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==Origin== | ==Origin== | ||
Bloodline of Aws and Khazraj reaches the great tribe of Azd in [[Yemen]]. Most of genealogists and historians of the first centuries of Islam have mentioned the lineage of the two tribes through Banu Mazin b. Azd. | Bloodline of Aws and Khazraj reaches the great tribe of Azd in [[Yemen]]. Most of genealogists and historians of the first centuries of Islam have mentioned the lineage of the two tribes through Banu Mazin b. Azd.<ref>Ibn Kalbī, ''Jumhurat al-nasab'', p. 621; Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ, ''Kitab al-ṭabaqāt'', vol. 1, p. 175; Yaʿqūbī, ''Tārīkh al-Yaʿqūbī'', vol. 1, p. 202.</ref> | ||
The great ancestor of the two tribes, 'Amr b. 'Amir is known as Muzayqiyya, and Aws and Khazraj were the two sons of Haritha b. Tha'laba b. 'Amr b. 'Amir. Their bloodline reaches to the tribe Banu Quda'a through their mother, named Qayla bt. Kahil; so Aws and Khazraj also had named themselves as "Banu Qayla". | The great ancestor of the two tribes, 'Amr b. 'Amir is known as Muzayqiyya, and Aws and Khazraj were the two sons of Haritha b. Tha'laba b. 'Amr b. 'Amir. Their bloodline reaches to the tribe Banu Quda'a through their mother, named Qayla bt. Kahil;<ref>Ibn Ḥazm, ''Jamharat ansāb al-ʿarab'', p. 331; Ibn Qutayba al-Dīnawarī, ''al-Maʿārif'', p. 109.</ref> so Aws and Khazraj also had named themselves as "Banu Qayla".<ref>Jawād ʿAlī ''al-Mufaṣṣal fī tārīkh al-ʿarab qabl al-Islām'', vol. 4, p. 133.</ref> | ||
Aws is short for "Aws Manat" which shows their connection to one of the famous idols of the [[age of ignorance]]. Khazraj means strong or southern wind.<ref>Ibn | Aws is short for "Aws Manat" which shows their connection to one of the famous idols of the [[age of ignorance]].<ref>Jawād ʿAlī ''al-Mufaṣṣal fī tārīkh al-ʿarab qabl al-Islām'', vol. 4, p. 135; Ibn Kalbī, ''al-Aṣnām'', p. 13-14, 27.</ref> Khazraj means strong or southern wind.<ref>Ibn Manẓūr, ''Lisān al-ʿArab'', under the word "Khazraj"</ref> | ||
==Residence in Yathrib== | ==Residence in Yathrib== | ||