Jurhum ( ar, جرهم, Jurhum; also Banu Jurhum or The second Jurhum) historically referred to as Gorrhamite by the Greeks, was an old
Arab tribe in the
Arabian peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula, (; ar, شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَةِ الْعَرَبِيَّة, , "Arabian Peninsula" or , , "Island of the Arabs") or Arabia, is a peninsula of Western Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate ...
. Traditionally, they were a
Qahtanite tribe whose historical abode was
Yemen before they immigrated to
Mecca.
Kaaba
According to
Arabic accounts, the tribe of the Jurhum gave protection to
Hagar and her son
Ishmael
Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...
, a relationship cemented with Ishmael's marriage to a Jurhumite woman, Rala bint Mudad ibn 'Amr ibn Jurhum ibn
Himyar ibn
Qahtan.
The Jurhum are said to have been involved in the worship centering around the
Kaaba
The Kaaba (, ), also spelled Ka'bah or Kabah, sometimes referred to as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah ( ar, ٱلْكَعْبَة ٱلْمُشَرَّفَة, lit=Honored Ka'bah, links=no, translit=al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah), is a building at the c ...
, the holy sanctuary rebuilt by Ishmael and his father
Abraham and revered as a pilgrimage site.
According to one tradition, their custodianship over the Kaaba ended after they were ousted by the
Khuza'a, a tribal group from the south.
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Well of Zamzam
Islam
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ic tradition further holds that Hagar and Ishmael found a spring in Mecca, the Zamzam well, from which the Jurhum wanted to drink, and that after their ousting by the Khuza'a tribe, the Jurhum collected the treasures dedicated to the Kaaba and destroyed the Zamzam well so that nobody would find it.
See also
* Tribes of Arabia
* Ishmaelites
References
Bibliography
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Further reading
* Adil Salahi
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(1995). ''Muhammad: Man and Prophet'', pg. 4–8, The Islamic Foundation (UK), or Barnes & Noble
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(NY), or Element Books Limited, Shaftesbury, Dorset.
Tribes of Arabia
Tribes of Saudi Arabia
Yemeni tribes
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