Banu Dabbah (Arabic: بنو ضبة) is an Arab tribe of Adnanite descent. They merged with the Banu Tamim tribe and their descendants are considered to be part of both tribes. The Banu Dabbah currently reside in Oman and the Hijaz.
Tribal lineage They are descended from Wa'il Dabbah ibn 'Abd Manat, whose full lineage (according to Ibn Hazm) is Wa'il Dabbah, son of 'Abd Manat, son of 'Udd, son of Tabikha, son of Ilyas, son of Mudar, son of Nizar, son of Ma'add, son of Adnan. This lineage hence makes the Banu Dabbah a tribe descended from the Mudar tribal group as well as an Adnanite tribe.
The Banu Dabbah merged with Banu Tamim after the progenitor of the latter, Tamim ibn Murr, married a woman from the former.Ibn Abd Rabbih (1937). Kitāb al-ʿIqd al-Farīd [The Unique Necklace]. Morocco: Maktaba At-Ta'lif At-Taryama Wa'l Nasar.
History After the Conquest of Mecca in 630 CE, all of the Arabian tribes in the Hijaz and Mecca became Muslims; the Banu Dabbah potentially were amongst them.Mubarakpuri, Saifur Rahman (2008). The Sealed Nectar: Biography of the Noble Prophet. Dar-us-Salam Publications. After the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the Banu Dabbah fought alongside the forces of Aisha, Zubayr and Talha in the Battle of the Camel in 656 CE.
In modern times, the Banu Dabbah migrated to the country of Oman while some of them still lived in their villages at Najd.al-Marjan fi Qaba'il Hadha al-Zaman (المرجان في قبائل هذا الزمان)
Notable people Al-Mufaddal ad-Dabbi, 8th-century Arabic philologist and grammarian Nur al-Din al-Salimi, scholar of Ibadi Islam
See also Tribes of Arabia
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