Banu Taym

Banū Taym
(Arabic: بَنُو تَيْم)
Banū Taym ; (Arabic: بَنُو تَيْم)
Qurayshite Arab tribe
Ethnicity	Arab
Nisba	Al-Taymī ; (ٱلتَّيْمي)
Location	Arabia, North Africa, and Levant
Descended from	Taym ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn an-Nadr ibn Kinanah
Parent tribe	Banu Kinanah
Branches	Banu Abu Bakr Banu Abd Allah ibn Muhammad Abd al-Rahman ibn Abu Bakr Awlad Sidi Shaykh; ; Banu Abd al-Rahman ibn Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Suhrawardy family; Al Ateeq; ; ; Banu Talha ibn Ubayd Allah Banu Muhammad ibn Talha; ;
Language	Arabic
Religion	Islam
Surnames	Al Siddiqi; Al Bakri; Al Bousheikhi; Al Ateeq; Al Talhi;

Banū Taym (Arabic: بَنُو تَيْم; alternatively transliterated as Banu Taim) are an Arab clan of the Quraysh tribe of Mecca. It is present in many countries and areas as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Jordan and Lebanon, and has a strong presence in Algeria, and Morocco, Palestine, Tunisia, and Libya. It is also present in many other parts of the Middle East and North Africa region such as Egypt.

The first Caliph of Islam, Abu Bakr Al Siddiq, hailed from the Banu Taym, as did another prominent companion of Muhammad, Talha ibn Ubaydallah, as well as the third wife of Muhammad, Aisha bint Abi Bakr.

Ancestry

The tribe descended from Taym ibn Murrah ibn Ka'b ibn Lu'ay ibn Ghalib ibn Fihr ibn Malik ibn an-Nadr ibn Kinanah. Taym was a member of the Quraysh al-Bitah (i.e. Qurayshites living near the Kaaba in Mecca), and an uncle of the Qurayshite chief Qusayy ibn Kilab, who was a paternal ancestor of Muhammad.^[1]

Abu Bakr, a senior disciple (Sahabi) and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, ruled over the Rashidun Caliphate from 632 to 634 CE, when he became the first Muslim Caliph following Muhammad's death.^[2]
- Salma Umm al-Khair (died 632-634) female disciple of Muhammad and mother of Abu Bakr.
- Uthman Abu Quhafa ibn Amir was a notable Muslim and the father of the Caliph Abu Bakr.
- Abd al-Rahman ibn Abi Bakr, the eldest son of Abu Bakr
- Abd Allah ibn Abi Bakr, son of Qutaylah bint Abd-al-Uzza and Abu Bakr, the first Rashidun Caliph.
- Aisha bint Abi Bakr, daughter of Abu Bakr and one of Muhammad's wives.^[3]
- Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr Military General and Governor of Egypt under Caliph Ali (656–661).
- Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr was an important jurist in early Islam.
Talha ibn Ubayd Allah, a disciple and companion of Muhammad.^[4]^[5] A paternal cousin of Abu Bakr.
Umar ibn Ubayd Allah ibn Ma'mar, commander and governor under the Umayyads and Zubayrids.
Umm Farwah bint al-Qasim was the wife of Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al-Husayn ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib and the mother Ja'far ibn Muhammad al-Hashimi.
Fatima bint Muhammad, was the wife of Caliph Al-Mansur (r. 754–775) and mother of Sulayman.
Abu Najib Al-Din Suhrawardi, a renowned philosopher, scholar and theologian who founded the Suhrawardiyya sufi order.
Shihab al-Din 'Umar al-Suhrawardi, nephew of Abu Najib Al-Din Suhrawardi and the one who expanded the Suhrawardiyya order.

Abdul Qader ibn Muhammad Al Samahi (Sidi Sheikh), a renowned poet, scholar and theologian who founded the Sheikhiyya sufi order and the eponymous ancestor of the Awlad Sidi Shaykh tribe.
Sheikh Bouamama, one of the most popular resistance fighters in Algeria, who led a popular resistance against French occupation from 1881 to 1908 as a part of the longer resistance by the Awlad Sidi Sheikh that lasted from 1864 until his very own resistance ended.
Ubaidullah Al Ubaidi Suhrawardy, Bengali islamic scholar and regarded as the founder of modern Islamic education in Bengal.
Hassan Suhrawardy, a Bengali surgeon, military officer in the British Indian Army and politician. He was the former chairman of the executive committee of the East London Mosque.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a Bengali barrister, politician and statesman who served as the fifth prime minister of Pakistan from 1956 to 1957 and before that as the prime minister of Bengal from 1946 to 1947.
Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, the Pakistani ambassador to Morocco from 1964 to 1967, and a delegate to the United Nations.
- Princess Sarvath El Hassan, daughter of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah and a Jordanian royal as the wife of Prince Hassan bin Talal, former Crown Prince of Jordan from 1965 to 1999.

Hind bint Surayr ibn Tha'labah

Taym ibn Murrah

Sa'd ibn Taym

Ka'b ibn Sa'd

'Amr ibn Ka'b

'Amir ibn 'Amr

Sakhar ibn 'Amr

Hind bint Nuqayd

Umm Farwa

Qurayba

Abu Bakr

Muataq

Mu'aytaq^[6]

Quhafa

Umm Amir

^ Maqsood, Ruqaiyyah Waris. "The Prophet's Line Family No 3 – Qusayy, Hubbah, and Banu Nadr to Quraysh". Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Dawah. Archived from the original on 30 May 2008. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
^ "Abū Bakr".
^ Spellberg 1994, p. 3
^ Jafri, Hua M. (1979). The Origins and Early Development of Shi`a Islam. International Book Centre. pp. 58–79.
^ Razwy, Ali Asghar. A Restatement of the History of Islam and Muslims.
^ Tarikh ar-Rusul wa al-Muluk 3/ 425

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