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Bani Malik ( tribe)
Bani Malik tribe بني مالك or Banu Malik بنو مالك (The Sons of Malik)

This is one of the major Arab tribes of the Arabian Peninsula .They are descendants of Malik Al-Ashtar Al-Nakhie who fought with Ali ibn Abi Talib, the cousin of prophet Mohammad. Bani Malik comprise the following tribes:

1. Al- Ali

2. Al- Faraj

3. Al- Ismail

4. Al-Awabid

5. Al-Humaidat

6. Al- Ibrahim

7. Bani Rzaij

8. Bani Hasan (Bani Hesan)

A hyphenated Al(Al-) means "The" if it is prefixed to the tribe name but means "The son of..." if prefixed to a person name, while the plain Al (آل ) and Bani (بني ) or Albu (ألبو ) or Banu (  بنو) mean the plural "The sons of..". Their great ancestor is Qahtan قحطان ( the father of the south Arabian Arabs who are the aboriginal stock of the Arabian peninsula). Qahtan is called Joktan in the Old Testament. Qahtan is one of the two great fathers of all Arab tribes, the other one is Adnan عد نان ( offspring of Ishmael the son of prophet Ibraham and the father of the north Arabicized Arabs who are the naturalized stock of the peninsula who migrated from Cana'n area in the North, now called Palestine. Bani Malik are an offshoot of a bigger tribe called Khuza'a ( خزاعة ) named after Khuza’a (also named Haritha) Ibn Amr Ibn Muzaqiba of Al-Azd the major Qahtani tribe. Khuza'a tribe fought with prophet Mohammad against the pagans and infidels Banu Bakr who tried to conquer Makka. This incident has been mentioned and blessed in a verse in the Holy Quran ( Verse Al-Tawba-14). Sulaiman bin Kuthayer who is one of the Abbasid supporters descended from Bani Malik. He was later killed by Abu-Muslim AI-Khurasani a dissident Persian outlaw. Bani Malik lived in Bahrain,Qatif ,Ahwaz which is an Arabic part of Iran and in Iraq. In Iraq they live now in Basrah, Nassyriah and on the eastern bank of Euphrates River at AI-Diwanyiah district in the middle part of Iraq. The territory of their major offshoot, Al-Ali tribe, extends from AI-Diwanylah in the north to AI-Rumaitha to the south. The area was named after their name, Al-Ali. The rivers; AI-Rafi, AI-Yusufyia and AI-Lawah irrrigated the area. In 1900 when these rivers dried up they moved to an area around AI-Hindyiah branch of Euphrates River, which was dug by Asif AI-Dawla AI-Hindi at 1205 A.H (After Hijra) =1845 AD.