A Literary History of the Arabs

by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson

[120] Ḥamása, 422, 14 sqq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 39, last line and foll.

[121] Ḥamása, 423, 11 sqq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 41, l. 3 sqq.

[122] Ḥamása, 252, 8 seq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 44, l. 3 seq.

[123] Hind is the mother of Bakr and Taghlib. Here the Banú Hind (Sons of Hind) are the Taghlibites.

[124] Ḥamása, 9, 17 seq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 45, l. 10 sqq.

[125] Ḥamása, 252, 14 seq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 46, l. 16 sqq.

[126] Ḥamása, 254, 6 seq. Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 47, l. 2 seq.

[127] Ḥamása, 96. Ibn Nubáta, cited by Rasmussen, Additamenta ad Historiam Arabum ante Islamismum, p. 34, remarks that before Qays no one had ever lamented a foe slain by himself (wa-huwa awwalu man rathá maqtúlahu).

[128] Ibn Hishám, p. 51, l. 7 sqq.

[129] In the account of Abraha's invasion given below I have followed Ṭabarí, i, 936, 9-945, 19 = Nöldeke's translation, pp. 206-220.