Mahamid

The Mahameed and sometimes the Mihmadi or the Mahmudi are an Arab tribe that traces its origins to the Khawlani al-Qahtaniyah Harb[1] The majority of them resided originally in the Hijaz, between Mecca and Medina, and then spread in the Arabian Peninsula and the countries of the Maghreb, which are considered among the Arab tribes spread throughout the Arab countries.

Mahameed
المحاميد
Flag of Mahameed tribe
Religion
Sunni Islam (Hanbali)
Related ethnic groups
harb (tribe)

Tribe lineage

They are the Mahameed, the sons of Mahmoud bin Talha bin Maymun bin al-Musafir bin Amr bin Ziyad bin Sulaiman bin Salem bin Harb bin Saad bin Khawlan bin Amr bin Al-Haf bin Qadda bin Malik bin Amr bin Marra bin Zaid bin Malik bin Hamir bin Saba bin Ya'roub bin Qahtan[2] on the way they traveled some of them entered Bani Amr and they were Mahameed from Khayriyah from Bani Mahmoud from Bani Amr from Masruh from the Harb tribe .

Tribe biography
Map showing the areas of their rule before their migration to the north (in red)

their biography is repeated in the frequent travels, emigration and instability during their travels from their homes by origin, and their biography indicates that when the tribe enlarged and narrowed their area of residence in Najd and Hijaz,[3] they gathered to take opinions about what they need to do, and some of them said we conquer the tribes, and this suggestion was rejected because most of those in the neighborhood Among them were clans and sub-clans from the Harb tribe,[4] and from them all five gathered together, i.e. those who were united by the fifth grandfather and suggested leaving and settled their opinion on him, and their opinion was the direction north and settled for a period of time in Rabigh and Asfan and near Jeddah and a few of them remained there, and on the way of their travel he entered them or ( They swore) some of the Arab tribes because their fate was not known at the time and to protect their offspring, and they are:

And the last information of their cousins is that they went to the Dumat Al-Jandal area in the north, settled there for a period of time, and then moved towards the Levant.

hey moved until they reached the Karak region and settled in it, and they were in a large number that outnumbered the largest tribes in the region, and they allied themselves with some of the Karak clans and the most prominent of them were Al-Omaro Bani Uqba, and they established an emirate called (Emirate of Mahamid) for the majority of them from the Al-Amru clan at that time and their rule remained for a long time, and some of the Orientalists narrated And historians have wronged those under their rule as they were cruel to them, which prompted this different clans to unite against them.

Tribe spread

The Arabian Peninsula:

Saudi Arabia[5]

The tribe is divided into several branches, and they are:

  • almatiei
  • almadhakir
  • almuhabida
  • alrathea

Kuwait

The Levant and Iraq:

Syria[6]

Branched out from them:

  • The Hourani

Jordan[7]

Branched out from them:

  • Al Abdul Dayem
  • Al-Shaleikh
  • Al-Bahri
  • Ayal Abdo
  • The Abu Karaki family (the Mahamid who came from Daraa, immigrated from them to Umm al-Fahm, after which to the Karak governorate)
    Mahamid sergeant archived at the Imperial War Museum[8]
  • The Mahameed alliance with Al-Huwaitat.
  • The Mahameed alliance with Bani Abbad.
  • The Mahameed alliance with Bani Hamida
  • The Mahameed alliance with Zoubi

Palstine

Branched out from them:

  • kiawan
  • alkhudur
  • alsawalima
  • alhamamada
  • almusaeada
  • alhasasana
  • aljeayisa
  • dar alearabi
  • al'asead
  • al'ahmad

Iraq

Arab Africa[9]

They migrated with their allies Banu Selim from the Hijaz to Africa

Branched out from them:

  • alsabea
  • 'awlad sula
  • 'awlad almarmurii
  • 'awlad shabl

References
  1. Al'iiklil. Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani.
  2. Book chapters from the history of the Harb tribe in the Hijaz and Nejd (Page 105). Fayez Musa Al-Badrani. 1996.
  3. Burton's journey to Egypt and the Hijaz. Richard Francis Burton.
  4. Genealogical population of civilized families in Najd. Hamad Al-Jassir.
  5. The Hijaz Journey. Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi.
  6. Hawran alddamia. Hinna abu Rashed.
  7. Two years in Amman. Al-Zirikli.
  8. "Imperial War Museums". Imperial War Museums. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  9. الحطاب, سلطان (2006-10-29). "من عرب المحاميد الى عربنا !!". Alrai (in Arabic). Retrieved 2020-12-17.
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