History Of Dhulbhante Tribes

Dhulbahante is one of the major somali tribes .their family tree belongs to the Harti Koombe  who was the grandson of King  Darod . Dhulbahante is a knickname His name was  Chief Said Harti.

Dhulbahante had six brothers and seven sisters , his brothers were named  Majeerteen ,Warsangali ,Dishiishle ,liibaangashle and more .

His mother was name fadumo timocad (qandhicilay) , but Historically when King Harti died who was their father and the founder of the Harti Nation  according to the legend the oldest son of the family who was Majeerteen tried to plot under this brothers his plot was to steal the wealth that their father King harti left for his family , Dhulbahante  who was much younger then majeerteen understood the plot  and fled with his fathers wealth ( camels, sheeps and some gold ) to the Hawd area of Somalia (Reserve area) which located North-Western at the  of Somalia a place call Cayn (Buuhoodle.) At that time nobody ever came after him to claim his or her part of the Harti's wealth.

 For many years Said Harti lived in these forests and have started a family there. Dhulbahante had four sons and they were Osman, Muse, Abokor and Turyare . 

His sons later become the founders of the Dhulbhante Nation of Today  . Muse is the clan or the great grandfather for almost 91 percent of the Dhulbahante people.

According to the  U.N , AU, IGAD, and Dhulbahante elders  Dhulbahante's descendants are estimated today more than 600,000 members, about one-third and half of Harti's descendants are of Dhulbahante , Dhulbahante resides Sool, Sanaag, Cayn, Together, Nugal, and Lower Juba states of Somalia, North Eastern province of Kenya, and Eastern Ethiopia. They are the majority in Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn, and minorities in all other states. 

Traditionally, Harti has a kingdom but after Said Harti fled from it, the kingdom remained only for the Majeerteen, so Majeerteen became the King of the other Eastern Harti Nation and  Dhulbahante  announced his own Kingdom "Ugaas " which is was another form of leadership title in the past .

But However when Garaad (king) Shirshore was born as an Ugaas, he changed the name to a "Garaad." (Ruleship in somali) and became the everlasting Kingdom of the Western harti nation of today also known as Dhulbahante .

Dhulbahante around 1700 Ad they start residing  areas that are  less diverse compared to the other Harti members or generally to the Somali clans. However, this helped the Dhulbahante people to be safe during the next 380 years til the Europeans came to divide the land of the Somalis.

Around 1900 Ad the Dhulbhante were the first tribe in somali who started a war  against the European colonizers of the 1900  Ad.

Dhulbahante Clan Tree:

Darod

         Sade (Marehan)

Tanade

         Ciise

Kablalah

         Absame

                  Ogaden

                  Habartiwaaq

                  Abaskuul

                  Bartire

         Koombe

                  Geri

                  Harti

                           Mohamed (Majeerteen)

                           Warsangeli
                                Said (Dhulbahante)

         Osman

         Tuuryar

         Abokor

         Muse

                  Hayaag

                  Mohamed (Ururwayn)

Abdalle

         Yahye        

Habrwaa

         Khalid

         Garaad Shirshoore

                  Farah

Mohamud

                  Abdi (Qayaad)