Banu Dhuhl

Banu Dhuhl بنو ذهل
Adnanites
Banner of Banu Dhuhl
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Dhuhli
Location	Arabian Peninsula
Descended from	Dhuhl ibn Tha'laba
Parent tribe	Banu Bakr
Religion	Paganism, later Islam

Banu Dhuhl (Arabic: بنو ذهل) also known as Dhuhal, was an Adnanite Arab tribe descended from Dhuhal ibn Tha'laba.

The tribe of Dhuhl was a branch of the Banu Bakr tribe, less prominent than the other Bakri tribes like the Banu Ijl and Banu Shayban. Although the Banu Dhuhl existed before Islam, there is scant mention in the pre-Islamic Ayyam al-Arab accounts. But, well-known figures of the Dhuhl are recorded in the early Islamic period. Their region of control is not exactly known, thought a branch of the Dhuhl were known to have settled in al-Yamama.^[1]

The lineage of the tribe was Dhuhl ibn Tha'laba ibn Ukaba ibn Sa'b ibn Ali ibn Bakr ibn Wa'il ibn Qasit ibn Hanab ibn Afsa ibn Da'mi ibn Jadila ibn Asad ibn Rabi'a ibn Nizar ibn Ma'ad ibn Adnan.^[2] Therefore, they are Adnanites.

See also

• Tribes of Arabia
• Pre-Islamic Arabia

References

1. Donner, Fred McGraw (1980). "The Bakr B. Wā'il Tribes and Politics in Northeastern Arabia on the Eve of Islam". Studia Islamica (51): 5–38. doi:10.2307/1595370. ISSN 0585-5292. JSTOR 1595370.
2. Al-Qalqashandi (2012-01-01). Nehayat al-Irab fi Ma'aref Ansab al-'Arab (in Arabic). ISBN 978-2-7451-1589-8.