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Bakil

بكيل

The other shaft of Hamdan, brother of Hashid — Bakil ibn Jusham of the Hamdan line. Its homelands in al-Hamdani's mapping stretch from half of Sana'a's Rahba plain to Najran, al-Jawf, Shakir and Sirwah, counting Sufyan ibn Arhab (whence the Hudayniyya of Khaywan) among its houses; it held no market of its own but shared Warur, Ghuraq and Rayda in Hashid country 1.

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Era
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Region
Arabia
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Overview

One of the two wings of Hamdan and a brother of Hashid: Bakil ibn Jusham ibn Hibran ibn Nawf ibn Hamdan. 1

Lands and markets

Al-Hamdani locates their lands from the half of the plain of Sana'a to Najran, al-Jawf, Shakir and Sarwah. Among them was Sufyan ibn Arhab, from whom the Hadniyya in Khiwan descend. 1

Bakil had no market of its own. Its markets were Warr, Ghurq and Rida, in the land of Hashid. 1

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Related to
Hashid
Member of
Banu Hamdan

People and things also explored

Banu Hamdan· Hashid· The Day of al-Radm between Murad and Hamdan· The delegation and mission to Hamdan· The First Abyssinian Occupation of Yemen· Yaʿūq· al-Ajda' ibn Malik al-Hamdani· Dimam ibn Malik al-Salmani

Sources

  1. Sifat Jazirat al-Arab of al-Hamdani (Müller ed.), pp. 93-95
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Banu Hamdan

The great Kahlani tribe of Yemen whose rivalry with Himyar the Abyssinians exploited for their first occupation of Yemen in 340 CE.