Somal, the Ísa, Gudabirsi, Ishak, and Bursuk tribes. Darud Jabarti[1] bin Ismail bin Akil (or Ukayl) is supposed by his descendants to have been a noble Arab from Al-Hijaz, who, obliged to flee his country, was wrecked on the north-east coast of Africa, where he married a daughter of the Hawiyah tribe: rival races declare him to have been a Galla slave, who, stealing the Prophet's slippers,[2] was dismissed with the words, Inná-tarad-ná-hu (verily we have rejected him): hence his name Tarud (طارود) or Darud, the Rejected.[3] The etymological part of the story is, doubtless, fabulous; it expresses however, the popular belief that the founder of the eastward or windward tribes, now extending over the seaboard from Bundir Jadid to Ras Hafun, and southward from the sea to the Webbes,[4] was a man of ignoble origin. The children of Darud are now divided into two great bodies: "Harti" is the family name of the Dulbahanta, Ogadayn, Warsangali and Mijjarthayn, who call themselves sons of Harti bin Kombo bin Kabl Ullah bin Darud: the other Darud tribes not included under that appellation are the Girhi, Berteri, Marayhan, and Bahabr Ali. The
- ↑ Some travellers make Jabarti or Ghiberti to signify "slaves," from the Abyssinian Guebra; others, "Strong in the Faith" (Al-Islam). Bruce applies it to the Moslems of Abyssinia; it is still used, though rarely, by the Somal, who in these times generally designate by it the Sawahili or Negroid Moslems.
- ↑ The same scandalous story is told of the venerable patron saint of Aden, the Sharif Haydrus.
- ↑ Darud bin Ismail's tomb is near the Yubbay Tug in the windward mountains; an account of it will be found in Lieut. Speke's diary.
- ↑ The two rivers Shabayli and Juba.
His informants and mine differ, therefore, toto cœlo. According to some, Dirr was the father of Aydur; others make Dirr (it has been written Tir and Durr) to have been the name of the Galla family into which Shaykh Ishak married.
