Humaydah
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 30,000.[1] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Bareq, Al-Majardah | |
| Languages | |
| Arabic | |
| Religion | |
| Islam |
Humaydah (also transliterated as Humaidah, Arabic: حميضة), is an Arab tribe,[2] a subgroup of the Bariq tribe of the Qahtanite people. They were a powerful house which governed the city of Bareq until the Ibn Saud invasion and lived peacefully beside al-Ali.[3]
Kinahan Cornwallis Said (1916):" Humeidah. Live in the western part of the district along the Muhail-Qunfudah road from Dhahab to 'Aqabet es-Suhul and extend down the 'Aqabah to Ghar el- Hindi. Consisting of 7,000 men, of whom 4,000 are nomads٫Their Chief Sheikh is Mohammed Ibn Haiazah.»
Naval Intelligence Handbooks (1916): "The most important tribe is the Humeidah, numbering 7,000 men, of whom 4,000 are nomads. They occupy the western part of the district, and the Muha'il- Qunfudah road from Dhahab to Ghar el-Hindi is in their territory. They quarrel with the Al Isba'i and are divided amongst themselves, the villagers favouring the Turks, the nomads Idrisi. Taken as a whole the tribes support Idrisi, with the exception of the settled Humeidah, and pay him taxes. They are peaceful and pleasure-loving, and by no means fond of war. At the same time they are not above harrying small Turkish convoys.»
Wilfred Thesiger (1946): "This desolate country continued until we reached the wadi khat and the cultivated lands of the Humaidha tribe at barik who resemble the 'Amara and live in well-built, flat-roofed, stone houses. These sedentary tribes own a few camels, some cattle, and fair-sized herds of sheep and goats. They are however essentially cultivators who grow dhurra or "dukhn" (bull-rush millet), either on small plains irrigated by the floods or on the silt of the stream beds.»
Origin
[edit]Banu Humaydah trace their origin to Humaydah b. al-Harith b. Awf b. Amr b. Sa'd b. Thailbh b. Kinanah b. Bariq . They lived in Bareq with the other Bariq tribes, Al-Musa ibn Ali, Al- Isb'ai and Al-Jabali.[4][5]
Humaydah branches
[edit]Influential people of Bariq
[edit]- Humaydah al-Bariqi— chief
- Al-Nu'man ibn Humaydah – chief
- Hamed al-Bariqi
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Bariqi, Aḥmad ibn Marīf. Qabā'il Bāriq al-mu'āṣirah min al-'aṣr al-Jāhilī ilá al-'aṣr al-ḥadīth.
- ^ Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan (1988). Kitāb Jamharat al-lughah. Bayrūt, Lubnān: Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn. OCLC 20489173.
- ^ al-Bariqi, Mahmood Aal-Shobaily (2001) [Republished 2001]. Al-Shariq: fi tarikh wa jughrāfīat bilād Bāriq. Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Wataniyah. p. 279. ISBN 9960-39969-9.
- ^ Subcontractor's monograph on Saudi Arabia page 60 ،
- ^ Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula ،
- ^ A Handbook of Arabia: Volume I. General p416 ،
These prefixes ignored in the alphabetical ordering: Al, Bani, Banu. | |
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Part of Arab tribes |
