Banu Dabbah

Banu Dabbah بنو ضبة
Adnanite Arabs
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	aḍ-Ḍabbī
Location	Hijaz, Oman
Descended from	Dabbah ibn 'Udd
Religion	South Arabian polytheism (until 630 CE) Islam (currently)

Banu Dabbah (Arabic: بنو ضبة) is an Arab tribe of Adnanite descent. They merged with the Banu Tamim tribe and their descendants are considered to be part of both tribes. The Banu Dabbah currently reside in Oman and the Hijaz.

Tribal lineage

They are descended from Dabbah ibn 'Udd, whose full lineage (according to Ibn Hazm) is Dabbah, son of 'Udd, son of Tabikha, son of Ilyas, son of Mudar, son of Nizar, son of Ma'ad, son of Adnan. This lineage hence makes the Banu Dabbah a tribe descended from the Mudar tribal group as well as an Adnanite tribe.^[1][2]

A family tree of Adnan and his descendants, all the way until Muhammad. The Banu Tamim and the Banu Dabbah (Wa'il Dabbah) are visible in this chart.

The Banu Dabbah merged with Banu Tamim after the progenitor of the latter, Tamim ibn Murr, married a woman from the former.^[2][3]

History

After the Conquest of Mecca in 630 CE, all of the Arabian tribes in the Hijaz and Mecca became Muslims; the Banu Dabbah potentially were amongst them.^[4][5] After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Banu Dabbah fought alongside the forces of Aisha, Zubayr and Talha in the Battle of the Camel in 656 CE.^[5]

In modern times, the Banu Dabbah migrated to the country of Oman while some of them still lived in their villages at Najd.^[6]

Notable people

• Al-Mufaddal ad-Dabbi, 8th-century Arabic philologist and grammarian
• Nur al-Din al-Salimi, scholar of Ibadi Islam

See also

• Tribes of Arabia

References

1. al-Baladhuri, Ahmad ibn Yahya (1936–1971). Schloessinger, Max (ed.). The Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri. Jerusalem: Hebrew University Press.
2. Caskel, Werner; Strenziok, Gert (1966). Ǧamharat an-nasab: das genealogische Werk des Hišām Ibn-Muḥammad al-Kalbī. Leiden: Brill.
3. Ibn Abd Rabbih (1937). Kitāb al-ʿIqd al-Farīd [The Unique Necklace]. Morocco: Maktaba At-Ta'lif At-Taryama Wa'l Nasar.
4. Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman (2008). The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet. Dar-us-Salam Publications. ISBN 978-9960899558
5. al-Qurashi, Baqir Shareef (2010). Shahin, Badr (ed.). The Life of Ali Ibn Abi Talib. Qom, Iran: Ansariyan Publications. ISBN 978-9642191178.
6. al-Marjan fi Qaba'il Hadha al-Zaman (المرجان في قبائل هذا الزمان)