Back الخزرج (قبيلة) Arabic Xəzrəc Azerbaijani বনু খাযরাজ Bengali/Bangla Banu Khàzraj Catalan خەزرەج CKB Banu Chazradsch German Banu al-Ĥazraĝ Esperanto خزرج Persian Banu Khazraj French बनु खज़रज Hindi
| Banu Khazraj بنو خزرج | |
|---|---|
| Kahlanite Arab tribe | |
| Ethnicity | Arab |
| Nisba | Khazraji |
| Descended from | Al-Khazraj bin Haritha bin Tha'labah bin Amr bin 'Amir bin Haritha bin Tha'labah bin Mazen bin al-Azd |
| Parent tribe | Azd |
| Language | Arabic |
| Religion | Sunni Islam, Shia Islam |
The Banu Khazraj (Arabic: بنو خزرج) is a large Arab tribe based in Medina. They were also in Medina during Muhammad's era.
The Banu Khazraj are a South Arabian Qahtanite tribe that were pressured out of South Arabia as a result of the destruction of the Marib Dam. Along with their cousin tribe, the Aws, they migrated to Yathrib, later known as Medina.[1][2]
- ^ Peters, Francis E. (1994). Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791418758.
- ^ Watt 1986, p. 771