Al Bu Kharaiban

[1] Lorimer, in his 1908 Gazeteer of the Persian Gulf, recorded some 140 Al Bu Kharabian living in Hafit village near Buraimi, noting they were semi-settled, cultivating dates in the summer and roaming to find pasture for their flocks in the winter.

He also observed some 700 Al Bu Kharaiban in Ajman town and a further 90 townsfolk and 90 Bedouin at Hamriyah (today a part of Sharjah).

[2] Lorimer identifies the Na'im in general as 'the most powerful Ghafiri tribe in the Dhahirah district of the Oman Sultanate' and identifies Ajman and Hamriyah as particular strongholds of the tribe, whose Bedouin he describes as 'warlike and predatory.

[5] Holding the fort in Buraimi, the tribe was powerful in that area[6] but would rally behind Zayed bin Khalifa both there and in Hatta, where they asked for his support in interceding in a conflict with the Bani Qitab in 1905.

[7] The village neighbouring Hatta, Masfut, was originally dependent on the Na'im of Buraimi but fell to the Al Bu Kharaiban ruler of Ajman, Rashid bin Humaid III, in 1948.

Ajman Fort, the seat of power of the Rulers of Ajman until 1967, when it became a police station. The Rulers of Ajman since its establishment in 1820 have been members of the Al Bu Kharabain subsection of the Na'im tribe.