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Banu Taym

Banū Taym (Arabic: بَنُو تَيْم)
Qurayshi / Adnanite Arabs
Banner of Banu Taym
Nisba	At-Taymī (ٱلتَّيْمي)
Location	Western Arabian Peninsula, especially in Mecca (present-day Saudi Arabia)
Descended from	Taym ibn Murrah
Branches	Banū Suhrawardy
Religion	Islam

Banū Taym (Arabic: بَنُو تَيْم; alternatively transliterated as Banu TaimorBanu Tahim) was a clan of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca. The first caliph, Abu Bakr, hailed from the Banu Taym, as did another prominent companion of Muhammad, Talha ibn Ubaydallah.

Ancestry[edit]

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]

Notable members[edit]

• 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.

Family tree[edit]

See also[edit]

• Quraysh
• Hijaz Mountains

References[edit]

Bibliography[edit]

• Donner, Fred M. (1981). The Early Islamic Conquests. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9781400847877.
• Fitzpatrick, Coeli; Walker, Adam Hani (2014). Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God. ISBN 9781610691789.
• Macdonald, Ronald St. John (2005). Towards World Constitutionalism: Issues in the Legal Ordering of the World Community. Brill. ISBN 9789047415916.
• Spellberg, Denise (1994). Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: the Legacy of A'isha bint Abi Bakr. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0231079990.
• Watt, W. Montgomery (1986). "Kuraysh". Encyclopedia of Islam. Vol. V: Khe–Mahi (New ed.). Leiden and New York: Brill. pp. 434–435. ISBN 90-04-07819-3.

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