirut, 1962, 117.

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