Banū Tamīm بَنُو تَمِيم
Mudarite Arab tribe
The Banner ofBanu Sa'd ibn Zayd Manat of Banu Tamim in theBattle of Siffin
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Tamīmī ٱلتَّمِيمِيّ
Location	Arabia,North Africa, andLevant
Descended from	Tamim ibn Murr, the son of Murr ibn 'Udd ibn Amr (Tabikhah) ibn Ilyas ibnMudar ibnNizar ibnMa'add ibnAdnan[1]
Parent tribe	Banu Mudar
Branches	Banu Amr Banu Anbar Banu Usayd Banu Asad Banu Malik Banu Harith Banu Qalib Banu Sa'd Banu Kab Banu Amr Banu Harith Banu Malik Banu Awafa Banu Jashm Banu Abd Shams Banu Hanzala Banu Malik Banu Yarbu' Banu Haram Banu Rabi'a Banu Amr Banu Marah Banu Ghalib Banu Kulfa Banu Qays Banu Rabbab Banu Uday Banu Tim Banu Tawr Banu Awf Banu Dabba
Language	Arabic
Religion	Islam
Surnames	Al Thani Al Anbari Al Yahya Al Awadhi Al Rashed Al Wahibi

TheBanū Tamīm (Arabic:بَنُو تَمِيم) are anArab tribe that originated inNajd andHejaz in theArabian Peninsula.^[2] It is mainly present inSaudi Arabia,Qatar,Kuwait,Iraq,^[3]Oman,^[4]Jordan andLebanon, and has a strong presence inAlgeria,^[5][6] andMorocco,^[3]Palestine,Tunisia,^[7] andLibya.^[3] It is also present in many other parts of theMiddle East and North Africa region such asEgypt andKhuzestan inIran.^[3] The wordTamim in Arabic means strong and solid.^[8][9] It can also mean those who strive for perfection.^[10]

The traditional family tree of the Banu Tamim is as follows:Tamim ibn Murr ibn 'Udd ibn Amr ibn Ilyas ibnMudar^[1] binNizar binMa'add binAdnan^[11] - a direct descendant ofIsma'il bin Ibrahim (Ishmael, son ofAbraham).^[12]

The Banu Tamim are one of the largesttribes of Arabia. The tribe occupied numerousWadis and villages incentral andeastern Arabia in the 6th century before playing an important role in the beginning of Islam. They came into contact withMuhammad in the 8th year ofHijrah, but did not immediately convert toIslam.^{[citation needed]} There arehadiths which praise virtually all of the major Arab tribal groups.

I have continued to love Banu Tamim after I heard three things concerning them from Allah's Messenger: "They will be the sternest of myUmmah against theDajjal," one of them was a captive owned byAisha, and he said: "Free her, for she is a descendant of Ismail," and when their zakat came, he said: "This is thezakat of our people," or "of my people.""

— Abu Hurairah^[13][14]

The Banu Tamim are anAdnanite tribe, descended fromAdnan.

In the genealogical tradition of the tribe, it is argued that there is a direct line that can be drawn fromAbraham to Tamim:

• Abraham
• Ishmael
• Adnan
• Ma'ad
• Nizar
• Mudar
• Ilyas
• Amr (Tabikhah)
• 'Ud
• Murr
• Tamim

The tribe is mainly divided into four main branches, namely:

• Amr
• Banu Hanzala
• Banu Sa'd
• Al-Rabbab

The tribe was mainly concentrated in the central and northern parts ofNajd before thespread of Islam, but had spread across the Arabian Peninsula after the Islamic conquest of the region, then spread to areas ruled by subsequent caliphates.

The tribe extends west toMorocco and east toKhuzestan. After theIslamic conquests, the tribe migrated to modern-dayTunisia,^[7]Iraq,^[3]Morocco,^[3] theKhuzestan andKhorasan regions ofIran, and other parts of theArab world. The Banu Tamim held significant power for centuries in these areas, in the form of theAghlabids and other minor dynasties.

