page 43.]

[Footnote 96: A branch of Saad-al-Ashira from the Kahtanite stock. This
tribe inhabited Yemen. They had some peculiar prejudice against eating
the heart of an animal. Mohammad had caused their chief to break his
superstition, which he did by making him eat the roasted heart of an
animal.

But they returned disgusted when told that his (the chief's) mother who
had committed infanticide was in hell. However they sent another
deputation a second time and finally embraced Islam.]

[Footnote 97: They settled in Dumat-ul-Jundal, now Jal-al-Jowf, north of
Arabia. They were a tribe of the Bani Kozaa descended from Himyar.]

[Footnote 98: A tribe of the Kahtanite stock at Yemen. They lived in a
hilly country of that name in Yemen.]

[Footnote 99: They were a tribe of the Kahtanite stock on the coast of
Yemen.]

[Footnote 100: A clan of the Bani Aamir bin Saasaa of the Hawazin tribe
already described.]

[Footnote 101: Descendants of Khazima of the Moaddite stock.]

[Footnote 102: The Bani Kinda princes, Vail bin Hijar and Al-Ash-as bin
Kays; the former, the chief of the coast, and the latter, the chief of
the Hazaramaut in the south of Arabia. They with their whole clans
embraced Islam. Bani Kinda were a powerful tribe of the Kahalanite
stock.]

[Footnote 103: A clan of Ozra from Kozaa described at page 46.]

[Footnote 104: Descendants of Ghatafan of the Moaddite stock.]

[Footnote 105: They inhabited the sea-coast of Yemen, and were a tribe
of Muzhie of the Kahtanite stock.]

[Footnote 106: A branch of the tribe of Aamir bin Saasaa.]

[Footnote 107: A branch of Zobian.]

[Footnote 108: They were a tribe of the Kahtanite stock, residing in
Yemen. Their deputation consisted of two hundred persons. It is said
this was the last deputation received by Mohammad. Some time before this
Ali was sent to the Bani Nakh-a and other tribes of the Mudhij stock in
Yemen.]

[Footnote 109: A tribe of Kozaa of the Himyarite stock at Yemen.]

[Footnote 110: A sub-tribe of Kozaa inhabiting Syria described at page
46.]

[Footnote 111: A tribe of Muzhij of the Kahtanite stock at Yemen.]

[Footnote 112: They were a clan of the Bani Aamir bin Saasaa already
described.]

[Footnote 113: A tribe of the Kozaa of the Moaddite stock, and according
to some from Yemen.]

[Footnote 114: Descendants of Hazaramaut of the Kahtanite stock at
Yemen.]

[Footnote 115: A clan of the Bani Hanifa, descendants of Bakr bin Wail
alrea