Awlad Himayd is a group of people who are part of the greater Baggara Arabs tribes of Kordofan and Darfur that includes the Habbaniya and Ta'isha.
Their inner southern nomadic area is part of the wilderness of South Kordofan, a dense high savanna forest land.
The majority are pastoralists, and the rest are farmers; they grow all types of South Kordofan crops: sesame, millets, okra, and ground nuts.
Gray-bees (Nahala el ghibasha in Arabic), the fiercest type of bee in South Kordofan, are nicknamed "Awlad Himayd" because of their courage.
MacMichael [1] mentioned that their Arab ancestors may have settled around Tekali in the eastern part of South Kordofan at a time of the great Guhayna movement, and they have been reinforced by others of their kin who have returned from the western countries (probably from present-day Chad).