Banu Hothail
Banu Hothail are an Adnanite tribe of western Saudi Arabia in Hijjaz.[1] They are descended from Hothail, who was a grandson of Ilyas (known as Elijah in Jewish and Christian traditions) who was named after the prophet Elijah.[2][3]
Ancestry
The tribe traces a genealogical history backwards from their eponymous ancestor [4] 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 [5] son of Napyot [6] son of Ishmael [7][7][8] son of Abraham [9][10][11] son of Azar [12][13][14] (Terah) son of Nahoor [15] son of Srooj [16] son of Ra'o [17] son of Phaleg [18] son of Aber [19] son of Shaleh [20][21][22] son of Arpheckshad [23] son of Sam [24] son of Noah son of Lamek [25] son of Motoshaleh son of Edres (Enoch) son of Yared son of Mehlaiel son of Qenan son of Anosh son of Sheeth son of Adam
Branches
Banu Hothail 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 Jeddah. 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
- Alhatareshah
- Alafran
- Al Eyad
- Hothail Albogom
- Banu Reshah
- Almatarefah
- Alsa'iedah
- Almoatan
- Almasodah, subdivided into
- Alqrrah
- Alawiyyon
- Alkabakebah
- Banu Eyas
- Algawaberah
- Alsawalemah
- Al Zaid
- Banu Qa'ab
- Alhawazemah
- Altalhat
- Al Aaley
- Alnadawe'en
- Al Sawaherah
- Al Zawaheraah ( They're Aliase with Hothail, And they're Descended from Zubaydah )
- Al Hekman ( They're Aliase with Hothail, And they're Descended from Quraish )
- Zohair, subdivided into
- AlSrawnah
- Da'ad
- Sahelah
- Zolayfah.
relative tribes [26]
reliable references
Further reading
- History Ibn Khaldoun
- 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
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