Banu Bakr - Tribe Tree / Classic Relations

Tribe Tree / Classic Relations

The following are some of the related and sub-tribes of Bakr ibn Wa'il in the pre-Islamic and early-Islamic eras:

  • Adnanite, Canaanite/Hejaz or "Northwestern Arabian" (Northern Arabian Red Sea coast)
    • Rabi`ah (ربيعة), migrated northwards and eastwards from Hejaz, for example to Diyar Rabi'a in Al-Jazirah
      • Bakr ibn Wa'il, Nejd, bedouin sections migrated before Islam to Diyar Bakr in Al-Jazirah.
        • Banu Hanifa - mostly sedentary, were the principal tribe of al-Yamama (the region around modern-day Riyadh).
        • Banu Shayban - mostly nomadic (bedouin), led the Battle of Dhi Qar against the Sassanid Persians in southern Iraq prior to Islam. The jurist Ahmad ibn Hanbal claimed descent from this tribe.
        • Banu Qays ibn Tha'labah - bedouin and sedentary, were the inhabitants of the town of Manfuha (now part of Riyadh). The pre-Islamic poets al-A'sha and Tarafah were among its members.
        • Banu Yashkur - bedouin and sedentary, inhabitants of al-Yamama. Al-Harith ibn Hillizah, one of the purported authors of the Seven Hanged Poems of pre-Islamic Arabia, was a member of Yashkur.
        • Banu 'Ijl - mostly bedouin, located in al-Yamama and the southern borders of Mesopotamia.
      • Abdul Qays
      • `Anizzah, nomadic branch in the steppes bordering Syria and Mesopotamia, sedentary Bani Hizzan in Al-Yamama in eastern Najd
      • Taghlib ibn Wa'il, migrated northwards to the Jazirah plain in northern Mesopotamia in the 6th century.
      • Anz ibn Wa'il
      • al-Nammir ibn Qasit
    • Mudhar, nomadic branches, famous subtribes and clans: Quraysh

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