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Rabi`ah purported patriarch of one of the two main branches of the so-called "North Arabian" (
Adnanite) tribes, the other branch being known as
Mudhar.
According to the classical
Arab genealogists, the following were the most important branches of Rabi`ah:
Like the rest of the Adnanite Arabs, legend has it that Rabi`ah's original homelands were in the
Hejaz region of western
Arabia, from which Rabi`ah migrated northwards and eastwards. Abdul Qays were inhabitants of the region of
al-Bahrayn in eastern Arabia, including the modern-day islands of
Bahrain, and were mostly sedentary.
Bakr's lands stretched from
al-Yamama (the region around modern-day
Riyadh) to northwestern
Mesopotamia. The main body of the tribe was
bedouin, but a powerful and autonomous sedentary sub-tribe of Bakr also resided in al-Yamama, the
Bani Hanifa.
Taghlib resided on the eastern banks of the
Euphrates, and al-Nammir are said to have been their clients. Anz inhabited southern Arabia, and are said to have been decimated by the
plague in the 13th century, though a tribe named "Rabi`ah" in modern-day
'Asir is said to be its descendant.
Anizzah was divided into a sedentary section in southern
Yamama and a bedouin section further north, which later absorbed Bakr and Taghlib after Islam. Of all the tribes of
Rabi`ah, only
`Anizzah has continued into the modern era as a large autonomous tribe.
Abdul Qays, Taghlib, al-Nammir, and some sections of Bakr were mostly
Christian before Islam, with Taghlib remaining a Christian tribe for some time afterwards as well. Annizah and Bakr are said to have worshiped an idol by the name of al-Sa'eer.
Rabi`ah in Egypt
During the
Abbasid era, many members of Bani Hanifa and related tribesmen from Bakr ibn Wa'il migrated from al-Yamama to southern
Egypt, where they dominated the gold-mines of
Wadi Allaqi near
Aswan. While in Egypt, the tribesmen went by the collective name of "Rabi'ah" and inter-married with indegenous tribes in the area such as the
Beja peoples. Among their descendants are the tribe of
Banu Kanz (also known as the Kunooz), who take their name from Kanz al-Dawlah of
Bani Hanifa, the leader of Rabi'ah in Egypt during the
Fatimid era.
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