Banu al-Harith

The Banu Harith descend from the Qahtanite people, one of the most prominent Arab tribes originating from Yemen.

[12] They were included in Point 31 of the Constitution of Medina and honored as allies to the Muslims, being as "one nation", but retaining their Jewish religion.

[5] The small remnants of Banu Harith continued to live semi-autonomously in the border city of Najran until the 1930s.

Persecution increased and the governor, Amir Turki bin Mahdi, allowed the Najrani Jews a single day to either evacuate or to convert to Islam.

[15][16][17] Their descendants currently make up a very small component of the Yemenite Jewish population which now mostly reside in Israel today.

Location of Banu Harith along with some of the major tribes of the Arabian Peninsula at the dawn of Islam (approximately 600 CE).