This cross-country migration gave the tribe a mixture of tribal origins and affiliations and created several clans composed of Arab, Berber and African components.
They practiced extensive animal husbandry associated with limited cereal cultivation, so they had wheat, meat and honey compared to the Oudaya and the Berabish who lived only on camel milk.
[2] In the early 16th century, the Portuguese diverted the traditional routes of gold and slave trade to the Atlantic coast which negatively impacted the Moroccan economy leading to an alliance between the Rahamna and the Saadians.
One of these sons was Abd al-Malik Saadi who died at the Battle of Alcácer Quibir and accompanied by his mother, went to Constantinople and sought the support of the Ottoman Empire for his claim on the Moroccan throne.
The Alaouite sultans relied on them to maintain order among the other tribes in the region, and consulted their governors and some of their faqihs to appoint the chiefs of the Haouz.
He also married El Bathul, the daughter of the qaid Abdallah Rehmâni and sent her brother Mohamed Ezouine on an embassy to the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid I.