…the bedouin who lived along the Nile in the north of the Sudan and came down from the lands of the Kababeesh and the Dar al-Hamar…
-The Wedding of Zein, Tayeb Salih
KhairAllah was a Kabbāshi from Dār al-Kabābīsh and Adam was a Hamari from Dār al-Hamar. They did not get along well because KhairAllah was an experienced Khabīr, Trail Boss, and Adam was an inexperienced Tabbākh, Cook, not because they came each from a different Dār. Lane gives Dār as House, Abode, or A Place Where One Alights and Takes Up Dwelling. Thus, Tanzania’s Dār al-Salām, The Abode of Peace, and Morocco’s Dār Baydā’, White House, or Casablanca. Lane also gives Dār the less common meaning of Burial Ground, but there is no telling where KhairAllah and Adam will alight for that last and final time.