Banū Jusham

Overview

Jusham is recorded as a son of Muʿāwiya ibn Bakr ibn Hawāzin, which places this line beside ʿĀmir ibn Ṣaʿṣaʿa rather than beneath it: Ṣaʿṣaʿa, ʿĀmir's father, is reckoned to the same Muʿāwiya. Jusham is among the Hawāzin sections the sources name in the accounts of the day of Ḥunayn, and the poet Durayd ibn al-Ṣimma, who belongs to those accounts, is reckoned to it. This page describes a historical tribe and makes no claim about any modern family.

More than one Jusham

The name is not confined to Hawāzin. The genealogists also record a Jusham in Taghlib, in the ʿAdnānī line through Rabīʿa, and a Jusham among the Khazraj of Yathrib, in the Qaḥṭānī line altogether — three groups the sources keep entirely separate and do not attempt to join. That spread across both of the great branches is a useful reminder of what a tribal name is: a personal name that a descent group came to be called by, not a mark of relationship between everyone who bears it. Where a source gives the name without its chain, the safe reading is that it is unresolved.

The name

Ibn Manẓūr treats j-sh-m in the sense of taking on a burden — jashima al-amr, to undertake something at cost to oneself, whence tajashshum for shouldering a hardship. A name from this root is of a common Arabic type, naming a child for a quality hoped for rather than observed.

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.