بكيل

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.