On the threshold of the temple was seated Quotila, a woman of the Bani Asad tribe.
First came the privilege of being born in the most noble of all the Arab tribes, the Quraish; secondly, that of being brought up in the Bani Sad region, the most salubrious of the entire Hijaz.
Shortly after the birth of Mohammad, about a dozen women belonging to the tribe of the Bani Sad, all bronzed by the bracing breezes of their country, arrived at Makkah, to seek nurslings.
Home again at the Badya of the Bani Sad, Mohammad's first footsteps were printed on the ripple-marked carpet of the immaculate sands, where he inhaled with welcome nostrils the sweet odours of the aromatic plants growing on the hillocks.
In the Bani region a sandstone occurs from which grindstones are made.
The road of the seacoast, which, though longer, is preferable by reason of being more level, leaves Bani through a weird country, where giant cactus is the only vegetation produced by the rocky soil.
An encounter took place near Azua, in which the Dominican forces, under General Pedro Santana, were victorious, but instead of following up his victory, Santana fell back on Bani and permitted the enemy to occupy Azua.
Jarir of another branch of the Bani Tamim lived in Irak and courted the favour of Hajjaj, its governor.
In 1435 the people rose against the tyranny of the Bani Nebhan and restored the imamate of the tribe al-Azd.
Farazdaq of theBani Tamim, a good Moslem but loose in morals, lived chiefly in Medina and Kufa, and was renowned for his command of language.
Here he waited two months for reinforcements, and with his Bedouin contingent, strengthened by the adhesion of the Ateba and Bani Khalid tribes, advanced on Shakra in Wushm, which fell in January 1818 after a regular siege.
The Bani Nadir were expelled, theBani Quraiza slaughtered.
The most celebrated of these were 'Ajjaj and his son Ru'ba of the Bani Tamim (editions by W.
A Turkish detachment collecting taxes in the Bani Merwan lands north of Hodeda was destroyed by a body of Arabs.
Here the spirit of Ea-bani is supposed to behold from his couch in heaven the deeds that take place on the earth below.
Blissful lot of the spirit of Ea-bani described in the epic of Gisdhubar, 76-7.
When I passed I saw each abandoned camping ground of the Bani Ḥasan marked by a ring of dead animals, donkeys, sheep, and goats, which had perished in the unwonted cold.
On the 31st we were at Bani bridge, more than half-way to the Alambagh, when a telegram reached the Brigadier directing him to halt until Sir Colin Campbell (who had got as far as Cawnpore) should arrive.
In the true Bedouin spirit he devoted his talent largely to satire and attacked the bani Nahshal and the bani Fuqaim.
He was of the Darim, one of the most respected divisions of the bani Tamim, and his mother was of the tribe of Dabba.
Ilu-bani claimed it for the royal stables, and accordingly they went to the judges, and the judges sent them to the gate of Nin-Marki and the judges of the gate of Nin-Marki.
But at the end of this time Enlil-bani succeeded in ousting him from that position, and, having secured the throne himself, he continued to reign in Isin for twenty-four years.
Moreover, the name of Enlil-bani occurs in the Nippur list as that of the eleventh king of Isin.
The mythological being who resembles Ea-bani is repeated heraldically on each side of the text in conflict with a lion.
Oseir-ibn Zarim, the chief of Bani Nazeer, had maintained a hostile animosity against the Moslems of Medina, to war with whom he had enrolled himself in the adverse tribe of Ghatafán.
The Meccans were given four months' time to submit, in default of which they were to be attacked for their violation of the treaty and for their attacking the Bani Khozaa.
There had no actual fighting taken place between the Bani Koreiza and the Moslems, after the former had thrown off their allegiance to the latter and had aided and abetted the enemies of the realm.
A whole Sura in the Koran is devoted to the Bani Nazeer, but it does not hint at the alleged crime of their attempt on the life of the Prophet or their expulsion for the same cause.
Káb-ibn Ashraf was an influential Jew connected with the tribe ofBani Nazeer.
Subsequently, he had excited Bani Fezara and other Bedouin tribes to carry on their depredations among the Moslems.
The women and children of the Bani Koreiza were not sold.
Footnote 171: The Bani Kinana and Bani Zamara had not violated the truce of Hodeibia while the Koreish and Bani Bakr had done so.
Zeid bin Haris, seized and plundered by theBani Fezara, xiii.
The words of Hishamee (page 693) are "sabáya min sabáya Bani Koreiza.
Ea-bani is engaged with a lion, but his comrade is fighting with a massive horned-buffalo.
The hero stands between two bisons, one of which is being attacked by a lion and the other by a leopard, while the inhuman and semi-bestial Ea-bani is attacking the lion from behind.
The movements of Gilgamesh and Ea-bani are portrayed in a life-like manner, though the action of Ea-bani's left arm is somewhat awkward and ungraceful.
Our present copy is a tablet from the library of a later king, seemingly Ashur bani apal.
Particularly is this the case with the inscriptions of Sennacherib and Ashur bani apal.
For the period after the reign of Ashur bani apal, we have only the scantiest data.
Another good illustration is found in the cool taking by Ashur bani apal of bit after bit of the last two Egyptian campaigns of his father until in the final edition there is nothing that he has not claimed for himself.
Here the Egyptian wars are still counted as one expedition, but a second has been stolen for Ashur bani apal by taking over that campaign of his father against Baal of Tyre which is given in the Sinjirli inscription.
Noskowyj, Bonn, 1866); the Strife between the Bani Umayya and the Bani Hashim (ed G.
In vain Gilgamesh appealed to his mother goddess to restore Ea-bani to him.
Gilgamesh was also counselled in a vision of night to receive Ea-bani as an ally.
The description of Ea-bani recalls that of Nebuchadnezzar when he was stricken with madness.
Ea-bani is depicted on the cylinder seals as a hairy man-monster resembling the god Pan.
Ea-bani was attracted to Erech by the gift of a fair woman for wife.
Ea-bani was not attracted by city life and desired to return to the wilds, but Shamash prevailed upon him to remain as the friend of Gilgamesh, promising that he would be greatly honoured and exalted to high rank.
Ea-bani then defied her and threatened to deal with her as he had dealt with the bull, with the result that he was cursed by the goddess also.
Like the giant Alban, the eponymous ancestor of a people who invaded prehistoric Britain, Ea-bani appears to have represented in Babylonian folk legends a certain type of foreign settlers in the land.
In Nether Cuthah, as Ea-bani informed Gilgamesh, the worm devoured the dead amidst the dust and thick darkness.
Gilgamesh and Ea-bani appear to have become prosperous and happy.
Love broke the spell which kept Ea-bani in his savage state, and the wild beasts fled from him.
Thereafter Nergal, god of death, caused the grave to yawn, and the spirit of Ea-bani arose like a wind gust.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bani" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
