“All the horses go back to the Fudul”
It’s an exaggeration but this is what Hamid ibn Mudhi al-Suhayyan, the Shammari owner of the marbat of Ubayyan Ibn Suhayyan, told me in 2006. At the time I did not fully grasp the significance of what he had said. After reading the initial stories about the foundation of every strain in the Abbas Pasha Manuscript, I now see what he meant.
Bani Lam, a Najd branch of the Tai tribe, broke into four tribes sometime in the mid 1650s: Dhafeer, Fudul, Aal Kathir, and Aal Mughirah. The first three migrated easterwards, towards Iraq shortly after, because of pressures from the Sharif of Mecca, the rise power of the Shammar conferation (which was part Tai and part ‘Abidah/Qahtan) and a devastating famine known as Jarman. Today the Aal Kathir are considered part of the Dhafeer.
The following strains were created with one or another of the branches of the Bani Lam. By “created”, I mean that they acquired their separate names as distinct branches of the Kuhaylan tree:
- Hadban (Dhafeer branch, at Mani’ of Dhafeer, then to Nzahi of Fudul)
- Wadnan (Fudul branch, at al-Khursan of Fudul)
- Shuwayman (Fudul branch, at Sabbah of Fudul)
- Mimrah (Aal Mughirah branch, started as Kuhaylan ‘Ajuz at ‘Ijl ibn Hulaythim the head of Aal Mughirah, then was named Mimrah with the Sba’ah much later)
- Hamdani Simri (Dhafeer branch, at Simri of Dhafeer)
The first traces to Kuhaylan Abu Ma’arif, the other four to Kuhaylan al-‘Ajuz.
Oh, so interesting! Also fascinating to see the four strains that emerged at the same time, and how Hadban, Shuwayman and Wadnan have become sufficiently well-known over time in the west for them to be viewed as quite independent of each other, with their own epithets, i.e. Hadban Enzahi, Shuwayman Sabbah, Wadnan Khursan, while Mimrah remains best-known as a Kuhaylan substrain.
All is correct, but don’t forget al saqlawiyah strain it was tracking back to them especially al sardiya and also al sardiya from Mafarja from al Mughirah, even shuweymah sabah from al Fudul.
really? the sardiyah are derived from aal mughirah?
Yeah really al sardiyah from al Mafarja from al Mughirah from Banu lam. and can you Search it by historical Jordanian books by al fawaz the sheikhs of Hauran also spelled Hawran or Houran… parts of southern Syria and northern Jordan.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Princes_of_Hauran_-_Al-Fawwaz_Sheikhs_of_the_Sardiyyah_Clan.jpg
Thank you for this Ahmad. I always wondered about al-Sardiyah. What about Aal ‘Issa?
Yeah really al sardiyah from al Mafarja from al Mughirah from Banu lam. and can you Search it by historical Jordanian books by Al-Fawwaz Sheikhs the Sardiyyah Clan of Hauran also spelled Hawran or Houran… parts of southern Syria and northern Jordan.
Al issa from al fadal Rab??ah from Tayy tribe and Once the time they are Cousins of al fadoul tribe from Banu lam and al al sardiyah also. abut al mouali it’s just Alliance of a Tayy tribe.
so Aal Fadl (Aal Issa bin Muhanna from Rabi’ah) are different from al-Fudul right?
So al issa or issa bin muhann from AlFadl ibn Rabi’ah
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Fadl
this is a really really good article. I wish I had written it! Do you know who wrote it?
There is no any difference between al fadal Rabi’ah and al fadoul Banu lam.. Its just only Cousins.. because al issa-from al fadal from Tayy directly but al fadoul from Banu lam from Tayy.
and abut.. Who wrote it?
Tribal genealogists or Genealogists of Tayy tribe.
thank you. this is clear.