Bariq
{{About|Arab tribal group|places in Saudi| Bareq}}
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| group = Banu Bariq
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| population =100,000[https://books.google.com/books?id=jTS8AAAAIAAJ&q=bariq+ Arabian Studies, Volume 6 page 82]. to 50,000.{{cite book|last=Bariqi|first=Aḥmad ibn Marīf |title=Qabā'il Bāriq al-mu'āṣirah min al-'aṣr al-Jāhilī ilá al-'aṣr al-ḥadīth|url=http://www.arabicbookshop.net/main/details.asp?id=225-400}}
| popplace = Bareq, kufa[https://books.google.com/books?id=MxTWmfKEloAC&pg=PA46 The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate ]،
| langs = Arabic
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Bariq (also transliterated as Barik or Bareq, {{langx|ar| بارق}}) is a tribe from Bareq in south-west Saudi Arabia.[https://books.google.com/books?id=q_189OeDwSMC&pg=PA66 Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia: P-Z],،[https://books.google.com/books?id=k8PXAAAAMAAJ&q=bano+Barik Encyclopaedic Encyclopaedia of the world Muslims],، It belongs to the ancient Al-Azd tribe which has many clans linked to it.[https://books.google.com/books?id=k8PXAAAAMAAJ&q=Azd+Barik Encyclopaedia of the world Muslims: tribes, castes and communities]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=q_189OeDwSMC&pg=PA66 Encyclopaedic Ethnography of Middle-East and Central Asia]، As far as ancestry goes, Aws, Khazraj, Ghassān and Banu Khuza'a, and others all belong to Al-Azd.[https://books.google.com/books?id=2yROvV2N0QMC&pg=PA91 Constructing Al-Azd: Tribal Identity and Society in the Early Islamic Centuries]، They were one of the tribes of Arabia during Muhammad's era.[https://books.google.com/books?id=124rlkBcs1UC&pg=PT37 A Critical Exposition of the Popular 'Jihád'/Introduction/31]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=dfnXAAAAMAAJ&q=Bariq+ Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir page 339]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=987XAAAAMAAJ&q=bariq The Life of Muḥammad page 473]،
This tribe consists of four divisions: Al-Humaydah, Al-Musa ibn 'Ali, Al-Isba' and Al-Jibali. Their homes are located 15 miles north of Mahayil. They stretch 20 miles north and south and 30 miles east and west, and are bounded by "Banu Shihr" to the east, "Khath'm" and "Balqarn" to the north,[https://books.google.com/books?id=DXcRAQAAMAAJ&q=barik+Khath'm The Encyclopaedia of Islam: p812]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=q_189OeDwSMC&dq=barik&pg=PA66 Encycl. Ethnography Of Middle-East And Central Asia (3 Vols. Set): p66]، "Al-Raysh" and "Al-Durayb" to the south and "Rabi'at al-Maqatirah" to the west. Most of them live in the villages scattered across this region.{{cite book|last=Scoville|first=S. A.|title=Gazetteer of Arabia : a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula|year= 1979 |location= Graz, Austria |publisher=Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt|oclc=10452422}}
History
They were a branch of the Al-Azd tribe, which was one of the two branches of Kahlan the other being Himyar.[https://books.google.com/books?id=XRreydVE8IAC&pg=PA88 A History of the Arabs in the Sudan]، In ancient times, they inhabited Ma'rib, the capital city of the Sabaean Kingdom in modern-day Yemen. Their lands were irrigated by the Ma'rib Dam, which is thought by some to have been one of the Ancient World Wonders because of its size. When the dam collapsed for the third time in the 3rd century AD, a large number of the Bareq tribe left Yemen and immigrated in many directions, then settled on a mountain called Bareq in Tihama. Saad the Father of the Bariq tribes was called Bariq because he settled there,[https://books.google.com/books?id=cDrYAAAAMAAJ&q=mountain+bariq Attainment of the objective according to evidence of the ordinances ]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=OvB6lbYcAqIC&pg=PA91 Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership ]، Bariq today is generally considered one of the larger tribes in Saudi Arabia in terms of membership. Like most other tribes in the southwestern region of the country, Bariq is divided into three large groups, based on geography and lifestyle: the majority live in Bareq in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Yemen . Their religion is entirely Muslim.
