Banū Sulaym

Overview

Banū Sulaym held the volcanic ḥarrah country of the northern Ḥijāz, east of Medina. The medieval sources record a large westward movement of Sulaym alongside Banū Hilāl into North Africa in the fifth century AH — one of the best-documented Arab migrations, and a reason Sulaymī attributions appear far outside Arabia.

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.