Banu Hashim clan

Examples of Banu Hashim clan in the following topics:

• Flight from Mecca to Medina

  • Muhammad himself was protected from physical harm as long as he belonged to the Banu Hashim clan, but his followers were not so lucky.
  • With the death of Abu Talib, Abu Lahab assumed leadership of the Banu Hashim clan.
  • Soon after, Abu Lahab withdrew the clan's protection from Muhammad, endangering him and his followers.
  • A delegation from Medina, consisting of the representatives of the twelve important clans of Medina, invited Muhammad as a neutral outsider to serve as the chief arbitrator for the entire community.
  • The first group of pagan converts to Islam in Medina were the clans who had not produced great leaders for themselves but had suffered from warlike leaders from other clans.

• Early Life of Muhammad

  • Muhammad was born around the year 570 CE to the Banu Hashim clan of the Quraysh tribe, one of Mecca's prominent families.
  • He then came under the care of his uncle Abu Talib, the new leader of Banu Hashim.
  • The leaders of Mecca could not agree on which clan should have the honor of setting the Black Stone back in its place.
  • The clan leaders held the corners of the cloth and together carried the Black Stone to the right spot; then Muhammad set the stone in place, satisfying all who were present.

• Expansion Under the Umayyad Caliphates

  • Some Muslims felt that only members of Muhammad's Banu Hashim clan or those of his own lineage, such as the descendants of Ali, should rule.
  • Eventually, supporters of the Banu Hashim and the supporters of the lineage of Ali united to bring down the Umayyads in 750.

• The Nomadic Tribes of Arabia

  • The polytheistic Bedouin clans placed heavy emphasis on kin-related groups, with each clan clustered under tribes.
  • The immediate family shared one tent and can also be called a clan.
  • Although clans were made up of family members, a tribe might take in a non-related member and give them familial status.
  • Tribes provided a means of protection for its members; death to one clan member meant brutal retaliation.
  • Before the rise of Islam, there were three main Jewish tribes in the city of Medina: the Banu Nadir, the Banu Qainuqa, and the Banu Qurayza.

• Ancient Africa

  • These included small family groups of hunter-gatherers, such as the San people of southern Africa; larger, more structured groups, such as the family clan groupings of the Bantu-speaking people of central and southern Africa; heavily structured clan groups in the Horn of Africa; the large Sahelian kingdoms; autonomous city-states and kingdoms such as those of the Akan; Edo people, Yoruba and Igbo people (also misspelled as Ibo) in West Africa; and the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa.
  • The Banu Hilal and Banu Ma'qil were a collection of Arab Bedouin tribes from the Arabian Peninsula who migrated westwards via Egypt between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries.

• Early Islamic Society

  • The document was drawn up with the explicit concern of bringing an end to the bitter, inter-tribal fighting between the clans of the Aws (Banu Aus) and Banu Khazraj within Medina.