=Letter from Muhammad to Bariq tribe=
In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful From Muhammad, Prophet of Allah To the People of Bariq, None shall pluck the fruits produced by the people of Bariq, except with their permission. It shall not be permissible to graze cattle in their meadows in any season of winter nor summer. However, if any Muslim, not having a meadow, passes through their land with cattle for grazing them, it shall be the responsibility of the people of Bariq to entertain him for three days at the maximum. When fruits in their gardens ripen, a traveller shall be entitled to pick up and eat as many fallen fruits can satisfy his hunger, but he shall not be entitled to carry the fruit with him. Seal: Allah's Prophet Muhammad.[https://books.google.com/books?id=l24wAAAAYAAJ&q=will+be+r+summar+except+with+the+permission+of+the+bariq Letters of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.)],،[https://books.google.com/books?id=dfnXAAAAMAAJ&q=+Bariq+if+a+muslim Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir page 339]،[https://archive.org/details/muhammadatmedina029655mbp Muhammad at Medina] by William Montgomery Watt،[https://archive.today/20130221192537/http://www.alkhilafah.net/l60.html TO BARIQ TRIBE]،
Genealogy
File:Pre_Islamic_Arabian_Tribes_(Harold_Dixon).svg in 600 AD, showing the various Arab tribes and their areas of settlement. The Lakhmids (yellow) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Sasanian Empire, while the Ghassanids (red) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Roman Empire A map published by the British academic Harold Dixon during World War I, showing the presence of the Arab tribes in West Asia, 1914]]
Bariq tribes branch from{{cite book|last=Ulrich|first=Brain John|title=Constructing Al-Azd: Tribal Identity and Society in The Early Islamic Centuries.|year=2008|publisher=c2008|location=University of Wisconsin Madison,Wisconsin|isbn=978-0-549-63443-0 | pages=290 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2yROvV2N0QMC}} the Al-Azd Tribe, and they are affiliated to their top grandfather{{cite book|last=Al-Hamdani|first=Abu Muhammad Al-Hasan|title=Sifat Jazirat ul-Arab|orig-year=1875|year=2000|publisher=Dar Alafaq AlArabiya|location=Alexandrina|isbn=977-572771-5 |pages=504|url=http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/mainpage.jsf?PID=DAF-Job:135673&q=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004194434/http://dar.bibalex.org/webpages/mainpage.jsf?PID=DAF-Job:135673&q=|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 4, 2011}} Saad, known as Bareq Ibn Uday Ibn Haritha[https://archive.org/details/historyofarabsin0000macm A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: The native manuscripts of the Sudan]، Ibn Amr Muzayqiya[https://books.google.com/books?id=2yROvV2N0QMC&pg=PA92 Constructing Al-Azd: Tribal Identity and Society in the Early Islamic Centuries]{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}، Ibn Aamir Ibn Haritha Ibn Imru al-Qais Ibn Tha'labah Ibn Mazen Ibn Al-Azd[https://archive.org/details/ahistoryarabsin00macmgoog/page/n106 A History of the Arabs in the Sudan: And Some Account of the People Who Preceded Them and of the Tribes Inhabiting Darfur]، Ibn Al-Ghoth Ibn Nabit Ibn Malik Ibn Zaid Ibn Kahlan Ibn Saba'a Ibn Yashjub Ibn Yarab Ibn Qahtan Ibn Hud (Eber).{{cite book|last=al-Hamdānī|first=Abū Muhammad al-Hasan|title=Kitāb ṣifat Jazīrat al-ʻArab.|year=1953|location=Cincinnati, Ohio, United States|oclc=68178467}} Ibn Salah Ibn Arpachshad Ibn Shem Ibn Noah Ibn Lamech Ibn Methuselah Ibn Enoch Ibn Jared Ibn Mahalalel Ibn Kenan Ibn Enos Ibn Seth Ibn Adam.{{cite book|last=Müller|first=David Heinrich|title=Geographie der arabischen Halbinsel : nach den Hands chriften von Berlin, Constantinopel, London, Paris und Strassburg (AlHamadani)|year=1968|publisher=Leiden : E.J. Brill|location=German|oclc=663394959}}
