Banu Taym

The tribe descended from Taym ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn an-Nadr ibn Kinanah. Taym was a member of the Quraysh al-Bitah (i.e. Qurayshites living near the KaabainMecca), and an uncle of the Qurayshite chief Qusayy ibn Kilab, who was a paternal ancestorofMuhammad.^[1]

• Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Military General and Governor of Egypt under Caliph Ali (656–661).
• Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr was an important jurist in early Islam.
• Asma bint Abdul-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr daughter of Abdul-Rahman and wife Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr.
• Umar ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Ma'mar, commander and governor under the Umayyads and Zubayrids.
• Umm Farwah bint al-Qasim was the wife of Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib and the mother Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Hashimi.
• Fatima bint Muhammad, was the wife of Caliph Al-Mansur (r. 754–775) and mother of Sulayman .
• Abu Najib Al-Din Suhrawardi, a renowned philosopher, scholar and theologian who founded the Suhrawardiyya sufi order.

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