"دليل الخليج. مجلد I. القسم التاريخي. الأجزاء Iأ و Iب. ج.ج. لوريمر ١٩١٥" [‎٧‎١‎٥] (١٧٨٢/٨٥٨)

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Matters remained stationary until the 12th of January 1848, when, 1848.
intercourse between 'Ajman and Sharjah having been but lately resumed,
a treacherous attempt was made by the governor of Sharjah, Shaikh
'Abdullah«bin -Sultan, a worthy son of his father, to possess himself of the
'Ajman fort. The scheme miscarried and was at once disavowed by the
elder Qasimi Shaikh; but the disgust which it excited was such as to
throw the four other Trucial Shaikhs into combination against Sultan-bin-
Saqar and his sons. No active retaliation however wa.s attempted.
The relations of the Shaikhs with one another during the next two 184S-50.
years in Baraimi and Batinab, have been partially described above, and
at home no movements of importance took place among them. It may
be added here that, during the occupation of Baraimi by Shaikh Sa'id-
bin-Tahnun, his relations with the Sharjah and Dibai Shaikhs were
much strained. In July 184-8 he required the former, as his ally, to
break with the latter—a requisition with which Shaikh Sultan merely
pretended to comply ; and in December the Shaikhs of Sharjah, Dibai,
and possibly ■'Ajman combined to recover Baraimi for the W ahhabis,
but the force which they assembled never, apparently, reached its
destination.
In 1851, notwithstanding the efforts of Shaikh Maktum to prevent 1861-53.
it, peace was concluded between Shaikh Sa 'id-bin-Tahnuu and Shaikh
Sultan-bin-Saqar ; but in 185a Shaikh Sultan, who had interfered in the
domestic affairs of the Dibai principality, found himself confronted by a
defensive alliance between the Shaikhs of Dibai, Abu Dhabi and Umm-al-
Qaiwain.
The aggressions of Shaikh Sultan -bin-Saqar on the small neighbour- Relations be-
ing Shaikhdom of Umm -al-Qaiwain, the independence of which, not with- ^ween^t ^
standing his repudiation of suzerainty in 1832, he would willingly have sharjah and
destroyed, demand a short separate notice. In 1839, two inhabitants
of Dibai having been slain in the desert by men of Umm-al-Qaiwam 1839i
and others who mistook them for members of the Manasir tribe,
the Shaikh of Umm -al-Qaiwain, 'Abdullah -bin-Rashid, hastened to
tender compensation through the Shaikh of Shaijah, ioi the ^hare
of his subjects in the deed ; but his offer was not accepted, nor was
the friendly intervention of the British Resident productive of
any result. A raid was then made by the Shaikh of Dibai, with t e
consent of the Shaikh of Sharjah, upon the territory of Umm-al-
Qaiwain; but it ended in the capture of six of the Dibai party by the
Shaikh of Umm -al-Qaiwain, who placed them in confinement and re use
to let them go. Shaikh Saqar -bin-Sultan, son of the Qasimi chxef, now
openly sided with Shaikh Maktum of Dibai; and Umm -al-Qaiwain
was approached by a joint force, which, after drawing the defenders into