Ḥāshid is the name of a set of tribes in northern Yemen. In genealogies from the Islamic period, Ḥāshid and Bakīl appear as brothers descended from Hamdān b. Zayd, and Hamdān had been the name of the leading Ḥāshid family before Islam. The fourth/tenth-century account of the geographer and genealogist al-Ḥasan al-Hamdānī (d. 334/945) suggests complex layering of identity. Khārif, for example, now a major Ḥāshid tribe, is depicted as widely scattered rather than a discrete entity, yet Khārif sent a delegation to the prophet