[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 already described.] [Footnote 116: A clan of the Bani Shaiban, the descendants of Bakr bin Wail already mentioned.] [Footnote 117: The Bani Sakeef (Thackif) were a branch of the Mazar tribes of the Moaddite stock. They were a sub-tribe of the Hawazin and sister tribe to the Bani Adwan, Ghatafan, and Suleim. They (the Bani Sakeef) lived at Tayif and worshipped the idol _Lat_ or _Taqhia_. Orwa, a chief of Tayif, had gone to Medina to embrace Islam. His first generous impulse was to return to Tayif and invite his fellow-citizens to share in the blessings imparted by the new faith. Upon his making public his conversion, he was wounded by a mob and suffered martyrdom. But he left a favourable impression of Islam at Tayif. Their deputation consisted of six chiefs with fifteen or twenty followers. The Prophet received them gladly and pitched a tent for their accommodation in the court of his mosque. Every evening after supper he paid them there a visit and instructed them in the faith till it was dark. Sir W. Muir writes:--"The martyrdom of Orwa compromised the inhabitants of Tayif, and forced to continue the hostile course they had previously been pursuing. But they began to suffer severely from the marauding attacks of Bani Hawazin under Malik. That chief, according to his engagement, maintained the increasing predatory warfare against them."--Life of Mahomet, Vol. IV, page 204. At page 155 he says regarding Malik,--"being confirmed in his chiefship he engaged to maintain a constant warfare with the citizens of Tayif." But there was no such engagement with Malik. The authority (Hishamee) referred to by Sir W. Muir does not speak anything of the alleged engagement. _Vide_ Hishamee, page 879. Hishamee has only so much that Mohammad made Malik chief of those who were converted from the tribe. These were the clans of Somala, Salma, and Fahm, and that he used to fight with them against the Sakifites. Sir W. Muir further writes that the inhabitants of Tayif said among themselves: "We have not strength to fight against the Arab tribe all around that have plighted their faith to Mahomet, _and bound themselves to fight in his cause_" (Vol. IV, p. 205). The italics are mine and these words are not to be found in the original authorities. Hishamee (page 914) has _Bayaoo va Aslamoo_, _i.e._, they have plighted and submitted (or converted to Islam).]