Banu Ju'fa

Banu Ju'fa
بنو جعفى
Qahtanite Arabs
Banner of Ju'fa at the Battle of Siffin (657)
EthnicityArab
NisbaAl-Ju'fi الجعفي
LocationYemen
Descended fromJu'fi ibn Sa'd al-'Ashirah
Parent tribeMadh'hij
ReligionPaganism, later Islam

Banu Ju'fa (Arabic: بنو جعفى) known also as Ju'fa, is an Arabian tribe descended from Sa'd al-Ashirah of the larger Madh'haj tribe.

The Famous Abbasid Arab poet Al-Mutanabbi is a descendant of Banu Ju'fa.

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