HISTORICAL FLASHES

Mutair is the name of tribe residing in a region bounded by Red sea and Arabian Gulf. Its origin refers to the famous old arabic tribe Qatafan lived between Al-Madinah and Al-Qassem.

Al-Omari ( d. 1320) stated in his book entitled "Msalik Alabsar Fi Mmalik Alamsar" Mutair explicitly as a known tribe in Hijaz region (i.e. the western part of Arabia). On the other hand, Al-Kalkshandi mentioned that Mutair is a branch of Fizarah belonging to Qatafan. Based upon this, it can be concluded that Mutair is the Qatafani groups remained in arabia gathered under the name of Mutair which is originally a branch of Qatafan.

Al-Samhoudi in his book " Wafaa Al-Wafaa" brought to attention that Mutair became a known and famous clan at that time and took action against rulers who tried to overlap its properties. He wrote a very interesting event for Mutair people. In 1407, a battle occurred between Jammaz Al-Husaini ( ruler of Al-Madinah) and some mutairis. It is resulted in killing Jammaz. No surprise if you knew that Jammaz killed by mutairi after his very bad action when he stool Al-Hijrah AlNabawiyah and Al-Masjed Al-Nabawy ( mosque of prophet base be upon him).

Later on , Mutair starts to arise in Hijas history specifically in 14, 15 and 16 centuries. As a consequence of Mutair to become a very strong tribe, it moved to Najd where Mutair had battles with a very famous other tribes such as Anazah, Dhafeer, Al-Fodool and Qahtan. In 17 and 18 centuries, Mutair was the dominant tribe in Najd. After that, Mutair beated Bni-Khalid and her leader Ibn-Oraier in Al-Rudayemah in 1818. Al-Rudayemah was the point wher Ibn-Orier ruling of eastern  part of arabia vanished. As a result, Mutair  captured lands under Bni-Khalid and began to move from Najd to east.

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