l Kays.[58]
11. Bani Tamim.[59]
12. Bani Asad.[60]

[Footnote 51: The Bani Ash-ar inhabited Jedda. They were of the
Kahlanite stock, the descendants of Al-Azd.]

[Footnote 52: The Bani Khushain were a clan of Kozaa, of Himiarite
stock.]

[Footnote 53: The Bani Dous belong to the Azdite tribe of the stock of
Kahtan. They lived at some distance south of Mecca. They had joined
Mohammad at Khyber.]

[Footnote 54: These were the sub-tribes of Ghatafan of the Meccan stock.
The chief families of Ghatafan were the Bani Ashja, Zobian, and the Bani
Abs. Murra and Fezara were the branches of Zobian. They all inhabited
Najd. Uyenia, the chief of the Bani Fezara, had committed an inroad upon
Medina in A.H. 6. In the same year the Bani Fezara had waylaid a Medina
caravan and plundered it.]

[Footnote 55: The Bani Suleim, a branch of the Bani Khasafa and a sister
tribe to Hawazin, who lived near Mecca, and in whose charge, Mohammad,
when but an infant, was placed, were also a tribe of the Meccan stock
descended through Khasafa from Mozar and Moadd. Bani Suleim, like Bani
Murra and Fezara, branches of Ghatafan, had long continued to threaten
Mohammad with attacks. The Bani Suleim having joined Aamir bin Tofeil,
chief of Bani Aamir, a branch of the tribe of Hawazin with their clans
Usseya, Ril, and Zakawan, had cut to pieces a party of Moslem
missionaries at Bir Mauna, invited by Abu Bera Amr ibn Malik, a chief of
the Bani Aamir, who had pledged for their security. The Bani Suleim had
joined also the Koreish army at the siege of Medina. In the seventh
year, they had slain another body of Moslem missionaries sent to them.]

[Footnote 56: The Bani Ozra were a tribe of Kozaa, like Joheina. They,
together with the Bani Bali and Juzam, inhabited the north of Arabia in
the part of the territory belonging to Ghassan. The family of Himyar,
descendants from Kahtan in Yemen, had flourished through the line of
Kozaa, the Bani Ozza, Joheina and other important tribes to the north of
the Peninsula on the border of Syria. It has been quoted by Sir W. Muir
from Katib Wakidi that the chief of the Bani Juzam carried back to them
a letter from Mohammad to this tenor: "Whoever accepteth the call of
Islam, he is among the confederates of the Lord; whoever refuseth the
same, a truce of two months is allowed for him for consideration."
(Muir's Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, p. 107, _foot-note_). The words "for
consideration" are not in the origi