Wāʾil

Overview

Wāʾil appears in the genealogies as the ancestor from whom both Bakr and Taghlib are reckoned — *Bakr ibn Wāʾil* and *Taghlib ibn Wāʾil*. It is a name at the level of a jadd jāmiʿ rather than a tribe with its own country, and it is met most often inside those two compound names rather than alone.

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).