Otaibah

The Otaibah were an Arab tribe of Najd and Hejaz, tracing their ancestry to the Hawazin. Their name came from the descendants of Otaibah ibn Guzayah, around whom those remaining in Arabia gathered.

In 1470 the Sharif of Mecca, Muhammad ibn Barakat, attacked them east of Ta'if. By the eighteenth century they had surpassed Mutayr and Qahtan in central Najd. In 1816 Ibrahim Pasha drew the Otaibah and several Anazzah clans into his Egyptian campaign against Abdullah bin Saud.