[364] Ya‘qúbí, vol. ii, p. 283, l. 8 seq.
[365] Mas‘údí, Murúju ’l-Dhahab (ed. by Barbier de Meynard), vol. v. p. 77.
[366] Nöldeke's Delectus, p. 25, l. 3 sqq., omitting l. 8.
[367] The Continuatio of Isidore of Hispalis, § 27, quoted by Wellhausen, Das Arabische Reich und sein Sturz, p. 105.
[368] Ḥamása, 226. The word translated 'throne' is in Arabic minbar, i.e., the pulpit from which the Caliph conducted the public prayers and addressed the congregation.
[369] Kalb was properly one of the Northern tribes (see Robertson Smith's Kinship and Marriage, 2nd ed., p. 8 seq.—a reference which I owe to Professor Bevan), but there is evidence that the Kalbites were regarded as 'Yemenite' or 'Southern' Arabs at an early period of Islam. Cf. Goldziher, Muhammedanische Studien, Part I, p. 83, l. 3 sqq.
[370] Muhammedanische Studien, i, 78 sqq.
[371] Qaḥṭán is the legendary ancestor of the Southern Arabs.
[372] Aghání, xiii, 51, cited by Goldziher, ibid., p. 82.
[373] A verse of the poet Suḥaym b. Wathíl.