Banu Hudhayl () is an
Arab
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Arabs have been in the Fertile Crescent for thousands of years ...
tribe that originated in the
Hejaz
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. The tribe mainly inhabits
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia. Located in the centre of the Middle East, it covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula and has a land area of about , making it the List of Asian countries ...
,
Tunisia
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,
Jordan
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and
Egypt
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. The tribe was one of the tribes in contact with the
Islamic
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prophet
Muhammad
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and they are known throughout history for their talented poets and intellectuals, as well as their help in
repelling the Qarmatians in the 10th-century
Sack of Mecca
The Sack of Mecca occurred on 11 January 930, when the Qarmatians of Eastern Arabia, Bahrayn sacked the Muslim holy city amidst the rituals of the Hajj pilgrimage.
The Qarmatians, a radical Isma'ili sect established in Bahrayn since the turn of ...
.
Ancestry
The tribe traces a genealogical history backwards from their eponymous ancestor to
Adam
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According to Christianity, Adam ...
:
Hudhayl
son of Madrakah son of Ilyas (Elijah) son of
Madher son of Nazar son of
Ma'ad son of
Adnan
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son of Add son of Send son of
Napyot son of
Ishmael
In the Bible, biblical Book of Genesis, Ishmael (; ; ; ) is the first son of Abraham. His mother was Hagar, the handmaiden of Abraham's wife Sarah. He died at the age of 137. Traditionally, he is seen as the ancestor of the Arabs.
Within Isla ...
[''Ishmael'', Encyclopedia of the Qur'an] son of
Abraham
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son of
Azar (Terah) son of
Nahor son of
Srooj son of
Ra'o son of
Phaleg son of
Aber son of
Shaleh son of
Arpheckshad son of
Sam son of
Noah
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son of
Lamek son of
Motoshaleh son of
Edres (Enoch) son of
Yared son of
Mehlaiel son of
Qenan son of
Anosh son of
Seth
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son of
Adam
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According to Christianity, Adam ...
Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad
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Banu Kinanah
Kinana () is an Arab tribe based around Mecca in the Tihama coastal area and the Hejaz mountains. The Quraysh of Mecca, the tribe of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, was an offshoot of the Kinana. A number of modern-day tribes throughout the Arab w ...
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Quraish[ Quraysh (sura)]
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Banu Sulaym
The Banu Sulaym () is an Arab tribe that dominated part of the Hejaz in the pre-Islamic era. They maintained close ties with the Quraysh of Mecca and the inhabitants of Medina, and fought in a number of battles against the Islamic prophet Muha ...
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Banu Tamim
The Banū Tamīm () are an Arab tribe that originated in Najd and Hejaz in the Arabian Peninsula. It is mainly present in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Jordan and Lebanon, and has a strong presence in Algeria, and Morocco, Palestine, ...
* Bani Asad
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Banu Thaqif
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Hawazin
The Hawazin ( / ALA-LC: ''Hawāzin'') were an Arab tribe originally based in the western Najd and around Ta'if in the Hejaz. They formed part of the larger Qays tribal group. The Hawazin consisted of the subtribes of Banu Sa'd, and Banu Jusham, a ...
*
Ghatafan
Known members
*
Abdullah bin Masud, a
companion of Muhammad
*
Al-Masudi
al-Masʿūdī (full name , ), –956, was a historian, geographer and traveler. He is sometimes referred to as the "Herodotus of the Arabs". A polymath and prolific author of over twenty works on theology, history (Islamic and universal), geo ...
,
Abbasid
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historian
*
Adel Al-Jubeir,
Saudi diplomat and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
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Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah
Ubayd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Zuhayr ibn Abd Allah ibn Jud'an al-Taymi () was a Medinian hadith narrator. He was possibly the ''Judge (Islamic law), qadi'' of Ta'if for caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr (). He retold the event of the pen and paper as ...
,
Hadith
Hadith is the Arabic word for a 'report' or an 'account f an event and refers to the Islamic oral tradition of anecdotes containing the purported words, actions, and the silent approvals of the Islamic prophet Muhammad or his immediate circle ...
narrator
*
Sinan ibn Salamah ibn Mohbik,
Umayyad
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general and governor of
Sindh
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*
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi,
Tunisian Poet
* Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī, poet contemporary of Muhammad
Notes
Further reading
* History
Ibn Khaldun
Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 Hijri year, AH) was an Arabs, Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and cons ...
* History
Ibn al-Athir
* History
Ibn Hisham
* History
Al-Hamdani
* History
Ibn Ishaq
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (; – , known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer who collected oral traditions that formed the basis of an important biography of the Islamic proph ...
* Kinship and marriage in early Arabia by \ Smith W. Robertson
* A universal history, from the earliest accounts to the present time by \ Universal
* ''The Koran, Commonly Called the Alcoran of Mohammed'' by
George Sale, Savary
* A Short History of the Arabs by \ Francesco Gabrieli, Salvator Attanasio
* The March from Medina by \ John Walter Jandora
* Muhammad by \ Muhammad Zafrulla Khan
* Mohammed and the Rise of Islam by \ D. S. Margoliouth
* History of Arabia, Ancient and Modern by \ Andrew Crichton
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080316215832/http://www.hathailly.com/vb/showthread.php?t=11324
* http://lahyan.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-24.html
* http://www.tmeme.com/vb/showthread.php?t=342
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080403064904/http://www.thearabhistory.com/mudar
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Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad
* http://sirah.al-islam.com/SearchDisp.asp?ID=113&SearchText=هذيل%20بن%20مدركة&SearchType=root&Scope=all&Offset=20&SearchLevel=QBE
* http://sirah.al-islam.com/SearchDisp.asp?ID=1672&SearchText=هذيل%20بن%20مدركة&SearchType=root&Scope=all&Offset=20&SearchLevel=QBE
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100222125145/http://sirah.al-islam.com/tree.asp?ID=1&t=book2
* https://web.archive.org/web/20080309174242/http://sirah.al-islam.com/Display.asp?f=rwd1012
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100122083326/http://sirah.al-islam.com/Display.asp?f=rwd1014
* https://books.google.com/books?id=baw9AAAAIAAJ&dq=Lihyan&pg=PA155
* https://books.google.com/books?id=CR9iAgUwmTEC&pg=PA338&dq=Lihyan&lr=
* https://books.google.com/books?id=SLvnnT31Du0C&dq=%22Hodhail%22&pg=PA230
* http://www.familytreedna.com/public/J1arabproject/default.aspx
* https://web.archive.org/web/20090208095900/http://whitebook.com/p_1_en.htm
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