Banu Hudhayl

Hudhayl هذيل
Mudari Arab tribe
Banner of Banu Hudhayl at the Battle of Siffin
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Hudhali
Location	Saudi Arabia, Jordan
Descended from	Hudhayl ibn Madraka
Branches	Lihyan Mohrez Marer Sa'ad Beni Fleet Zohair Jamil
Religion	Paganism, later Islam

Hudhayl or Hothail or Huthail (Arabic: هذيل) is an Adnanite tribe of western Saudi Arabia in Hijjaz. The tribe is known throughout the history for their talented poets and intellectuals. They are settled mainly in Saudi Arabia and a few thousands in Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Algeria.

Ancestry[]

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

Hothail 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^[1] son of Ishmael^[2][3] son of Abraham^[4][5][6] son of Azar^[7][8][9] (Terah) son of Nahor^[10] son of Srooj^[11] son of Ra'o^[12] son of Phaleg^[13] son of Aber^[14] son of Shaleh^[15][16][17] son of Arpheckshad^[18] son of Sam son of Noah son of Lamek^[19] 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 Huthail are divided in two branches: Lihyan ibn Hothail and Sa'ad ibn Hothail.

Lihyan ibn Hothail[]

The descendants of Lihyan ibn Hothail 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 Hothail[]

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

• Beni, subdivided into
  • Banu Omair
  • Banu Mas'od
  • Banu Mohaiya
  • Banu Nobatah
• Fleet, subdivided into
  • Al-Hatareshah
    • Al-Afran
    • Al-Eyad
    • Hothail 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^[20][21]
• Banu Sulaym
• Banu Tamim
• Bani Asad
• Banu Thaqif
• Hawazin
• Ghatafan

Known Members[]

• Adel Aljubir
• Abdullah bin Masud
• Al-Masudi

Notes[]

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[]

• 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^{[permanent dead link]}
• http://www.tmeme.com/vb/showthread.php?t=342
• https://web.archive.org/web/20080403064904/http://www.thearabhistory.com/mudar
• 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://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&pg=PA155&dq=Lihyan&lr=
• https://books.google.com/books?id=CR9iAgUwmTEC&pg=PA338&dq=Lihyan&lr=
• https://books.google.com/books?id=SLvnnT31Du0C&pg=PA230&lpg=PA230&dq=%22Hodhail%22&source=bl&ots=GkklnIdE4X&sig=Kzt-WdMasrCFAZ9jPzm6dC2TGtU&hl=ar&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result#PPA230,M1
• http://www.familytreedna.com/public/J1arabproject/default.aspx
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090208095900/http://whitebook.com/p_1_en.htm