SAMHAN (AP)

A Foundation Horse

In the stud of Abbas Pasha, Egypt.

NOTES: This horse occurs by name only, as the sire of Aziza (APS) in the 1932 certified pedigree for *Bint Bint Serra I from the stud of Prince Kamal al-Din.

Raswan Index entries #7880, 9060, 10656 and 10841 describe Samhan as follows: bred by Abbas Pasha, sired by Qumiz [a c1850 Samhan Hafi stallion of Ibn Rumayyis of the Muntafiq, given to Ibn Mubarak Ibn Subah Al Khalifah of Kuwait and imported prior to 1855 to Egypt for Abbas Pasha; Qumiz also called al-Qumiz; by Shalul, a Samhan of Ibn Hammadi by a Samhan and out of Zahra, a Samhah of the Muntafiq by a Samhan] and out of Udayha [a c1850 Dahmah Shahwaniyah mare in the stud of Abbas Pasha, Egypt--Udayha also called Wudi'ha; by a Dahman Shahwan al-Najib of the Mutayr out of Wadihah].

In a pedigree extension, Wadihah is described as follows: a c1845 grey Dahmah Shahwaniyah mare bred by 'Ata Ibn Faysal al-Imam (Faysal Ibn Turki Ibn Sa'ud) and imported prior to 1855 to Egypt for Abbas Pasha. Sired by a Kuhaylan al-Tariqi of the 'Ajman and out of Talqah (AP), the mare of 'Abd Allah Ibn Naqadan of the 'Ajman. All circa dates are Al Khamsa estimates. The rest of the above information is from the Raswan Index.

A mare named Wadihah is described in the Abbas Pasha Manuscript [1993, p252] as a grey Dahmah Shahwaniyah mare bred by 'Abd Allah Ibn Naqadan, Shaykh of al-Murrah; presented to Faysal Ibn Turki Ibn Sa'ud, the Imam; imported to Egypt by 1853 for Abbas Pasha; by Kuhaylan al-Turayfi [by a Dahman-Shahwan of the marbat of al-Najib of the horses of al Khalifah] and out of the mare of Ibn Naqadan [Talqah (AP)].

A mare named Wadihah of this description is also shown in his translation of the Abbas Pasha manuscript by Prince Mohamed Aly [1935, part 2, p91]. [See also Talqah (AP)], which addresses the tribal affiliation confusion for Ibn Naqadan.]

EGYPT I Ancestral Element