Humaydah

{{Short description|Arab tribe}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}

{{infobox ethnic group

| group = Banu Humaydah

| image =

| image_caption = Portrait of a young man from the Humaydah tribe with two boys in Bareq By Wilfred Thesiger 1946.

| population =30,000.{{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, Al-Majardah

| langs = Arabic

| rels = Islam

| related =

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Humaydah (also transliterated as Humaidah, {{langx|ar| حميضة}}), is an Arab tribe,{{cite book|last= Ibn Durayd|first=Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan|title=Kitāb Jamharat al-lughah|year=1988|location= Bayrūt, Lubnān |publisher= Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn |oclc=20489173}} a subgroup of the Bariq tribe of the Qahtanite people. They were a powerful house which governed the city of Bareq until the Ibn Saud invasion and lived peacefully beside al-Ali.{{cite book|last=al-Bariqi|first=Mahmood Aal-Shobaily |title=Al-Shariq: fi tarikh wa jughrāfīat bilād Bāriq|year=2001 |orig-year=Republished 2001|publisher=Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Wataniyah|isbn=9960-39969-9 |pages=279|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lS43cgAACAAJ}}

Kinahan Cornwallis Said (1916):" Humeidah. Live in the western part of the district along the Muhail-Qunfudah road from Dhahab to 'Aqabet es-Suhul and extend down the 'Aqabah to Ghar el- Hindi. Consisting of 7,000 men, of whom 4,000 are nomads٫Their Chief Sheikh is Mohammed Ibn Haiazah.»

Naval Intelligence Handbooks (1916): "The most important tribe is the Humeidah, numbering 7,000 men, of whom 4,000 are nomads. They occupy the western part of the district, and the Muha'il- Qunfudah road from Dhahab to Ghar el-Hindi is in their territory. They quarrel with the Al Isba'i and are divided amongst themselves, the villagers favouring the Turks, the nomads Idrisi. Taken as a whole the tribes support Idrisi, with the exception of the settled Humeidah, and pay him taxes. They are peaceful and pleasure-loving, and by no means fond of war. At the same time they are not above harrying small Turkish convoys.»

Wilfred Thesiger (1946): "This desolate country continued until we reached the wadi khat and the cultivated lands of the Humaidha tribe at barik who resemble the 'Amara and live in well-built, flat-roofed, stone houses. These sedentary tribes own a few camels, some cattle, and fair-sized herds of sheep and goats. They are however essentially cultivators who grow dhurra or "dukhn" (bull-rush millet), either on small plains irrigated by the floods or on the silt of the stream beds.»