[Footnote 75: Bani Bahra (bin Amr bin Al-Haf bin Kozaa), who were a branch of the Kozaa of the Himyarite stock, had emigrated to the north, and settled in the Ghassanide territory.] [Footnote 76: Bani Bajila, a sister of Khas-am and descendants of Anmar bin Nizar of the Kahtanite stock. They inhabited Yemen. The Bajila after professing Islam had destroyed the famous image of Kholasa.] [Footnote 77: A branch of Bani Aamir bin Saasaa in the centre of Arabia.] [Footnote 78: They lived about Yemama and the shores of the Persian Gulf. They were one of the Moaddite tribes. The war of Basus between Bani Bakr and their sister tribe Bani Taghlib had lasted for forty years. There have been famous poets in the Bani Bakr tribe, among whom are Tarafa, Haris bin Hiliza, and Maimun Al-Asha. The Bani Bakr and Bani Tamim were constantly at war, which was abandoned under the influence of Islam, when both the parties were converted to it during the lifetime of Mohammad.] [Footnote 79: They were a branch of the Kozaa from the Himyarite stock, the descendants of Kahtan, and had settled in the north of Arabia in the Ghassanide territory on the borders of Syria.] [Footnote 80: A sub-tribe of Kozaa.] [Footnote 81: A clan of the tribe of Lakhm.] [Footnote 82: An Arab of the Bani Juzam in the north of Arabia and Governor of Amman in the Ghassanide territory announced his conversion to Mohammad by a despatch in A.H. 8.] [Footnote 83: They have already been described at page 46. Their deputation waited upon Mohammad on his return from Tabuk.] [Footnote 84: Descendants of Anmar of the Kahtanite stock.] [Footnote 85: A sub-tribe of Azd at Yemen.] [Footnote 86: Already described under Bani Azd.] [Footnote 87: Bani Hamadan of the Kahtanite descent. An important tribe in the east of Yemen.] [Footnote 88: A Christian branch of the Bani Bakr who inhabited Yemama. "The account of the embassy of the Bani Hanifa is more decidedly unfavourable to Christianity, but its details appear of doubtful authority. Moseilama, the false Prophet, was among the number, and there are some unlikely anticipations of his sacrilegious claims. "As the embassy were departing, Mahomet gave them a vessel in which were the leavings of the water with which he had performed his lustration; and he said,--'_When you reach your country, break down your church, and sprinkle its sight with this water, and make in its place a mosque_'....