And this silenced Muʾâwiyah for a time; but in a little while he raised his head, and cried, "O ye people! which tribe among the Arabs first professed el-Islám; and by whom is witness thereof borne?"
Et-Tarammâh answered, "We, O Muʾâwiyah!"
"How so?" asked the latter.
"Because," replied et-Tarammâh, "God sent Muhammad, and you accused him of falsehood, and pronounced him a fool, and deemed him mad. But we received him and succoured him. And God has re-
and most celebrated tribe of the Arabs. Kozaïy, his descendant in the sixth generation, wrested the guardianship of the Kaʾabah out of the hands of the Benu-Khuzâʾah, and with the custody of that building assumed the title of King. Kozaïy's grandson, Hâshim, raised the glory of his people to the highest pitch, and his memory is held in such veneration by the Muslims, that from him the kindred of the Prophet amongst them are called Hâshimites, and he who presides over Mekkah and el-Medînah, who must always be of the race of Muhammad, has the title of el Imâm el Hâshim, i. e., The prince or chief of the Hâshimites, even to this day. Muhammad was the great-grandson of Hâshim, and when he became famous, the Kuraish, who were at first his most violent opponents, added pride in his renown to their former arrogance of birth and culture. The Arabians were for some centuries under the government of the descendants of Kahtân (the progenitor of the ʾAráb-el-ʾAribah). Yaʾarab (see text), one of his sons, founding the kingdom of el-Yémen, and Jorham, another son (with a descendant of whom Ismael intermarried), founding the kingdom of el-Hijâz.
