Ayasrah (/eɪæsrɑː/ AYA-s-rah; Arabic: عياصره), is a noble tribe living in Jordan. They trace their lineage back to the Quraysh, as Hashemite descendants of Muhammad. They lived in Jordan before centuries in a mountain town called Sakib located to the west of the city of Jerash.
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Some of their famous men are Ahmed Alaysarani and Raja Alayasarani "Abu Shibley" Sheikh & Mukhtar of Sakib in 1913 during Ottoman rule.
Etymology
They took the name of the village Aysarah, which formed the northern part of the old Sakib.
History
In the 16th century, the total population of (Sakib, Aysarah, and Be'na) was 33 households, including three Imams. The townspeople were required to pay a tax on both livestock and crops, as well as Waqf (charity due to Muhyiddin Ibn Sharaf al-Din Kharroub), all collected for the army.
Campaign of Prince Ali Fakhr-al-Din II
Sakib witnessed important military campaigns, including the campaign of Prince Ali the son of Fakhr-al-Din II in 1612, when he led a military campaign on the orders of his father to pursue Farroukh who was Sanjak of Ajlun, Karak and Nablus. Prince Ali was able to defeat him, after which he set up camp in Sakib and remained there. However, the Levant ruler Hafiz Pasha wrote to the minister Nassouh Pasha that Fakhr al-Din had besieged Damascus. Nassouh Pasha then set out on a major campaign to defeat Fakhr al-Din, who called on the help of his son, Prince Ali.
Martyrs
The Al-Ayasrah tribe provided a large number of martyrs during the resistance of British Mandate & Israel Occupation of Palestine.
Descent
Wahdan Bik ibn Khalifa Bik ibn Sulaiman Bik ibn Authman Bik ibn Prince Sulaiman ibn Prince Salim Al Abras ibn Prince Muhammed Qaraja ibn Sadr Al Din Ali ibn Abd Al Rahman ibn Mohammed ibn Hasan ibn Muhammed ibn Ismail Al Saleh ibn Sultan Ali ibn Yahya ibn Thabet ibn Ali ibn Ahmed Al Murtada ibn Ali ibn Rifa`a Al Hasan ibn Ali Al Mahdi ibn Muhammed ibn Al Hasan Al Qasim ibn Al Hussain Al Radi ibn Ahmed Al Saleh ibn Musa ibn Ibrahim Al Murtada ibn Musa al-Kadhim ibn Ja'far as-Sadiq ibn Muhammad al-Baqir ibn Zayn al-'Abidin ibn Al Hussain, the grandson of Mohammed ibn Abdullah.
Wahdan is the grandfather of Ayasrah in Sakib, who belongs to the thirty-second generation descendant of Muhammad.