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Kinana

كنانة

An Arab tribe; Ibn Ishaq ascribes Fatima bint Safwan ibn Umayya ibn Muharrith to it as 'al-Kinaniyya'.

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Era
The Prophetic Era
Region
Arabia
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Summary

An Arab tribe; Ibn Ishaq traces "Fatima bint Safwan ibn Umayya ibn Muharrith" to it, calling her "al-Kinaniyya". 1 2

Of this tribe in the Abyssinian emigrants chapter

Connections

Has member
Fatima bint Safwan
Has part
Banu Bakr ibn Abd Manat

People and things also explored

The Bakr–Khuza'a clash at al-WatirReturn of the Abyssinian emigrants with Ja'far ibn Abi TalibBanu al-DilKhuza'aQurayshAmr ibn Sa'id ibn al-AsHimas ibn Qays al-DiliNawfal ibn Mu'awiya al-Dili

Sources

  1. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/4
  2. al-Sira al-Nabawiyya — Ibn Hisham, al-Saqqa edition (1355/1936), 4/11
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The Bakr–Khuza'a clash at al-Watir

A night raid by Banu al-Dil of Banu Bakr — secretly armed and joined by men of Quraysh — on Khuza'a at their watering place al-Watir in lower Mecca. The breach of the Hudaybiyya truce it caused is the spark the tradition gives for the conquest of Mecca.