Abou Haidar

The Abou Haidar family is of Lebanese descent.
History
The Abou Haidar family traces its origins from the Arab Ghassanid kingdom. A Federation of tribes ruling an area that stretched from the (Euphrates river to the Jordan river an area encompassing what is today Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan). The kingdom had a total of 37 kings ruling for a period of 600 years. (ref to al a'akd alfarid) making the Ghassanids the first Christian Arab kingdom in the Middle East.

Properly speaking, the Ghassanids were an Arab dynasty whose members belonged to a clan of the south Arabian tribe of Azd, believed to have arrived in the Syrian desert about A.D. 250-300 and, about the year 500, to have become the dominant confederation in the desert east of the Jordan and southeast of Damascus.

At about 1650 AD the tribe of Al-furayjat who lived in Houran - Syria had a young man his name was Saadeh who had two brothers Abdul Massieh (Abou Ayoub) and Jerjus (Abou trad).

Sa'adeh himself had four sons: Haidar, Shalhoub, Freijat and Shahine or (abou kamal). Haidar was the eldest. The people referred to Sa'adeh as (Abou Haidar) which in English translates to (father of Haidar). It was customary to give the father the name of there first born son. this tradition continues to some extent to this very day. An honor, assigning the eldest son with the position of resuming the authority of there father in case there father could no longer resume his familial duties.

Saadeh ( Abou Haidar ) was a very distinguished prince of the Ghassanids. he was a leader to his people. His brothers and later on all of his sons were using his name (Abou Haidar) in reference to his lineage. For unknown reasons he moved with his family and his men to the Beka’a valley.

The Abou Haidar family in Lebanon Settled in places like Talia, Baskinta, Houshbarada, Hammana, Aldamour, and other cities and villages, eventually migrating to places as far as South and North America.

The Abou Haidar family name in English is represented with many different spelling variations
such as: Abou Haidar, Abu Haydar, Abi Haidar, Abo Haydar, Haidar, Haydar, Hyder, Haider, Aidar and so on.

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