{
 "id": "group/sufa",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "sufa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "صوفة (بنو الغوث بن مرة)",
  "en": "Sufa (Banu al-Ghawth ibn Murra)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "بنو الغوث بن مرة من بطون إلياس بن مضر، كانوا يسمون صوفة؛ كان إليهم في ولاية خزاعة الدفع بالناس من عرفة إلى المزدلفة والإجازة بهم يوم النفر من منى: لا يرمي الناس يوم النفر حتى يرمي رجل من صوفة، ويأخذون بجانبي العقبة فلا يجوز أحد حتى يمروا؛ فلما انقرضوا ورثهم بنو سعد بن زيد مناة من تميم.",
  "en": "Banu al-Ghawth ibn Murra of the Ilyas ibn Mudar line, called Sufa; under Khuza'a's rule they held the right to lead the pilgrims from Arafa to Muzdalifa and to release them from Mina on the day of departure: none threw the stones until a man of Sufa threw, and they held both sides of the pass until they had passed; when they died out, Banu Sa'd ibn Zayd Manat of Tamim inherited the office."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/pre-islamic-arabia"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "sacred-space-and-pilgrimage"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "clan",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "الرحيق المختوم ص28–30 نقلاً عن ابن هشام 1/44 و114–125 وقلب جزيرة العرب ص230–231 ورحمة للعالمين 2/48 ومروج الذهب 1/205",
   "generated_by": "Claude Code",
   "model": "claude-fable-5-1",
   "run": "raheeq-prose-batch-2c"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Claude Code (claude-fable-5-1); al-Raheeq al-Makhtum pp. 29–30"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "صوفة اسم بني الغوث بن مرة من بطون [[person/ilyas-ibn-mudar|إلياس بن مضر]]؛ كان إليهم، في ولاية [[group/khuzaa|خزاعة]] على مكة، الدفع بالناس من عرفة إلى المزدلفة والإجازة بهم يوم النفر من [[place/mina|منى]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/119-122}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "الإجازة",
     "markdown": "معنى هذه الإجازة أن الناس كانوا لا يرمون يوم النفر حتى يرمي رجل من صوفة، ثم إذا فرغ الناس من الرمي وأرادوا النفر من منى أخذت صوفة بجانبي العقبة فلم يجز أحد حتى يمروا ثم يخلّون سبيل الناس {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/119-122}. فلما انقرضت صوفة ورثهم بنو سعد بن زيد مناة من [[group/banu-tamim|تميم]] {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "يوم قصي",
     "markdown": "لما مات حليل وفعلت صوفة ما كانت تفعل، أتاهم [[person/qusayy-ibn-kilab|قصي]] بمن معه من قريش وكنانة عند العقبة فقال: نحن أولى بهذا منكم، فقاتلوه فغلبهم قصي على ما كان بأيديهم {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.30} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/123-124}. انظر [[event/qusayy-takes-mecca|استيلاء قصي على مكة]] و[[concept/manasib-quraysh|مناصب قريش]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "صوفة عائلة كانت تعطي الحجاج إشارة البدء برمي الجمرات والانصراف من منى قبل أن يأخذ قصي ذلك منهم."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/sufa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Sufa is the name of the Banu al-Ghawth ibn Murra, branches of [[person/ilyas-ibn-mudar|Ilyas ibn Mudar]]. In the rule of [[group/khuzaa|Khuza'a]] over Mecca, they held the right of releasing the people from Arafat to Muzdalifa and of letting them depart on the day of departure from [[place/mina|Mina]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/119-122}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The privilege",
     "markdown": "The meaning of this privilege is that people did not throw the stones on the day of departure until a man of Sufa had thrown his. Then, when people had finished throwing and wished to leave Mina, Sufa took up the two sides of the pass, and no one passed until they had gone by, and then they let the people go. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/119-122} When Sufa died out, the privilege was inherited by Banu Sa'd ibn Zayd Manat of [[group/banu-tamim|Tamim]]. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.29}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The day of Qusayy",
     "markdown": "When Hulayl died and Sufa did what it used to do, [[person/qusayy-ibn-kilab|Qusayy]] came to them at the pass with those with him from Quraysh and Kinana, and said: \"We have a better right to this than you.\" They fought him, and Qusayy overcame them and took what was in their hands. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.30} {cite:ibn-hisham-sira 1/123-124} See [[event/qusayy-takes-mecca|the seizure of Mecca by Qusayy]] and [[concept/manasib-quraysh|the offices of Quraysh]]."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Sufa was a family that gave the pilgrims the signal to begin throwing the stones and to leave Mina, before Qusayy took that role from them."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/sufa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "group/mudar-ibn-nizar",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "من بطون إلياس بن مضر.",
   "sources": [
    "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
    "source/ibn-hisham-sira"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "group/adwan",
  "group/ghatafan",
  "group/qays-aylan",
  "group/mudar-ibn-nizar",
  "building/al-qullays",
  "building/dar-al-nadwa",
  "building/dhu-al-khalasa",
  "building/kaaba"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}