Mehri group members are also found in other countries in the Arabian Peninsula like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

[6] It belongs to the Modern South Arabian (MSA) subgroup of the Afroasiatic family's Semitic branch.

[4] A delegation from al-Mahra led by Mehri bin Al-Abid visited the Prophet of Allah, Muhammad, who presented Islam to them, and they embraced the faith.

[8] According to historical accounts, Mahri bin Qurdam, son of Al-Ajil from Ashhar, visited Muhammad, who honored and respected him despite the distance he had traveled.

When Mahri bin Qurdam intended to leave, Muhammad supported and carried him and wrote a letter for him, which remains with them to this day.

Their exploits were documented by the historian Ibn Abd Al-Hakam in his book titled "Futuh Misr wa Akhbaruha" (The Conquest of Egypt and Its News).

The Mehri tribe played a crucial role in the Arab Muslim army under the leadership of Amr ibn al-As, a renowned military commander and one of Muhammad's companions.

[9] Throughout the Islamic conquest of North Africa, the Mehri army was granted lands in the newly occupied territories.

The army was given additional land in the new capital, which later became known as Hayy Al-Mehri in Arabic, or the Mehri Quarter in English.

According to Y-DNA analysis by Černý et al. (2009), most inhabitants of Socotra, some of whom are Mehri descendants, belong to the basal haplogroup J.

[11] Mitochondrial analysis by Non (2010) found that the haplogroup R0a (27.7%) is the most common mtDNA clade among the Mehri within the Mahra Governorate.

The next most frequent maternal lineages borne by the Mehri are the haplogroups H (13.9%), R2 (13.9%), L2a1 (4.6%), and K (1.5%), as well as various subclades of the macro-haplogroup L(xM,N) (21.5%).