Kahlan
كهلان
One of the great Qahtani stocks; its branches left Yemen around the time of the Arim flood, among them al-Azd, Lakhm, Judham, Tayy, Kinda, Hamdan, and the ancestors of the Aws, Khazraj, Khuzaʾa and the Ghassanid house of Jafna.
At a glance
- Era
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Region
- Arabia
- Review
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Overview
Kahlan: the second of Qahtan's two great clans beside Himyar; its branches emigrated from Yemen and spread through the peninsula — the Azd, Lakhm, Judham, Tayy' and Kinda.
Life
A rivalry between Kahlan's clans and Himyar's led to Kahlan's expulsion 1. Most of them emigrated before the flood of al-Arim, when their trade failed under Roman pressure and Roman control of the sea trade-route 2.
Al-Mubarakpuri divides the emigrants into four: the Azd — from them the Aws, the Khazraj, Khuza'a, the Azd of Oman, the Azd Shanu'a, and Jafna father of the Ghassanids; Lakhm and Judham — of Lakhm, Nasr ibn Rabi'a father of the Manadhira at al-Hira; Banu Tayy' who settled the two mountains Aja and Salma; and Kinda who settled Bahrayn, then Hadramawt, then Najd 2.
For young visitors
Kahlan is a great tribe of Yemen; its sons emigrated and from them came many tribes at Medina, Mecca and Syria.
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Sources
- Muhadarat Tarikh al-Umam al-Islamiyya — Muhammad al-Khudari
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
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islam.museum contributors. “Kahlan”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/kahlan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.