At a glance
- Roles
- tribal-ancestor
- Era
- Pre-Islamic Arabia
- Region
- Arabia · Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Family, marriage and kinshipRefugees, migrants and diaspora
Overview
Jafna ibn Amr Muzayqiya, of the Azd. He went to Syria in the migration of the Azd and settled there with his sons, and he is the father of the kings of the Ghassanids. 1 2
The name Ghassan
The Ghassanids are named after a water in the Hijaz known as Ghassan, where they first settled before moving to Syria. 1 In the accounts of kingship in Syria, the house of Ghassan overcame the Dajaʿima over what they held, and the Romans then appointed them kings over the Arabs of Syria (see the Ghassanid kingdom). 3
On lineage
The author counts the sons of Jafna among the kings of Syria in the clans of Kahlan. 4 Elsewhere he relays the view of Sulayman al-Nadwi that the kings of the house of Ghassan were from the house of Nabit ibn Isma'il, and not from Qahtan. 5
For young visitors
Jafna settled in the lands of Syria with his sons, and his children became kings there, known as the Ghassanids.
Connections
- Sibling of
- Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya
- Child of
- Amr ibn Amir Muzayqiya
- Member of
- al-Azd
- Lived in
- al-Sham (Greater Syria)
- Founder of
- The Ghassanid Kingdom
People and things also explored
Tha'laba ibn Amr al-Azdi· Imran ibn Amr Muzayqiya· al-Azd· Amr ibn Amir Muzayqiya· The Daja'ima (Banu Salih)· Qudaʾa· the Plague of 'Amwas (18 AH)· Surad ibn Abdullah al-Azdi comes to the Prophet and embraces Islam
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.17
- Qalb Jazirat al-Arab — Fuʾad Hamza , p.231-235
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.27
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.16
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri , p.20
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Jafna ibn Amr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/jafna-ibn-amr/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.