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.