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'Mudhar' or 'Mudar' (Arabic: 'مضر'), purported patriarch of one of two major branches of the so-called "North Arabian" (Adnanite) tribes, the other branch being Rabi'ah.
Mudhar descended from ''Nizar'', the son of ''Ma'ad'', the son of ''Adnan''. Adnan's descent is traced over forty generations to ''Ismail'' son of Abraham.^[1]

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Mudar Branches

Elias bin Mudar branch

Tamim bin Murra

Hudhail bin Mudrika

Khuzaimah

Asad Bin Khuzaimah

Kinana Bin Khuzaimah

Qais Ailan bin Mudar branch

Banu Ghatafan

Banu Huwazin and Banu Saleem

Sources

References

Mudar Branches

Around the 1st century BC Mudhar sons Elias and Qais Ailan branched into two major branches

Elias bin Mudar branch

The Elias branch split into 3 major banches

Tamim bin Murra

The Banu Tamim spread in the land between Southern Mespotomia (Al-Basra) to the Center of the Arabian Peninsula, Jordan, Khuzestan in Iran, Tunisia and the first Muslim Dynasty in Sicily.

Hudhail bin Mudrika

The Bani Hudhail lived between Mecca and Medina. Banu Lihyan branched out of the Banu Hudhail

Khuzaimah

Branched to Asad bin Khuzaimah and Kinana bin Khuzaimah

Asad Bin Khuzaimah

Banu Asad lived in Hijaz, Nejd and Iraq. They established the town of Hilla in Iraq

Kinana Bin Khuzaimah

Branched into Quraish bin Fahr bin Malik bin An-Nadr bin Kinana.
Quraish branched out into various tribes, the most famous of whom were Jumah, Sahm, ‘Adi, Makhzum, Tayim, Zahra and the three septs of Qusai bin Kilab: ‘Abdud-Dar bin Qusai, Asad bin ‘Abdul ‘Uzza bin Qusai and ‘Abd Manaf bin Qusai.

Qais Ailan bin Mudar branch

The Qias branched into three major branches:

Banu Ghatafan

The Banu Ghatafan were the biggest of the three tribes and lived along with the other Qaisi tribes east of Mecca near Taif. Sometimes historians referred to all the Qais tribes as Ghatafan in the pre-Isalmic times.
Banu Ghatafan branched into Abs, Mutaiyr, Zubyan, Ashja‘a and Ghani bin Asur.
Qais settled Syria after the introduction of Islam.

Banu Huwazin and Banu Saleem

The Banu Huwazin and Banu Saleem lived near Banu Ghatafan and converted to Islam after their defeat in the Battle of Hunayn. Settled Syira after Islam.

Sources

1. The Arab history - Mudar tribe

References

★ Almaqhafi, Awwad: ''Qabayl Wa Biton Al-Arab''

★ Almsaodi, Abdulaziz; ''Tarikh Qabayl Al-Arab''

★ History Ibn Khaldoun

★ History Ibn al-Athir

★ History Ibn Hisham

★ History Al-Hamdani