Banu Sa'd

The Banu Sa'd (Arabic: بنو سعد / ALA-LC: Banū Saʿd) was one of the leading royal tribes of Arabia during the Islamic prophet Muhammad's era. They were a subgroup of the larger Hawazin tribal confederation. They had close family relations with Muhammad. They were great warriors and fought many battles with Muhammad against enemies of Islam. ^{[citation needed]} Halima Sadia, Muhammad's wet nurse, belonged to this tribe.^[1]

Banu Saad بني سعد
Ethnicity	Arabs
Nisba	Saadi/السعدي
Location	Hejaz, Saudi Arabia
Parent tribe	Hawazin
Branches	Banu Nasr Banu Jashm bin Saad Banu Waqdan
Language	Arabic
Religion	Islam

Map of the Arabian Peninsula in 600 AD, showing the various Arab tribes and their areas of settlement. The Lakhmids (yellow) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Sasanian Empire, while the Ghassanids (red) formed an Arab monarchy as clients of the Roman Empire A map published by the British academic Harold Dixon during World War I, showing the presence of the Arab tribes in West Asia, 1914