Bomba (tribe)

The Bomba, also spelled as Bambas, are a tribe of Muzaffarabad District in Azad Kashmir Pakistan mainly found in Kahori and Naseerabad. They are also found in the Mansehra District of the North West Frontier Province (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa) of Pakistan.[1] A few also live in Kupwara district of Kashmir.

History and origin

The original word is Banbah (بنبه) not the Bomba. They style themselves as "Sultans", and claim origins from the Quraysh Arab tribe, the name Banbah is a corruption of Bani Omayyad. The ancestor of the tribe is Abdullah bin Othman (عبدالله بن عثمان) the son of Othman Ibn Affan (عثمان ابن عفان) and Ruqayyah binte Muhammad (رقيه بنت محمد۴). The family tree is available at International Library Muzaffarabad. Some people says that Banbahs are from the Rajput origins. But they do not provide any proof. The family tree which is available at the Muzaffarabad library. It is compiled by Mir Muhammad Ali Qanungo ("Expounder of law" A rank in judicial system of Kashmir, Punjab and all over of Pakistan) District Muzaffarabad state of Kashmir. Many families are related with it. Especially the family of Pir Faqirullah Bakoti and Sultan Hasan Ali Khan of Boi also belong to the same tribe. This family tree was published in the year of 1920 By Khuda Bakhsh Khan Banbah, not at the time of partition of India and Pakistan.

Most people knows that Abdullah Al Asghar was died in early age but this is not correct. Some authentic historians are agreed that he was not died at the age of six. Al Masudi, [2] tells that he was died at the age of 67.

Tahir Almaki[3] gives the reference of Al Masoodi on his own research in his book. Hakeem Faiz Alam Sidique[4] discussed the topic thoroughly and provides the proves and references. Peer Sayed Abdul Sattar Shah,[5] Sultan Muhammad Najib ur Rehman [6] and an English writer J. Spencer Trimingham[7] also says that Abdullah Al Asghar's descendans are found in Africa and Asia.

In the book "Islam in Ethiopia" Mr. Trimingham tells that in Ethiopia, the Jabarti is a term that used for many tribes. The major and chief branch of Jabrati is from the descendants of Usman ibn Affan's son Abdullah whose mother was Ruqayya, the daughter of Muhammad.

Hashmatullah Lakhnavi,[8] Molana Nadvi,[9] Mohammadudin Fouq,[10] Sher Bahadur Khan Panni [11] are also agreed that Abdullah Al Asghar did not died at the early age and Banbahs are not the local residents of Kashmir.

In the book Sultan Bahoo the author Sultan Muhammad Najib ur Rehman gives a family tree of "Bibi Pak Daman (Bibi Rasti)" the mother of Hazrat Shah Rukn e Alam (Multan). He gives the family tree as a proof that Bibi Rasti (Bibi Pak Daman) was not the mother of Sultan Bahoo. She was the daughter of Sultan Jamal ud Din Muhammad Al-Farghani. The family tree is given in the pictures below named by Shajra Bani Ruqayya 3-4.

The family tree which is available at Muzaffarabad International Library and Gujarkhan municipal corporation office, According to this family tree which is dated on 1905 A.D. The family is migrated from Badakshan to Kashmir. Molana Akbar Shah Khan Najeeb Abadi Says in his book Tareek-e-Islam That, when Abbasi's got the power and they became in rule they ordered to kill all of Bani Umayya's. But some of them succeed to escape and spread in Koh-e-Sulaiman, Sind, Punjab and Kashmir and did not showed their family name and identity, in fact, they changed their identity to save themselves.

In "Tareekh Aqwame Kashmir" Muhammad ud Deen Fouq says that in the history "Sultan Muzaffar Khan" the founder of "Muzaffarabad" Azad Kashmir was the first man who is known by the name "Banbah".

According to the family tree, Sultan Kashif arrived in Kashmir from Badakshan. History tells us that at the time of Mehdi Abbasi, one of the grandsons of Ameer Máaviyah who was escaped to Khurasan, came to the palace and met Mehdi Abbasi and ask him to kill the muqanea, the fake prophet in Khurasan.

According to "Tareekh e Hazara" by Sher Bahadur Khan Panni, Sultan Kashif arrived in Kashmir from Badakshan at the time of Mughal Emperor Jahangir, and settled in Kurmung, Kamal Khan was the governor of the Kurmung from the Turk's rule, He married his daughter to Kashif Khan. But after a few years he killed him. Kashif Khan had a son from Kamal Khan's daughter, named Qasim Khan. Sultan Muzaffar Khan was descendant of Qasim Khan in the 16th generation. The last picture in the bottom is a small portion of "Tareekh e Hazara". in this portion the author discussed "Banbah Tribe" in details.

This is another evidence to proof that the Banbah tribe is not from the hill Rajpoot origin. They have arrived from Badakshan to Kashmir.

Most of the historians are agreed that the Banbas are not the indigenous people of Kashmir, and from the Quraysh origin from the descendants of "Othman Ibn Affan" the third Calif of Islam.

Banbahs of Hazara Division

The Banbahs are found in smaller numbers in the Boi tract of the Mansehra District also in Mansehra city of the Hazara Division of the North West Frontier Province/Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. They are represented by two main families, one of Boi and the other of Jabri Kahsh. The Boi family is an important one in this region.They are also found in Kahori and Pattika in Azad Kashmir. [12]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India. Provincial Series: Kashmir and Jammu Adamant co, p9
  2. ↑ Tareekh e Masudi
  3. ↑ Haqiqi Ahle Bait yani Rasoolalah Ki Ghar Walian
  4. ↑ Sadaat e Bani Ruqayyah
  5. ↑ Aal e Ruqayya Tuz Zahra
  6. ↑ Sultan Bahoo
  7. ↑ Islam in Ethiopia
  8. ↑ Tareekh e Jamu
  9. ↑ Arab O Hind Kay Tauluqat
  10. ↑ Tareekh e Aqwam e Kashmir
  11. ↑ Tareekh e Hazara
  12. ↑ Punjabi Musalmans by J M Wikely

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