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Here is the history of Banu Khuza'ah

History of Khuza'a in English
History of Khuza'a in Arabic

The Banu Khuzaʿah

(Arabic: بنو خزاعة, singular خزاعيّ Khuzāʿī)

Their lineage goes back to the Prophet Ismail and is an Azdite, Qahtanite tribe, one of the main ancestral tribes of Arabia. They ruled Mecca for more than 400 years before the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and many members of the tribe now live in and around that city. Others are also present in significant numbers in countries such as Iraq, Palestine, and Jordan, but they can also be found across the Middle East.
The Banu Khuzaʿa hacted as the custodians of Mecca before the Quraysh. They were the ruling kings of the emirate of Lower Mesopotamia (now southern Iraq) until the Ottoman Empire's invasion in the late 19th century, and they were the rulers of the kingdom of the Middle Euphrates until the early 20th century.

Rule of the Banu Khuza'a over Mecca

They ruled Mecca for 400 years before the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Connection with the Genealogy of Muhammad 

The genealogy of Muhammad is connected to that of Khuza'ah in two ways: firstly by way of his third great grandfather Abd Manaf bin Qusay; and also through his marriage to the ‘Mother of the Believers’ Juwayrīyah, daughter of al-Ḥārith al-Khuza'i.

After the Banu Khuza'a allied with the Prophet Muhammad, the people of Mecca and Quraysh decided not to marry the Banu Khuza'ah, so intermarriage became restricted to the Banu Hashim and Banu Khuza'ah.

Khuza'ah in the Arab countries

(Modern day)

Many descendants of the tribe still live in their original homeland, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, but members of the tribe also live in other countries, such as Palestine, Iraq, Qatar,Bahrain, and Jordan.


How did they get to Iraq?

At the beginning of the Islamic conquests, the sons of Khuza'ah were among the conquerors during the time of Caliph Omar bin Al-Khattab. Most of them lived in Basra and Kufa around the year 17 AH. The Khuza'ah had a neighborhood famous for their name called (Khuza'ah Neighborhood) in Old Kufa in the Tal Al-Tarab area.They then spread to the cities and towns of Iraq. Among them were the distinguished companion Suleiman bin Sarad, the companion Amr bin Al-Hamq, the companion Alqamah bin Khalid, who was the last of the companions remaining in Kufa, the famous poet Da'bal bin Ali Al-Khuza'i, and others. The men of Khuza'ah in Iraq also played an important role in the Abbasid state, which was established in the year 132 AH, when five men from Khuza'ah were chosen as captains of the Abbasid tribe,with Suleiman bin Katheer Al-Khuza'i becoming head of the captains. They maintained their influence in Iraq and played an effective role,owning the entire desert of the Levant and the central Euphrates for four centuries until the early 20th century. (Even in the modern era, they play an active role in political positions.)




Banu Khuza’ah village remains

Castle of Dhrab

Map of Iraq 1850

Banu Khuza'ah flag

Baalbek

Baalbek

Under Islamic Rule: The Emirate of the Harfush Family (1516 AD - 1866 AD) during Ottoman Rule )
The famous princes of the Harfush family, rulers of Baalbek, trace their lineage to Harfush Al-Khuza'i, from the Khuza'ah tribe of Iraq.

Black Stone

Black Stone

The Black Stone in the Kaaba.

In Saudi Arabia:

  • Khuza'a in the Holy city of Mecca: in Wādī Fāṭimah and what used to be known as Wādī Ẓahrān):
    • Dhawī al-Mafraḥ
    • Dhawī al-Harazi
    • Dhawī Maddah
    • Dhawī Mahdī
    • Dhawī Ḥāmid
    • Dhawī Muhammad
  • Khuza'a of the open country (Wādī Malkān)
  • Al-Talḥah, and they are subdivided into:
    • Āl Sirāj
    • Āl ‘Awwāḑ (al-Maṭrān and Āl Turkī)
    • Al-Ḥanashah
    • (Āl Radād) al-Sawālimah
    • Al-Qawāsiyah
  • Āl Mash’āb (and they are the sons of ibn Sadaqah)
    • Āl bin Rashīd
  • Al-Shimārīn, and they are divided into:
    • Āl Ghaṭaysh
    • Āl Mubārak (among them are Āl Marzūq)
    • Āl ‘Awād
    • Āl ‘Āyad
    • Āl ‘Alī (al-Ghuraybah)
  • Khuza'a of the Sea (Baḥrah)
    • Al-Saqāriyah

Khuza'a ofTihamah‘Asīr

  • Al-Munjiḥah (al-Munjiḥī) (their homes are in al-Qumḥah on the coast of Tihamah, between al-Barq and Shaqīq; among their villages are in al-Khashāfah, Dhahbān and al-Fattāḥ; and one of their watering places (mawārid) is al-Qu’r.) They include:
    • Amkharīṣ (Kharīṣ)
    • Al-‘Abdīyah
    • Āl Zayd
    • Umm Muḥāwish (Muḥāwish)
    • Āl Saryāḥ
    • Al-Ma’yūf
    • Al-Shahbī
    • Wuld Islām
    • Umm Muḥmaḑī
    • Am’awaḑ
    • Al-Raws
    • Amqub’ah
  • Al-Rīsh: and their dwellings are in Tihamah, north-east of Maḥayal ‘Asīr.
  • Khuza'a ofAl-AḥsāProvince.
    • Al-Ramaḑān
    • Āl 'Abd al-Salām
    • Āl Ḥawāj(al-Ḥawāj)

