Murād

Overview

Murād is one of the largest divisions the genealogists enter under Madhḥij, reckoned Murād ibn Mālik ibn Udad, a brother line to ʿAns as reported. Its country is placed in Yemen east of Ṣanʿāʾ, in the wadis running toward Maʾrib and the Jawf, where one of the valleys carries the tribe's name in the geographers. This page describes a historical tribe as the classical sources record it, and makes no claim about any modern family.

The name

The genealogists report that Murād is a byname and that the man's given name was Yuḥābir, and they explain the byname from the root m-r-d, which in the lexicon carries insolence and rebellion — the account being that he was the first to rebel in Yemen, so the name stayed with him. This is transmitted explanation, of the kind the compilers offer for al-Nakhaʿ and al-Ṣadif as well, and it is repeated here as reported rather than as established.

Not the given name Murād

This is the practical caution. The personal name Murād carried today across the Muslim world is a different word: it is the passive participle of the root r-w-d, meaning that which is desired or intended, and it circulated widely through Persian and Turkish usage as a given name. Someone called Murād, or bearing a family name built on it, is not thereby connected to this tribe in any way, and the resemblance of the two words in writing is the whole of the connection. The genealogists' byname and the modern given name meet only on the page.

In the genealogical tradition

The compilers name a number of sections under Murād — among them Qarn, Zāhir, Nājiya and Ghuṭayf — and the lists differ from book to book, one making a name a son where another makes it a grandson. Where a branch is given here it is given as the sources report it, not as a settled fact. Of these, Qarn is the one a reader is most likely to have met, since the biographical literature gives the nisba al-Qaranī to a man of it.

The accounts of the delegations record Farwa ibn Musayk arriving from Murād to the Prophet, which is where the tribe's name enters the early narrative sources.

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.