List
The list includes:
- Banu Quraish — prominent in the city of Mecca
- Banu Kinanah — the brothers of Quraish, and they are prominent in and mostly around Mecca
- Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat — the city of Yalamlam and around Yathrib and they are a branch of Banu Kinanah
- Banu Jadhimah — the city of Yalamlam and they are a branch of Banu Kinanah
- Banu Hothail — The Brothers of Khuzaimah, and their neighbors in Mecca
- Banu Thaqif — the city of Ta'if, Urwah ibn Mas'ud
- Banu Bariq — the city of Bareq
- Banu Utub — the city of Najd
- Banu Ghatafan — east of Yathrib and Khaibar
- Banu Tamim — central Arabia
- Banu Sa'ad
- Banu Amr — Umar and his companions stayed with them during the hijrah from Mecca
- Banu Daws — south of Mecca Abu Hurairah
- Banu Abs — Hudhayfah ibn al-Yaman
- Banu Jumah
- Banu Kalb
- Banu Khuza'a — between Mecca and Badr
In Yathrib (later Medina)
- Banu Khazraj
- Banu Aus (Banu Aws)
- Banu Awf
- Banu Najjar
- Banu Harith
- Banu Sa'ida
- Banu Jusham
- Banu Thaalba
- Banu Jaffna
- Banu Shutayba
Jewish tribes:
- Banu Qainuqa — most powerful of all the Jewish tribes of the peninsula before Islam
- The Al-Kahinan — they traced their descent from Aaron
- Banu Qurayza — sub-clan of the Al-Kahinan, Medina, "principal family"
- Banu Nadir — sub-clan of the Al-Kahinan, Medina, "principal family"
Read more about this topic: Arabian Tribes That Interacted With Muhammad
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