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W. 33 A. ’1-LIasan al-BisyawI
(i) his jami*
(ii) the works cited in J.M. 8 above
W. 34 A. ’1-blawari Muhammad b. al-ftawari
(i) his jami‘
(ii) his letter to the people of the Hatframawt (J.M. 6 III)
His Tafslr of 500 ayahs of the Qur’an has been printed by Dar
al-Yaq^ah press (Beirut 1394/1974).
W. 35 A. Ishaq Ibrahim b. Qays al-Hadraml (see J.M. 4)
W. 36 A. ’1-Mu’thir al-$alt b. Khamls
(i) al-AbdSth wS ’l-$ifat
(ii) Bay&n wa’I-burhan see J.M. 7
(in) A sirah F. A. Jabir (W.46)
W. 37 A. Qahtan Khalid b. Qabtan
This clearly forms the basis of the account of the early Imamate as it
declines into civil war as narrated by Kashf al-Ghummah (W.24).
Sirah (J.M. 7)
W. 39 A. Sa‘Id al-Kudaml
(i) K. al-Mu*tabar
(ii) al-J&mi* al-mufid Jawabat Abkam A. Sa(Id
(iii) K. al-Istiqamah fi’l-wilayah wa-’l-bara’ah
It is pleasing to find three of A. Sa‘Id’s four main works in this
collection (some with several copies). An analysis of the K. al-Istiqamah
is given in section Vb below.
From internal evidence it is clear that A. Sa‘Id was alive in the
4th/10th century and that his main floruit probably coincides with the
key figures enunciating the extreme Rustaq party dogma in the fairly
early 5th/11th century.
W. 40 (i) A. Sufyan Mabbub b. al-Rabll
Letters to the Hatframls and Omanis about Harun b. al-Yaman cf. J.M.
5 III (discussed in Section Va).
(ii) His son A. ‘Abdullah Muhammad b. Mabbub
Although no major work of his was seen there is a great deal of material
originating from him in these manuscripts. As a ‘foreigner’ he was
resented by the local ‘ulama1 and at one time had a head-on collision
with Hashim b. Ghilan, the dominant figure of the Imamate in the early
third century (cf. under J.M. 6 ii). A further clash with the Omani
establishment again occurred over the question of retrospective
dissociation from the Imam Muhanna b. Jayfar (d. 237/851), but A.
‘Abdullah seems to have realized that it would serve no purpose to
divide the community on this issue and he eventually acquiesced in
recognizing Muhanna (thus averting the kind of breach which the
Rustaq party was to create in Oman). A. ‘Abdullah had considerable
influence with the new Imam al-$alt b. Malik and from his time we i
have letters to the peoples of Maghrib and to the Imam Ahmad b.
Sulayman of yatframawt ‘an lisan the Imam $alt (cf. the section Bay‘
al-ImSm wa-'l-QStf, wa-’l-WSli, wa-’l-ShSri in Bk. V of Jum‘ah
al-Sa’ighfs Jawhar op.cit.); also a letter to the people of Hadramawt,