بنو سليم

بنو سليم

Banu Sulaym ibn Mansur ibn Ikrima ibn Khasafa ibn Qays Aylan, among the great Arab divisions; Hijazi folk who gathered in the migration to Egypt then crossed into Ifriqiya after Banu Hilal — they settled Barqa then pressed west, driving the Hilalis into the Middle Maghreb, and settled the marches of Gabes, Sfax and from Tripoli toward Fez's bounds; of them the Banu Makki chiefs of Gabes, the Banu Thabit of Tripoli and the Banu Muzni amirs of Biskra.