Banu Aws

Banu Aws
(Arabic: بنو أوس)
Banu Zahran of the Banu Azd
NisbaAwsi
LocationMedina, Hejaz
Descended fromZahran tribe

The Banū Aws (Arabic: بنو أوس  pronounced [ˈbanuː ʔaws], "Sons of Aws") or simply Aws (Arabic: أوس, also romanised as Aus) was one of the main Arab tribes of Medina. The other was Khazraj, and the two, constituted the Ansar ("Helpers of Muhammad”) after the Hijra.[1][2][3]

The Aws tribe descend from the ancient tribe al-Azd, a branch of the Qahtanite Arabs[4] Aws and Khazraj were known as Banū Qayla (بنو قيلة  [ˈbænuː ˈqɑjlæ]) in pre-Islamic era.[1]

  1. ^ a b Watt 1986, p. 771.
  2. ^ Gottheil & Hirschfeld
  3. ^ Jacobs & Montgomery
  4. ^ Peters, Francis E. (1994). Muhammad and the Origins of Islam. SUNY Press. ISBN 9780791418758.