Banu Hudhayl

Banu Hudhayl (Arabic: بنو هذيل) is an Arab tribe that originated in the Hejaz. The tribe mainly inhabits Saudi Arabia, Tunisia,^[1] Jordan and Egypt. The tribe was one of the tribes in contact with the Islamic prophet Muhammad and they are known throughout history for their talented poets and intellectuals.

Banu Hudhayl بنو هذيل
Mudarite Arab tribe
Banner of Banu Hudhayl at the Battle of Siffin
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Hudhali
Location	Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Jordan, Egypt
Descended from	Hudhayl ibn Madraka
Parent tribe	Banu Mudar
Branches	Lihyan Mohrez Marer Sa'ad Beni Fleet Zohair Jamil
Language	Arabic
Religion	Sunni Islam

Ancestry

The tribe traces a genealogical history backwards from their eponymous ancestor to Adam:

Hudhayl son of Madrakah son of Ilyas (Elijah) son of Madher son of Nazar son of Ma'ad son of Adnan son of Add son of Send son of Napyot^[2] son of Ishmael^[3][4] son of Abraham^[5][6][7] son of Azar^[8][9][10] (Terah) son of Nahor^[11] son of Srooj^[12] son of Ra'o^[13] son of Phaleg^[14] son of Aber^[15] son of Shaleh^[16][17][18] son of Arpheckshad^[19] son of Sam son of Noah son of Lamek^[20] son of Motoshaleh son of Edres (Enoch) son of Yared son of Mehlaiel son of Qenan son of Anosh son of Seth son of Adam

Branches

 

Approximate locations of some of the important tribes and Empire of the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam (approximately 600 CE / 50 BH).

Banu Hudhayl are divided in two branches: Lihyan ibn Hudhayl and Sa'ad ibn Hudhayl.

Lihyan ibn Hudhayl

The descendants of Lihyan ibn Hudhayl who founded the Arab kingdom of Lihyan, and presently live in the desert between Mecca and Ta'if. They are now divided into two clans:

• Mohrez, subdivided into
  • Alhosianat
  • Aldhban
  • Almosah
• Marer, subdivided into
  • Albatahah
  • Almasaibah
  • Alnegimah
  • Aloodah

Sa'ad ibn Hudhayl

There are presently four descendent clans of Sa'ad ibn Hudhayl:

• Beni, subdivided into
  • Banu Omair
  • Banu Mas'od
  • Banu Mohaiya
  • Banu Nobatah
• Fleet, subdivided into
  • Al-Hatareshah
    • Al-Afran
    • Al-Eyad
    • Hudhayl Albogom
  • Banu Reshah
  • Al-Matarefah
  • Al-Sa'iedah
  • Al-Moatan
• Zohair, subdivided into
  • Al-Srawnah
  • Da'ad
  • Sahelah
  • Zolayfah.
• Jamil, subdivided into
  • Alqarh
  • Al-Mahmud
  • Al-Kedwa (also known as Alkedawi)
  • Al-Sawalima
  • Al-Kabakiba
  • Beni kaeb
  • Bani yas
  • Bani zayd
  • Banu ziad
  • Al-Hasasana
  • Al zalifa
  • Alshaeabin
  • Altalahat
  • Al khalid
  • Albaqla
  • Al hamid
  • Al zaydan
  • Sahila
  • Aleabida
  • Aljawabira
  • Alnnjb

Arabian tribes that interacted with Muhammad

• Banu Kinanah
• Quraish^[21][22]
• Banu Sulaym
• Banu Tamim
• Bani Asad
• Banu Thaqif
• Hawazin
• Ghatafan

Known members

• Abdullah bin Masud, a companion of Muhammad
• Al-Masudi, Abbasid historian
• Adel Al-Jubeir, Saudi diplomat and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
• Ubayd-Allah ibn Abd-Allah, Hadith narrator
• Sinan ibn Salamah ibn Mohbik, Umayyad general and governor of Sindh
• Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, Tunisian Poet
• Abū Dhuʾayb al-Hudhalī, poet contemporary of Muhammad

Notes

1. Ibn Khaldun, Kitab al-Ibar, vol. 2, p. 319.
2. Book of Genesis 25:12-16
3. Ishmael, Encyclopedia of the Qur'an
4. Azraqi, Akhbar Makkah, vol. 1, pp. 58-66
5. Abraham, Sarah and Hagar 2011-07-25 at the Wayback Machine - James D. Brown
6. Genesis 16:1-6
7. Qur'an 2:127 to 136
8. Qur'an 6:74
9. Islamic view of Abraham
10. Qur'an 37:99–111
11. Luke 3:35
12. Book of Genesis11:20-23
13. Genesis 11:20
14. Genesis 10:25
15. Adamic language
16. Genesis 10:24
17. Genesis 11:12-13
18. Luke 3:36
19. Book of Genesis 10:22, 24; 11:10-13; 1 Chron. 1:17-18
20. Luke 3:37
21. Quraish
22. Quraysh (sura)

Further reading

• History Ibn Khaldun
• History Ibn al-Athir
• History Ibn Hisham
• History Al-Hamdani
• History Ibn Ishaq
• 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

• http://lahyan.net/vb/archive/index.php/t-24.html^{[permanent dead link]}
• http://www.tmeme.com/vb/showthread.php?t=342
• 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^{[permanent dead link]}
• http://sirah.al-islam.com/SearchDisp.asp?ID=1672&SearchText=هذيل%20بن%20مدركة&SearchType=root&Scope=all&Offset=20&SearchLevel=QBE^{[permanent dead link]}
• 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