Banū al-Qayn (Arabic: بنو القين) (also spelled Banūʾl Qayn, Balqayn or al-Qayn ibn Jasr) were an Arab tribe that was active between the early Roman era...

became an often fought over frontier between the Banu Kalb and their distant kinsmen from the Banu al-Qayn. The lowland gained its current name following...

The Banu Kalb (Arabic: بنو كلب, romanized: Banū Kalb) was an Arab tribe which mainly dwelt in the desert and steppe of northwestern Arabia and central...

Ghalib and Ma'wiya bint Ka`b ibn al-Qayn ibn Jasr ibn Shay' Allah ibn Asad ibn Wabara ibn Taghlib ibn Hulwan ibn Imran ibn al-Haf ibn Quda'a. Her (Ma'wiyah's)...

force of "100,000 Greeks joined by 100,000 men from Lakhm and Judham and Al-Qayn and Bahra' and Bali": 532  intercepted them at a village called 'Mu'tah'...

With this letter, Obaidullah wanted to force Husayn to fight. Zuhair ibn Qayn suggested to Husayn to attack the small army of Hur and capture the fortified...

led by the Banu Kalb under Ibn Bahdal and Ibn Ziyad. At their initiative, a shura of the loyal tribes was held at Jabiya, where Marwan ibn al-Hakam, a distant...

Zabban ibn al-Asbagh of the Banu Kalb tribe bore him Abd al-Aziz and daughter Umm Uthman, who was married to Caliph Uthman's son al-Walid; al-Walid was...

companions of Husayn ibn Ali who died in the Battle of Karbala. Zuhayr ibn al-Qayn al-Bajali, the commander of the right flank. He was a noble chieftain of...

Harun al-Rashid (r. 786–809). The Quda'a was a large Bedouin confederation in Syria grouping together the tribes of Kalb, Tanukh, Khawlan, Banu al-Qayn and...

Karbala Zuhayr ibn al-Qayn Muslims, Imam Ali followers Banu Asad (tribe) Burayr ibn Khudayr al-Hamdani A research about Persian Maqtal al-Husayn, پژوهشی در...

mother was Amima al-Fahmia, of the Banu al-Qayn. After the death of his father Jabr, his mother married one of his enemies, Abu Kabir al-Hudhali [ar]. Ta'abbata...

himself. However they could not recognize him and asked either Zuhayr ibn al-Qayn, Habib ibn Muzahir or Burayr to fight them. Yasir was standing nearby to...

leader of the Banu Abs in the tales of Antarah ibn Shaddad Zuhayr bin Abi Sulma (c. 520 – c. 609), a famous Arabian poet Zuhayr ibn Qayn Al-Bajali (d. 680)...

an incident where a member of the northern Banu al-Qayn tribe came to grind his wheat at a location in the al-Balqa region of Transjordan and stole marrows...

to do. Husayn's speech moved Al-Hurr ibn Yazid Al-Tamimi to defect to his side. After Husayn's speech, Zuhayr ibn Qayn attempted to dissuade Ibn Sa'd's...

dhāt). Attested in archaeological and/or epigraphic evidence Attested in al-Kalbi's Book of Idols Hoyland 2002, p. 139. Robin, Christian Julien, "South...

Zuhayr ibn Janab ibn Hubal al-Kalbi was a chieftain of the Banu Kalb tribe and a pre-Islamic Arabic warrior poet. Much of his biography relies on semi-legendary...

Balqāʾ with 100,000 Greeks joined by 100,000 men from Lakhm and Judhām and al-Qayn and Bahrāʾ and Balī commanded by a man of Balī of Irāsha called Mālik b...

commander and a chieftain of the Banu Kalb tribe. He was head of the shurṭa (security forces) under caliphs Marwan I and Abd al-Malik, and may have served in...

Marwan were the Tayy, al-Qayn and Tanukh. As the Qays under al-Dahhak marched toward Marwan's camp, a Ghassanid scion, Yazid ibn Abi al-Nims, led a revolt...