b. Saʿd b. Ḳays (b.) ʿAylān , an Arab tribe. They were, according to the genealogists, the brothers of Bāhila [ q.v.]. Their grazing-grounds lay between Bīs̲h̲a [ q.v.] and the later ḥimā Dariyya [ q.v.]. Being small in number they were never prominent. In pre-Islamic times one of them, Riyāḥ b. As̲h̲all, killed towards the middle of the 6th century A.D. S̲h̲aʾs, the son of Zuhayr b. ¶ Ḏj̲ad̲h̲īma, the powerful chieftain of the ʿAbs ( A g̲h̲ānī 1, x, 9 ff., 16). Riyāḥ’s daughter Ḵh̲abiyya was married to Ḏj̲aʿfar b. Kilāb b. Rabiʿa ( Naḳāʾiḍ Ḏj̲arīr wa ’l-Farazdaḳ , 106, 10; Mufaḍḍaliyyāt …

A settled and semi-settled tribe in ancient Arabia. The centre of their territory, Sūd Bāhila (Saud? — “corrected” in Hamdānī by an uninformed copyist into Sawād), extended on both sides of the direct route (described by Philby in The Heart of Arabia , vol. ii) from Riyad to Mecca. It is sufficiently well defined by the localities al-Ḳuwayʿ, D̲j̲azālā = Juzaila, al-Ḥufayr = Hufaira and the mountains al-Ḳatid = al-D̲j̲idd and (Ibnā) Shamāmi = Idhnain Shamal. The clan Ḏj̲iʾāwa (D̲j̲āwa) lived further westward at the …