Note 19 — CHAPTER 1
Reading edition
[Umar-bin-Khaltāb, the second Khalīfa (A.D. 634-44). The “Abul Aas” of the original text possibly represents Abu-l-lais, “the ancestor of the Laisi Sayyids, Abu-l-lais-i-Hindi, who is mentioned in the Chachnāmah, who came into Sind with the Arabs, and was present at the battle in which Rāja Dāhir was slain” (C. Raverty, Notes on Afghanistan, 1888, p. 671, note).]