{
 "id": "group/banu-hanifa",
 "class": "group",
 "slug": "banu-hanifa",
 "label": {
  "ar": "بنو حنيفة",
  "en": "Banu Hanifa"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "قبيلة عربية كبيرة أهل اليمامة؛ منها مسيلمة بن حبيب الملقب بالكذاب الذي ادعى النبوة فكاتبها النبي وتبعه أكثر أهلها حتى هزمهم خالد بن الوليد في وقعة اليمامة سنة 12هـ وأدخلهم مجاعة بن مرارة في الصلح فأسلموا وأخذت منهم الصدقة؛ وكانت اليمامة قبل الإسلام لخيرتهم هوذة بن علي الحنفي الذي دعاهم النبي إلى الإسلام.",
  "en": "A great Arab tribe, the people of al-Yamama; of them was Musaylima ibn Habib, called the Liar, who claimed prophecy — the Prophet addressed a letter to him — and most of them followed him until Khalid ibn al-Walid defeated them at the battle of al-Yamama in 12 AH, whereupon Mujja'a ibn Murara brought them to terms and they embraced Islam and the alms were taken from them; before Islam al-Yamama's chief had been Hawdha ibn Ali al-Hanafi whom the Prophet invited to Islam."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [
  "arabia"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era",
  "period/rashidun"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "tribe",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "فتوح البلدان (ط مؤسسة المعارف 1407هـ/1987م) ص 115–123",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-futuh-buldan-batch-5"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407",
   "source/mubarakpuri-raheeq",
   "source/muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya",
   "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "بنو حنيفة قبيلة ربعية عدنانية، يعدّها الرحيق المختوم من [[group/rabia-ibn-nizar|ربيعة]] مع أسد بن ربيعة وعنزة وعبد القيس وابني وائل {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.20}. خرج بنو حنيفة بن صعب بن علي بن بكر إلى [[place/al-yamama|اليمامة]] فنزلوا بحجر قصبة اليمامة {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.21} {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya 1/15-16}."
    },
    {
     "heading": "ما لم يُذكر هنا",
     "markdown": "أمر مسيلمة ووفد بني حنيفة وحروب الردة باليمامة تُعرض في مداخلها؛ انظر بيانات هذا المدخل عن فتوح البلدان."
    },
    {
     "heading": "للزوار الصغار",
     "markdown": "بنو حنيفة سكنوا اليمامة في وسط الجزيرة، وكانت مدينتهم حجر."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/banu-hanifa",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-15"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "Banu Hanifa is an Adnanite tribe of Rabi'a. The Sealed Nectar counts them among [[group/rabia-ibn-nizar|Rabi'a]], with Asad ibn Rabi'a, Anaza, Abd al-Qays and the two sons of Wa'il. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.20} Banu Hanifa ibn Sa'b ibn Ali ibn Bakr went out to [[place/al-yamama|al-Yamama]] and settled at Hajr, the chief town of al-Yamama. {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.21} {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya 1/15-16}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Not covered here",
     "markdown": "The affair of Musaylima, the delegation of Banu Hanifa, and the wars of apostasy in al-Yamama are presented in their own entries. See the data of this entry for the conquests of the lands."
    },
    {
     "heading": "For young visitors",
     "markdown": "Banu Hanifa lived in al-Yamama, in the centre of the Arabian Peninsula, and their chief town was Hajr."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/banu-hanifa",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "بنو حنیفہ ربعی عدنانی قبیلہ ہیں، جنہیں الرحیق المختوم [[group/rabia-ibn-nizar|ربیعہ]] میں شمار کرتا ہے، ساتھ میں اسد بن ربیعہ، عنزہ، عبدالقیس اور وائل کے دو بیٹے {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.20}۔ بنو حنیفہ بن صعب بن علی بن بکر [[place/al-yamama|یمامہ]] کی طرف نکلے اور یمامہ کے قصبے حجر میں جا اترے {cite:mubarakpuri-raheeq p.21} {cite:muhadarat-tarikh-al-umam-al-islamiyya 1/15-16}۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "جو یہاں ذکر نہیں ہوا",
     "markdown": "مسیلمہ کا معاملہ، بنو حنیفہ کا وفد اور یمامہ میں ارتداد کی جنگیں اپنے متعلقہ مداخل میں پیش کی جاتی ہیں؛ اس مدخل کے ڈیٹا میں فتوحِ البلدان کے بارے میں دیکھیے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "چھوٹے قارئین کے لیے",
     "markdown": "بنو حنیفہ وسطِ جزیرہ نما کے یمامہ میں آباد تھے، اور ان کا شہر حجر تھا۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "group/banu-hanifa",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-19"
  }
 },
 "degree": 14,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "person/hawdha-ibn-ali-al-hanafi",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/kamil-ibn-al-athir"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "person/musaylima",
   "type": "has_member",
   "inverse": true
  },
  {
   "to": "event/capture-and-islam-of-thumama-ibn-uthal",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "ثمامة سيدهم؛ منع ميرة اليمامة عن مكة",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "place/al-yamama",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "note": "سكان اليمامة",
   "sources": [
    "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/battle-of-yamama",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أهل اليمامة وجيش مسيلمة ثم المصالَحون",
   "sources": [
    "source/futuh-buldan-maarif-1407"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "event/delegation-of-banu-hanifa",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "event/musaylima-claims-prophethood",
   "type": "participated_in",
   "inverse": false,
   "role": "أجمعوا معه",
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-hisham-saqqa"
   ]
  }
 ],
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  "event/musaylima-claims-prophethood",
  "event/battle-of-yamama",
  "person/musaylima",
  "place/al-yamama",
  "person/muhammad",
  "event/delegation-of-banu-hanifa",
  "event/musaylimas-letter-and-the-prophets-reply",
  "person/khalid-ibn-al-walid"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}