In Iraq:

  • Al Kazale
  •  Al-Khaza'ai
    • Āl Ṣaqar
    • Āl Ḥāj ‘Abdullāh
    • Āl Shabīb bin Salmān
    • Āl Ḥāj Muḥsin bin Salmān
    • Āl Dāwūd bin Salmān
    • Āl Ghānim bin Salmān
    • Āl Karnūṣ bin Salmān
    • Āl Darwīsh bin Salmān
    • Āl Danyūs bin Salmān
    • Āl ‘Ajrash bin Salmān
    • Āl Kahw bin Salmān
    • Āl Jassās bin Salmān
  • ‘Ashīrahs of Āl Ḥamd bin ‘Abbās al-Khuzā’ī.
    • Albū Ḥamd
    • Albū Muḥammad
    • Albū Jaffāl
    • Āl ‘Abbās
    • Āl ‘Abdullāh
    • Āl Ḥusayn
    • Āl Sa’dūn
    • Āl Suwayd
  • The ‘Ashirahs of Salmān al-Awwal al-Khuzā’ī
    • Āl Ḥamūdī
    • Āl Hilāl
    • Āl Ya’qūb
  • ‘Ashīrahs of Āl Mihnā including al-Ḥays bin Salmān al-Awwal
    • Āl Mihnā
    • Albū al-Dīn
    • Albū Khazˁal
    • Albū Khuḑayr
    • Āl Qadarī
    • Āl Shams
    • Āl Rashīd
  • ‘Ashīrahs of Āl Māni’ Maqṭa’ al-Ru’ūs bin Muḥsin bin Jundayl
    • Albū Ḥalīl
    • Albū Kandaj
    • Albū ‘Ibādī
  • ‘Ashīrahs of Āl Ramaḑān bin Salmān al-Awwal
    • Al-Ramaḑān: and they live mainly in the countries of thePersian Gulf.
    • Āl ‘Imrān al-Ramaḑān (living inBaghdad)
  • The ‘Ashīrah of the Āl Juwaykh bin Salmān al-Awwal al-Khuzā’ī
  • The ‘Ashīrah of Āl Fāris bin Salmān al-Awwal al-Khuzā’ī.
    • Āl Marzah (living inNajdand Baghdad)
  • The ‘Ashīrah of al-Ḥamāḥimah, descendants of Ḥāmī bin Muḥammad bin Mahnā bin Ismā’īl bin Salmān al-Awwal al-Khuzā’ī.
    • Āl Dāwūd
    • Āl Shāhir
    • Abū Shakīlah
    • Āl Lāyadh
  • Hamid Bin Hamoud Al-khuzai was the ruler, King and Emir of the Emirate of the Middle Euphrates in Southern Iraq.

In Jordan:

  • Al-Rousān
  • Al-Duwayk (Al Duwek or Al Doweik)
  • Al-Khuzāˁilah in the central and northern deserts (bādiyah).
  • Al-Khuza'i
  • Al-Buṣūl in northern Jordan
  • Al-Kufahiin the area of al-Bāriḥah
  • Al-Farihat, and among them is the Shaykh Rāshid al-Khuza'i
  • Āl Harfush (al-Harafishah)
  • Āl Harfush (al-Harafishah) in Wādī al-Sarḥān
  • Āl Harfush (al-Harafishah) inal-Mafraq.

In Palestine:

  • Āl Quydayḥ, among them:
    • Āl ‘Alī
    • Āl Subḥ
    • Āl Ruḑwān
    • Āl Rajīlah
    • Āl Rūk
  • Al-Duwaykāt
  • Āl Najjār
    • Āl Shanīnū
    • Āl Jāmūs
  • Āl Harfush: al-Harafishah, and among them are Ṣāfī and Zayd and ‘Īsā ‘Nakhlah’, sons of the Emir Salām bin Harfush, originally from the village of Bayt Nabālah.
    • Abū Raydah
    • Al-Qarrā
    • Āl Harfush - al-Harafishah (Kharbatā al-Miṣbāḥ).
    • Āl Harfush – al-Harafishah (al-Maghār)

In other countries:

  • Bahrain
    • Āl Ramaḑān
    • Āl ‘Abd al-Salām
    • Āl Ḥawāj (al-Hawāj)
    • Al-Ṭawwāsh
    • Bin ‘
    • Al-Qaṭṭārah (al-Qaṭarī)
    • Al-Khuzā’ī
  • Qatar
    • Bin ‘Abbās
    • Al-Khuzā’ī
  • Egypt
    • Āl Ḥarfūsh – al-Ḥarāfishah (Banhā)
    • Āl Ḥarfūsh – al-Ḥarāfishah (Al-Bakātūsh,Kafar al-Shaykh)
  • Kuwait
  • Bayt al-‘Arīsh
    • Āl ‘Abd al-Salām
    • Āl Ramaḑān
    • Āl Hawāj (al-Hawāj)
  • Lebanon
  • Syria
    • Albū ‘Ājūz in Aleppo, they came from Iraq to Syria and all have their written family trees leading back to ‘Amr bin Luḥay.
  • America
    • There is a large network of members of Khuzā’ah, belonging to the Āl Ḥarfūsh – al-Ḥarāfishah, dating back to the 1920s.
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