The Banu Jumah ( ar, بنو جُمح) is a clan of the

Quraish The Quraysh ( ar, قُرَيْشٌ) were a grouping of Arab clans that historically inhabited and controlled the city of Mecca and its Kaaba. The Islamic prophet Muhammad was born into the Hashim clan of the tribe. Despite this, many of the Qu ...

tribe The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confli ...

. They are notable for being allies to the

polytheist Polytheism is the belief in multiple deities, which are usually assembled into a pantheon of gods and goddesses, along with their own religious sects and rituals. Polytheism is a type of theism. Within theism, it contrasts with monotheism, the ...

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...

ns and being in war with the

Muslims Muslims ( ar, المسلمون, , ) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God of Abrah ...

. They are related to the

Banu Sahm The Banu Sahm ( ar, بنو سهم) is a clan of the Quraish tribe. They are related to the Banu Jumah, as they both were part of a larger clan descended from the same ancestor, the Banu Husays. People *Khunais ibn Hudhaifa * 'Amr ibn al-'As * His ...

, as they both were part of a larger clan descended from the same ancestor, the Banu Husays. In the Battle of the Camel, a group of Banu Jumah was with

A'ishah Aisha ( ar, , translit=ʿĀʾisha bint Abī Bakr; , also , ; ) was Muhammad's third and youngest wife. In Islamic writings, her name is thus often prefixed by the title "Mother of the Believers" ( ar, links=no, , ʾumm al- muʾminīn), referr ...

, according to the

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

People

Umayah ibn Khalaf Umayya ibn Khalaf () (died 13 March 624) was an Arab slave master and the chieftain of the Banu Jumah of the Quraysh in the seventh century. He was one of the chief opponents against the Muslims led by Muhammad. Umayya is best known as the maste ...

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Safwan ibn Umayya Ṣafwān ibn Umayya ( ar, صفوان بن أمية; died 661) was a ''sahabi'' (companion) of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. ''Tarikh al-Rusul wa'l-Muluk''. Translated by Landau-Tasseron, E. (1998). ''Volume 39: Biograp ...

(his son) *Karima bint Ma'mar ibn Habib (his wife; mother of his children) *Barza bint Masud (Safwan's wife; his daughter-in-law) *Abdullah ibn Safwan (Safwan and Barza's son; his grandson) *Hisham ibn Safwan (Safwan and Barza's son; his grandson) *Umayya ibn Safwan (Safwan and Barza's son; his grandson) *Umm Habib bint Safwan (Safwan and Barza's daughter; his granddaughter) *Safwan ibn Abdullah (Abdullah ibn Safwan's son; his great-grandson) *Amr ibn Adbullah (Safwan ibn Abdullah's brother; his great-grandson) *Umayyah ibn Safwan (Safwan ibn Abdullah's son; his great-great-grandson) *His sister (mother of Barza bint Masud) *Rabah, Walid, Ali, Ahyah, Mas'ud, and Salamah ibn Umayya (Safwan's siblings) *Usayd ibn Ahyah (Ahyah ibn Umayya's son; his grandson) * Uthman ibn Mad'hun (his second cousin) * Zainab bint Mad'hun (Uthman's sister; his second cousin) *Qadamah ibn Mad'hun (Uthman's brother) *Abdullah ibn Mad'hun (Uthman's brother) *Sa'ib ibn Mad'hun (Uthman's brother) *Qutilah bint Mad'hun (Uthman's sister) *Wahb and Ubayy ibn Khalaf (his brothers) *Hind bint Ubayy (Ubayy's daughter; his niece, and daughter-in-law; she married Mas'ud ibn Umayya) *Zamm'a ibn Ubayy (Ubayy ibn Khalaf's son; his nephew) *Abdullah ibn Ubayy (Ubayy ibn Khalaf's son; his nephew) *Wahba bint Ubayy (Ubayy ibn Khalaf's daughter; his niece) *Nashayd ibn Mas'ud (Mas'ud ibn Umayyah's son; his grandson) *Ibrahim ibn Amir (Amir ibn Mas'ud's son;his great grandson) *Ali ibn Usayd (Usayd ibn Ahyah's son; his great grandson) *Umayr ibn Wahb (Wahb ibn Khalaf's son; his nephew) *Wahb ibn Umayr (Umayr ibn Wahb's son; his great-nephew) *Sufyan ibn Ma'mar (Karima bint Ma'mar ibn Habib's brother; his second cousin) *Khawlah bint Hakim (his cousin-in-law; Uthman's wife) *As-Sa'ib ibn Uthman (Uthman and Khawlah's son; his nephew) *Yahya ibn Hakim *Amir ibn Masud (Masud ibn Umayya and Hind bint Ubayy's son; his grandson) *Aws ibn Mi'yar *Unays ibn Mi'yar (Aws' brother) *Abd-al-Malik and Hudayr ibn Aws (Aws' sons) *Ayyub ibn Habib

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