Banu Dhubyan

Dhubyan or Banu Dhubyan (Arabic: بنو ذبيان‎) are an Arabian tribe of Ghatafan branch, one of the Adnani branches. Banu Dhubyan inhabited the Hijaz region and were mostly Christian.

The Banu Dhubyān
(Arabic: بنو ذبيان‎)
Ghatafani, Qaysi
Descended fromDhubyān ibn Baghīd ibn Rayth ibn Ghaṭafān ibn Saʾd ibn Qays ʿAylān ibn Mudar ibn Nizar ibn Ma'ad ibn Adnan.
Parent tribeGhatafan
BranchesBanu Fazara
Banu Murra
Banu Tha’laba[1]
ReligionChristianism (pre 630s)
Islam (post 630s)

Influential people of Dhubyan

References

  1. Ibn Jarir, Tabari (1997). The History of al-Tabari Vol. 8: The Victory of Islam: Muhammad at Medina. State University of New York Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780791431504.
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