Banū Mujāshiʿ

Overview

Mujāshiʿ ibn Dārim is placed by the genealogists under Dārim, of Ḥanẓala of Banū Tamīm. Its best remembered figure is the poet al-Farazdaq, Hammām ibn Ghālib, whom the sources reckon to Mujāshiʿ; his grandfather Ṣaʿṣaʿa ibn Nājiya is remembered in the akhbār as the man who bought infant girls to save them from being buried alive. The naqāʾiḍ — the long exchange of answering satires between al-Farazdaq and Jarīr — is therefore a contest between two sections of one tribe, since Jarīr is reckoned to Kulayb of Yarbūʿ; much of it was performed at Baṣra in Iraq, where a large part of Tamīm settled after the conquests, and where much of the tribe's material was collected. All of this is as the sources report it. The page describes a historical section of a historical tribe and makes no claim about any modern family.

The name

Mujāshiʿ is formed on the root j-sh-ʿ; al-jashaʿ in Lisān al-ʿArab is the most intense degree of eagerness or greed. Early Arabic naming draws on words of harsh sense as readily as on flattering ones, and no judgement on the bearers follows from the word.

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 (ṣarīḥ), alliance (ḥilf) or clientage (walāʾ), and the sources usually say which only when they know.