genealogist, Abu Yaqazan, says that he was a legitimate
son of Abu Sofian, and that his mother was Asma, daughter of A'war.
But all others call his mother Somayya, who is said to have been a
slave-girl of Hind, the wife of Abu Sofian, and who became later also
the mother of Abu Bakra. We cannot make out whether Abu Sofian
acknowledged him as his son or not. At a later period, the Abbasid
caliph Mahdi had the names of Ziyad and his descendants struck off
the rolls of the Koreish; but, after his death, the persons concerned
gained over the chief of the rolls office, and had their names
replaced in the lists (see Tabari iii. 479).

[14] Aghani xx. p. 13, Ibn abi Osaibia i. p. 118.

[15] Tabari ii. p. 82.

[16] See Chodzko, _Theatre persan_ (Paris, 1878).

[17] Dozy took _communis_ for a gloss to _civiliter_

[18] Formerly the capital of the homonymous province of Syria; it
lies a day's march west from Haleb (Aleppo).

[19] This account of the conquest is based partly on the researches
of Dozy, but mainly on those of Saavedra in his _Estudio sobre la
Invasion de los Arabes en Espana_ (Madrid, 1892). Some of the
details, however, e.g. the battle near Tamames and the part played by
the sons of Witiza, are based, not on documentary evidence, but on
probable inferences. For other accounts of the deaths of Musa and
Abdalaziz see Sir Wm. Muir, _Caliphate_ (London, 1891), pp. 368-9.

[20] Solaiman is the Arabic form of Solomon. The prophecy is to be
found in the _Kitab al-Oyun_, p. 24; cf. Tabari ii. p. 1138.

[21] Seyid Ameer Ali, _A Critical Examination of the Life and
Teachings of Mahomet_, pp. 341-343.

[22] Cf. Van Vloten, _Recherches sur la domination arabe, le
Chiitisme et les croyances messianiques sous le Khalifat des
Omayades_ (Amsterdam, 1894), p. 63 seq.

[23] Cf. Wellhausen, _Die Kampfe der Araber mit den Rom. in der Zeit
der Umaijiden_ (Gottingen, 1901), p. 31.

[24] Bayan i. p. 42; Dozy, _Histoire des musulmans d'Espagne_, i. p.
246, names the place Bacdoura or Nafdoura, the Spanish chronist
Nauam.

[25] Dozy i. p. 268.

[26] Merwan has been nicknamed _al-Ja'di_ and _al-Himar_ (the Ass).
As more than one false interpretation of these names has been given,
it is not superfluous to cite here Qaisarani (ed. de Jong, p. 31),
who says on good authority that a certain al-Ja'd b.