The Qudaa tribe and its migration to Egypt in the Umayyad era

Abstract

       The Qada’a tribe is one of the Arab tribes whose origin and lineage differ among historians. A group of them traces their lineage to the Himyarite Qahtaniya tribes in Yemen, and the other group attributes them to Ma’ad bin Adnan, meaning the Adnanite tribes in the Hijaz. After battles and wars, they left Yemen towards the country of Tihama and the Hijaz and from Hijaz to Bahrain. After settling in Bahrain for many years, their eyes turned to the Levant and Iraq, where good things such as water and grass abound, because they are Bedouin tribes searching for water and pasture. They took control of Iraq and the Levant and ruled there, and after that their eyes turned to Egypt within the Islamic conquests, especially in the Umayyad era, where they settled in Egypt. The reason for the disagreement between historians and genealogists regarding the origin of the Quda’ah tribe and their lineage is due to political reasons at the beginning of the Umayyad era, specifically during the reign of Muawiyah bin Abi Sufyan and his son Yazid bin Muawiyah, as the Quda’ah tribe was one of the largest and most powerful Arab tribes at that time. Muawiyah and his son Yazid wanted to annex the Quda’ah tribe. On their side because they were going through major political conflicts. To this end, they spent a lot of money to persuade senior figures from the Quda’ah tribe to stand by their side and enter into the Adnani lineage, especially if we know that Muawiyah married (Maysoon bint Bahadal al-Kalbiyah) from the Kalb tribe, whose origins go back to the Quda’ah tribe. His son-in-law Yazid is also from this tribe. He was able, in one way or another, to convince some of their personalities to change their lineage to stand by his side in his political and military conflicts. The research was divided into three sections. In the first section, we discussed: the lineage of the Quda’ah and the disagreement of historians about the origins of the Quda’ah tribe, whether they were Himyarites or were they Adnanis. We have cited many narrations about this topic. In the second section, we discussed the stages of the migration of the Quda’a tribe. The section was divided into the stages of the tribe’s migration from Yemen until their arrival in Egypt and their settlement there. In the third section: We discussed the most important tribes of the Qada’a tribe and mentioned the most important figures in this tribe. After that, we wrote the most important results of the research. Then we discussed the footnotes and the list of sources and references.