Humaydah
Arab tribe
title: "Humaydah" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["qahtanites", "arab-ethnic-groups", "tribes-of-arabia", "tribes-of-saudi-arabia", "yemeni-tribes", "banu-bariq"] description: "Arab tribe" topic_path: "general/qahtanites" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humaydah" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Arab tribe ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| group | Banu Humaydah |
| image_caption | Portrait of a young man from the Humaydah tribe with two boys in Bareq By Wilfred Thesiger 1946. |
| population | 30,000. |
| popplace | Bareq, Al-Majardah |
| langs | Arabic |
| rels | Islam |
| :: |
| group = Banu Humaydah | image = | image_caption = Portrait of a young man from the Humaydah tribe with two boys in Bareq By Wilfred Thesiger 1946. | population =30,000. | popplace = Bareq, Al-Majardah | langs = Arabic | rels = Islam | related = Humaydah (also transliterated as Humaidah, ), is an Arab tribe, 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.
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
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.
Humaydah branches
- Al-Hajri
- Al-Salim
- Maha'mula
- Aaram (Al-Aram)
- Gdraymah (Al-Gdraymah)
- Fseel (Al-Fseel)
Influential people of Bariq
- Humaydah al-Bariqi— chief
- Al-Nu'man ibn Humaydah – chief
- Hamed al-Bariqi
References
References
- 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". Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn.
- al-Bariqi, Mahmood Aal-Shobaily. (2001). "Al-Shariq: fi tarikh wa jughrāfīat bilād Bāriq". [[King Fahad National Library.
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=zFkxAAAAIAAJ&q=+bariq Subcontractor's monograph on Saudi Arabia page 60 ]،
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=-OMJAQAAIAAJ&q=Baraq+Humaidah+ Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula ]،
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=X4bVAAAAMAAJ&q=Hajri+ A Handbook of Arabia: Volume I. General p416 ]،
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