The JADOONS (GADUNS)

A tribe of Pathan, who resides partly on the southern slopes of Mahaban Mountains, called Gadoon Area in district Swabi of Mardan division and partly in Abbottabad and Haripur districts of Hazara Division of the NWFP Province of Pakistan.
The Jadoons have descended from Ashraf alias Jadoon (Gadoon) of Panni (Parnai, Parney) clan of Ghurghusht Afghan. Panni, Kakar, Naghar (also called Nahar and Naghaz) and Dawi were four sons of Daney (Danai), son of Ismail alias Ghurghusht.
As stated by Raverty, Ghurghusht was merely a nick or by-name. The real name of Ghurghusht was Ismail, and the reason of his obtaining this by-name was thus explained in the “Khulasat-ul-Ansab” as referred by Raverty, “He from his childhood was of a cheerful, frolicsome disposition, and fond of play than work. When he became older, his parents would chide him and say, “Art thou going to spend all the days in this Ghurghusht”. These words in the Pushto language mean leaping and jumping, playing and roaming as is the custom of children and thus these words applied to Ismail as a nickname.
_____ The people of this tribe call themselves Jadoons, but Eastern Afghans who change the letter S’h into K’h and “J” into “G” style them Gaduns as letter J ( ) and G ( ) are interchangeable in Pushto language, just like Jillani and Gillani are synonyms. Hence this tribe in the Peshawar valley is called Gadoon. Persians style them as Jzadoon ( )

Regarding the descent of the Jadoon tribe, Raverty says,
“ The descent of the Jadoon Afghan, called Gaduns by the tribes of Peshawar valley, who change the original letter “Jz” into “G” is well known to those who are acquainted with genealogy of the Pushtanah or Afghan nation, and who do not seek to produce them out of Hindus. They are not ”Yusufzaies” like those around them, truly and certainly are not a branch of Kakar Tribe.

They have descended from Jzadun, son of Parnay (Panni) and brother of Kakar, the two latter being sons of Danaey, son of Ghurghusht, son of Kais-i- Abdur Rashid, entitled the “Pathan”. The descendants of Parnaey, who were very numerous, and said to have been ousted from their lands about Sanga’h Mandahi, in Siwistan, became dispersed, and moved northwards at a comparatively early date. It is also clear that they became greatly scattered, and that but a few continued to dwell in their early seats, a vast number having migrated into India. Besides the Jzadun, west of the Indus, there are no less than six or seven thousand Parni families at this present time still, located in what we call the “Hazarah District”. The Safi Afghans have descended from another of Parnaey’s sons, who bore the former name, and Safaey was, therefore, a brother of the progenitors of the Jzadun.”