• Aghlabids – ruling dynasty ofIfriqiya (modern-dayTunisia,Algeria, andLibya) from 800 to 909 which also controlled parts ofsouthern Italy andSicily.
• Al Thani – ruling dynasty ofQatar since 1847.
• Al ash-Sheikh – family of theGrand Muftis of theEmirate of Diriyah, then theEmirate of Najd and now modern-daySaudi Arabia for religious matters.
• Al Khater – family of theMiddle East based primarily inQatar,Saudi Arabia, andBahrain.
• Al Majali – family based inAl-Karak in modern-dayJordan since the 1770s.
• Al Mu'ammar – ruling dynasty ofNajd based inAl-'Uyaynah from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, their lineage goes back to the Anaqir of Banu Tamim.

Medieval andPre-Islamic:

• Khabbab ibn al-Aratt – acompanion of Muhammad^[15]
• Ahnaf ibn Qais – companion ofUmar ibn al-Khattab
• Al-Qa'qa'a ibn Amr at-Tamimi – ARashidun general, participated in both the conquest of theLevant and theSassanid Iran.
• Al-Hurr ibn Yazid al Tamimi – A general of theUmayyads who defected toHusayn ibn Ali
• Abu Al Fazal Abdul Wahid Yemeni Tamimi – Muslim saint Of the Junaidia order
• Abd-Allah ibn Ibadh al-Tamimi^[16] – Founder of theIbadi sect
• Alqama al-Fahl - Pre-Islamic poet, renown for being one of the famous contributors to theMu'allaqat, rival toImru' al-Qais
• Jarīr – Classical Arab poet^{[citation needed]} and rival of Al-Farazdaq
• Al-Farazdaq –Umayyad Classical poet, rival of Jarir
• Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi – Shafi'i scholar and mathematician fromBaghdad
• Musa ibn Ka'b al-Tamimi – provincial Abbasid Governor in mid 8th century
• Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi – tenth century alchemist fromAl-Andalus
• Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Sa'id al-Tamimi – physician inPalestine during the 10th centuryCE
• Ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi al-Tunisi – 13th centuryTunisian astronomer and the author of an importantzij
• Yahya ibn Aktham – Chief judge of the Abbasid Caliphate
• Aktham ibn Sayfi – pre-Islamic figure known as "Judge of the Arabs"
• Khazim ibn Khuzayma al-Tamimi – Khurasani Arab military leader, Abbasid Revolutionary
• Ibrahim I ibn al-Aghlab – founder of theAghlabids' vassal, the emirs ofIfriqiya andSicily from 800 to 909
• Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani – founder of the State of Qatar
• Munzir ibn Sawa Al Tamimi – ruler of eastern parts of archaic Arabian peninsula who converted to Islam
• Sheikh Edebali – Sufi Master who served in the foundation of the Ottoman Empire and father-in-law of its founderOsman I
• Qatari ibn al-Fuja'a – Kharjite leader and poet who led an uprising against the Umayyads from Persia
• Rebi’i bin Aamer Al-Tamimi – Companion of the Prophet of Islam Muhammad.
• Munzir ibn Sawa Al-Tamimi – Governor of historical Bahrain, the eastern coast of the Arabian peninsula
• Ishaq ibn Rahwayh – jurist and imam of Khorasan – One of the Lisan Al-Arab
• Tabikha ibn Ilyas – tribal leader
• Ubayd Allah al-Anbari – Arab jurist, poet, lexicographer, genealogist and governor ofBasra under the Abbassids

Modern Era:

• Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab^[17][18] – founder of Nejdi Salafi movement and author ofKitāb at-Tawḥīd
• Muhammad Ibn al 'Uthaymīn (d. 2001 C.E.) – SaudiSalafi preacher
• Abdul-Rahman al-Sa'di – Saudi Islamic Scholar
• Abdulaziz Al Sheikh – current Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia
• Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani – Emir of Qatar
• Mohammad bin Ibrahim Al-Awadhi – Kuwaiti Islamic preacher
• Ali Abdullah Al-Daffa – Saudi mathematician, scientist, author, professor

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• The life of Mahomet byWilliam Muir

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