Tasm
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Descendants of Tasm ibn Lawdh who marched after 'Amaliq and settled Bahrayn — one of the vanished Arabic mother-tribes 1.
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Overview
Tasm is a people whom al-Mas'udi traces to Tasm ibn Lawadh ibn Iram ibn Sam ibn Nuh, and counts among the perished original Arabs. After Amaliq ibn Lawadh, Tasm went with his children and those who followed him, and settled in Bahrain. 2
Their places and their end
Al-Mas'udi says that God destroyed them as He destroyed Jadis. Among their places he mentions the land of al-Samawa, Dasim, al-Jawlan, Jazir in the land of Nawa in Hawran, and al-Buthniyya between Damascus and Tiberias. 3
According to al-Baladhuri they settled between Yemen and Yamama. There were wars between them and Jadis, which destroyed them, until the proverb arose, "O Tasm, what you met from Jadis!" Then their remnants joined Jadis, and Abd Kalal ibn Mathwab, the Tubba', destroyed them all at Yamama. 4
The two accounts differ about where they settled (Bahrain in al-Mas'udi, between Yemen and Yamama in al-Baladhuri). A second source is needed.
Sources
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 451
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.451
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.456
- Ansab al-Ashraf of al-Baladhuri, p.8
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islam.museum contributors. “Tasm”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/group/tasm/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.