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DHA-DHA
DHAFAIYAR (J abal)—
8ee (Jabal) Ghanmat.
DHAFGHAN—
A village lying 4 miles westward from Has Baghashwah {q.v.), in Hadhramaut, South-
ern Arabia. It is situated in a gap in the cliffs, fronted by a sandy beach, off which
there is a boat anchorage.— {Red Sea and Gulf of Aden Pilot, 1909.)
DHAFIR—
A village in Yemen situated in the hills about half way between the port of Lahiyah
and Sana'a, and apparently not far from the Wadi Jablab.
DHAFIR (T ribe)—
DHAFlR—
The Dhafir lie to the north of the Mutair along the Batin. Their dlrah stretches west
nearly to the pilgrimage route, the Darb Zubaidah, but in summer they draw in to the
Euphrates between Zubair and Samawah. Some of the sub-tribes such aa the Sa'iy
and Dhir'an, camp habitually in the Muntafik country to the east of the river. Thed
used to pay tribute to Ibn Rashid, but are now ceaselessly at feud with the Shammar.
They raid the Toqah tribes as far north as Karbala, but chiefly they harry the Shammar
m their spring pasturages east of the Nafud and hold up the Amir's caravans between
Hail and Kajaf. With the diminishing authority of the Rashids their aggressions have
multiplied, so that the old eastern caravan route, the Darb Zubaidah, has been almost
abandoned. Every year Ibn Rashid leads punitive expeditions against them. In
i the winter of 1915 he asked Hamud Ibn Suwait, the paramount Shaikh of the Dhafir,
to join him in an expedition against Ibn Sa'ud and Kuwait, but Hamud refused, plead-
i ing his weakness, the truth being that the hostility between the two is too bitter to admit
of any co-operation. Hamud is now (1917) a man of about 42, intelligent, and reckoned
amongst the Arabs a fairly good politician and tribal administrator. The Dhafir comprise
about 2,500 tents. The tribe falls into two main divisions, the Butun and the Samid
which are subdivided as follows :—
Al-Butun.
Shaikh Humud-ibn-Suwait; 1,500 men.
.. MandU-ibn-Kamil ., Doubtful whether they should
be classed among Humud's
people as they are at present
with Ibn Sa'ud. They are
Ahl-ash-Shamal descended from
Rabi 'ah.
'Adwan
'Awaizim.
Hussain (Bani)
Kathlr (Al)
Khalid (Bani)..
Sa 'id (As)
Suwait (As) .,
The Suwait are divided
'Afnan
'Askar
Battah.
Dhuwaihi
Haulah.
Ma 'alib.
Miz ? al.
Rasimi .,
Sultan.
Khalaf Ibn Ja'id
Jali Ibn Juraid
Zail Ibn Mandil
Mutni Ibn Khallaf
Humud Ibn Suwait
into the following sub-sections :—
.. Haza' Ibn Aqrab.
Munawwakh Ibn Quhaisan.
'Ali-adh-Dhuwaihi.
Claim to be descended from the
Ashraf.
Claim descent from the Qahtan
through the Bani Khalid.
Claim descent from the Qahtan.
Claim descent from the Qahtan.
They are in rebellion against
Humud and have joined 'Ajaimi.
The leading section. Claim
descent from he Ashraf.
Shuwailir.
This clan is of Shammar origin*