Ibn Kathir has mentioned in his book (Al Bidayah wa-Nihayah){{cite web|last=Ibn Kathir|first=Hafiz|title=Albidayah Wa'nihayah|url=http://kitaabun.com/shopping3/product_info.php?products_id=3098|publisher=Dar al-Kotob Al-'ilmiyyah|access-date=23 July 2011}} "The Beginning and the End" to the Al-Azd describing them that they reached the summit of glory, and honor its peak, and the history has maintained and noted their glory and mentioned them. They are the owners of two paradises in the Kingdom of Saba'a Sheba, and the masters of the Arabs and the kings after their displacement from Yemen and dispersal throughout the Arabian Peninsula. After the Islamic prophet Muhammad's mission was to them in Islam and the status of a great gesture honest, as (the? among the?) first Arab tribes believing in Muhammad, and endorsement of his letter, and they help him with their money and themselves, they are the owners of the Islamic conquests in honorable positions in raising the banner of monotheism and the spread of Islam to the corners of the earth, and many of them were/are scholars and poets who influenced the development of Arab and Islamic culture.
Bariq branches
The Bariq people are divided into the two sub-groups of Al-Humaydah and Al-Ali.{{cite book|last=ʻAmrawī|first=Umar Gharāmah |title=al-Muʻjam al-jughrāfī lil-bilād al-ʻArabīyah al-Suʻūdīyah : bilād Bāriq|year= 1998|publisher=Dar Okaz|oclc=51193969 |pages=99}}
The Humaydah[https://books.google.com/books?id=VA5Uke7IpHkC&pg=PA161 Conquest of Arabia-Alt 10: The Conquest of Arabia: The Riddah Wars A.D. 632-633/A.H. 11 ]، division of Bariq consists of 6 subgroups:{{cite book|last=al-Bariqi|first=Mahmood Aal-Shobaily |title=Al-Shariq: fi tarikh wa jughrāfīat bilād Bāriq|year=2001|publisher=Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Wataniyah|isbn=9960-39969-9 |pages=279|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lS43cgAACAAJ}}[https://books.google.com/books?id=WCq8AAAAIAAJ&q=Baraq+Humaidah A Collection of First World War Military Handbooks of Arabia, 1913-1917: Gazetteer of Arabia, 1917 (3 v. in 4) ]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=ETBLAAAAYAAJ&q=HUMEIDAH Handbook of Arabia: General PAGE 59,416,450 ]،
- Al-Hajri.[https://books.google.com/books?id=X4bVAAAAMAAJ&q=Hajri+ A Handbook of Arabia: Volume I. General p416 ]،
- Al-Salim
- Maha'mula
- Aaram (Al-Aram).
- Gdraymah (Al-Gdraymah).[https://books.google.com/books?id=ETBLAAAAYAAJ&q=A%27jamah++ A Handbook of Arabia: General p416 ]،
- Fseel (Al-Fseel).
The Ali division of Bariq consists of 3 subgroups:[https://books.google.com/books?id=zFkxAAAAIAAJ&q=+bariq Subcontractor's monograph on Saudi Arabia page 60 ]،[https://books.google.com/books?id=-OMJAQAAIAAJ&q=Baraq+Humaidah+ Gazetteer of Arabia: a geographical and tribal history of the Arabian Peninsula ]،
- Musa (Al-Musa ibn Ali).[https://books.google.com/books?id=OSG8AAAAIAAJ&q=+Musa+%D8%A9%D8%AB%D9%89 The Arab Bureau handbooks of Hejaz, Asir, Yemen 1917 p51]،
- Isba'i (Al- Isb'ai ).[https://books.google.com/books?id=OSG8AAAAIAAJ&q=Isb The Arab Bureau handbooks of Hejaz, Asir, Yemen 1917 p51]،
- Jabali (Al-Jabali).[https://books.google.com/books?id=dXUrAAAAMAAJ&q=Jebali Asir before World War I: a handbook p52]،
Influential people of Bariq
See also
References
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