Ghassan who was so named after a spring of water, in Hijaz, where they stopped on their way to
Syria.
2. Lakhm and Judham: Of whom was Nasr bin Rabi‘a, father of Manadhira, Kings of Heerah.
3. Banu Tai’: Who also emigrated northwards to settle by the so- called Aja and Salma Mountains  which were consequently named as Tai’ Mountains.
4. Kinda: Who dwelt in Bahrain but were expelled to Hadramout and Najd where they instituted a  powerful government but not for long , for the whole tribe soon faded away.
Another tribe of Himyar, known as Quda‘a, also left Yemen and dwelt in Samawa semi-desert on  the borders of Iraq.
The Arabized Arabs go back in ancestry to their great grandfather Abraham (Peace be upon him) from  a  town called “Ar” near Kufa on the west bank of the Euphrates in Iraq. Excavations brought to light  great  details of the town, Abraham’s family, and the prevalent religions and social circumstances.
It is known that Abrahaml (Peace be upon him) eft Ar for Harran and then for Palestine, which he  made  headquarters for his Message. He wandered all over the area. When he went to Egypt, the Pharaoh  tried to do evil to his wife Sarah, but Allâh saved her and the Pharaoh’s wicked scheme recoiled on  him.
He thus came to realize her strong attachment to Allâh, and, in acknowledgment of her grace, the
Pharaoh rendered his daughter Hagar at Sarah’s service, but Sarah gave Hagar to Abraham as a wife.
Abraham returned to Palestine where Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Sarah became so jealous of Hagar  that she forced Abraham to send Hagar and her baby away to a plantless valley on a small hill in
Hijaz,  by the Sacred House, exposed to the wearing of floods coming right and left. He chose for them a  place  under a lofty tree above Zamzam near the upper side of the Mosque in Makkah where neither people  nor water was available, and went back to Palestine leaving with his wife and baby a leather case with  some dates and a pot of water. Not before long, they ran out of both food and water, but thanks to
Allâh’s favour water gushed forth to sustain them for sometime. The whole story of Zamzam spring is  already known to everybody.
Another Yemeni tribe – Jurhum the Second – came and lived in Makkah upon Hagar’s permission,  after  being said to have lived in the valleys around Makkah. It is mentioned in the Sahih Al-Bukhari that this  tribe came to Makkah before Ishmael was a young man while they had passed through that valley  long  before this event.
Abraham used to go to Makkah every now and then to see his wife and son. The number of these  journeys is still unknown, but authentic historical resources spoke of four ones.
Allâh, the Sublime, stated in the Noble Qur’ân that He had Abraham see, in his dream, that he  slaughtered his son Ishmael, and therefore Abraham stood up to fulfill His Order:
“Then, when they had both submitted themselves (to the Will of Allâh), and he had laid him  prostrate on his forehead (or on the side of his forehead for slaughtering); and We called out to  him: “O Abraham! You have fulfilled the dream (vision)!” Verily! Thus do we reward the
Muhsinûn (good-doers, who perform good deeds totally for Allâh’s sake only, without any show  off or to gain praise or fame, etc. and do them in accordance to Allâh’s Orders). Verily, that  indeed was a manifest trial — and We ransomed him with a great sacrifice (i.e. a ram)” 37:103-
107
It is mentioned in the Genesis that Ishmael was thirteen years older than his brother Ishaq. The  sequence of the story of the sacrifice of Ishmael shows that it really happened before Ishaq’s birth,  and  that Allâh’s Promise to give Abraham another son, Ishaq, came after narration of the whole story.
This story spoke of one journey – at least – before Ishmael became a young man. Al-Bukhari, on the  authority of Ibn ‘Abbas, reported the other three journeys; a summary of which goes as follows:
When Ishmael became a young man, he learned Arabic at the hand of the tribe of Jurhum, who loved  him with great admiration and gave him one of their women as a wife, soon after his mother died.
Having wanted to see his wife and son again, Abraham came to Makkah, Ishmael’s marriage, but he  didn’t find him at home. He asked Ishmael’s wife about her husband and how they were doing. She  complained of poverty, so he asked her to tell Ishmael to change his doorstep. Ishmael understood