Humaydah

Arab tribe

Ethnic group

Banu HumaydahTotal 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

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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

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* Al-Hajri[6]
* Al-Salim
* Maha'mula
* Aaram (Al-Aram)
* Gdraymah (Al-Gdraymah)
* Fseel (Al-Fseel)

## Influential people of Bariq

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* Humaydah al-Bariqi— chief
* Al-Nu'man ibn Humaydah – chief
* Hamed al-Bariqi

## See also

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* Azd
* Bareq City
* Bariq
* Qahtanite

## References

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1. ^ Bariqi, Aḥmad ibn Marīf. Qabā'il Bāriq al-mu'āṣirah min al-'aṣr al-Jāhilī ilá al-'aṣr al-ḥadīth.
2. ^ Ibn Durayd, Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan (1988). Kitāb Jamharat al-lughah. Bayrūt, Lubnān: Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn. OCLC 20489173.
3. ^ 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.
4. ^ Subcontractor's monograph on Saudi Arabia page 60 ،
5. ^ Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula ،
6. ^ A Handbook of Arabia: Volume I. General p416 ،

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Arab tribes in Saudi Arabia

These prefixes ignored in the alphabetical ordering: Al, Bani, Banu.

* Abd al-Qays
* Ansar
* Al Bin Ali
* Ajman
* Al Ali
* Al-Buainain
* Al Blooshi
* Al Kathiri
* Al Zarqan
* Al Muqbali
* Anizah
* Al Jalahma
* Ruwallah
* Hasana
* Banu Abs
* Banu al-Hakam
* Banu Thaqif
* Banu Tamim
* Bani Buhair
* Banu Hudhayl
* Banu Sulaym
* Bani Hareth
* Bani Shehr
* Bani Sakher
* Banu Lam
* Al-Dhafeer
* Banu Khuza'ah
* Banu Yam
* Al Murrah
* Bani Khalid
* Al Thawawida
* Bariq
* Humaydah
* Bajila
* Bani Malik
* Bali
* Bahila
* Dawasir
* Ghamd
* Harb
* Mahamid
* Howeitat
* Juhaynah
* Khafaja
* Khath'am
* Shahran
* Mutayr
* Otaibah
* Quraysh
* Banu Hashim
* Banu Qatadah
* Bani Shaiba
* Qahtan
* Bani Hajer
* Subay'
* Suhool
* Shammar
* Banu Taghlib
* Zahran

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