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Line 19: == Origins == According to many documented sources and historians, the patriarch Samaale was the son of Irir who in turn was the Son of Hiil. It is believed that the Somali genealogy from the line of Samaale dates back to their [[Land of Punt|Cushitic ancestors]] 5000 YBP.<ref name="Lewis">{{cite book|last=Lewis|first=I. M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L2vXPfRsf04C|title=A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa|author2=Said Samatar|publisher=LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster|year=1999|isbn=3-8258-3084-5|pages=11–13}}</ref> The Dir and the Hawiye clan trace descent specifically from Irir the son of Irir Samaale, unlike the Darood and Isaaq who ascribe their genealogy to Arabian Quraysh Banu Hashim origins through [[Aqeel ibn Abi Talib|Aqiil]] the son of [[Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib]], who was a cousin of the [[Muhammad|Prophet Muhammed]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Lewis|first=I. M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eK6SBJIckIsC&q=iise|title=A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa|date=1999-01-01|publisher=James Currey Publishers|isbn=9780852552803|pages=12}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ahmed|first=Akbar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n_YMKlVfFLkC&q=samale+aqil&pg=PA29|title=The Thistle and the Drone: How America's War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam|date=2013-02-27|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|isbn=9780815723790}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Mukhtar|first=Mohamed Haji|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DPwOsOcNy5YC&q=samale+aqil&pg=PA62|title=Historical Dictionary of Somalia|date=2003-02-25|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=9780810866041}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Ng'ang'a|first=Wangũhũ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T14wAQAAIAAJ&q=samaale+aqil|title=Kenya's ethnic communities: foundation of the nation|date=2006|publisher=Gatũndũ Publishers|isbn=9789966975706}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Noyoo|first=Ndangwa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YBUxDwAAQBAJ&q=samaale+aqil&pg=PA16|title=Social Policy and Human Development in Zambia|date=2010-01-30|publisher=Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd|isbn=9781912234936}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Lewis|first1=I. M.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yoMBQCr4LysC&q=samaale+arab+9th+century&pg=PA12|title=A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa|last2=Samatar|first2=Said S.|date=1999|publisher=LIT Verlag Münster|isbn=9783825830847}}</ref><ref name="books.google.com"/>
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