Asad ibn Khuzayma

Overview

Asad ibn Khuzayma is placed by the genealogists under Khuzayma alongside Kināna, and so within Muḍar. Its diyār are recorded in Najd, in the country about the two mountains of Ṭayyiʾ and eastward of them, with sections later recorded in the direction of al-ʿIrāq. It stands out in the poetic record as much as the genealogical one: ʿUbayd ibn al-Abraṣ and Bishr ibn Abī Khāzim are reckoned to it. The most useful thing this page can say, though, concerns the name. The genealogists keep this Asad apart from Asad ibn ʿAbd al-ʿUzzā, a clan named within Quraysh, and from an Asad named in Rabīʿa, while al-Azd of the south is a different name altogether that early undotted script can make look similar. A bare nisba of al-Asadī may therefore belong to any of them. This page describes a historical tribe and makes no claim about any modern family.

On lineage

Branch lists and affiliations here are given as reported by the classical genealogists, who themselves disagree. Nothing on this page establishes any living family's descent: a shared name may reflect descent, alliance (ḥilf) or clientage (walāʾ), and the sources usually say which only when they know.