"Daarood" The Darod (Somali: Daarood, Arabic: دارود‎) is a Somali clan also known Banu Da'ud (بنو داؤود‎). The father of this clan is named Abdirahman bin Isma'il bin Da'ud bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli, but is more commonly known as Darod. The word Darod is said it was a changed word which was originally Dawud as in Arabic writing there could be miss-pronunciation of the word as the letters w and r could be mistaken in writting "darod = دارود‎ Dawud = داوود ، داؤود‎". also they say, in the Somali language, the word Daarood means "an enclosed compound," a conflation of the two words daar ((compound although the word daar originated from arabic word دار)) and ood (place enclosed by wall, trees, woods, fence, etc.).

Da'ud bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli, was one of the four sons of the well known Sufi Sheikh Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli, and his other brothers were Isma'il bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli, Ahmed bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli and Abdisamad bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli. Isma'il and Ahmed descendants are in yemen while the descendants of Abdisamad live in Andal in Hadramut, Yemen and Mahra ,Oman and they are called Ala-Bakreet.

Da'ud bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli, migrated with his followers from Zabid, Yemen to Zeyla, Somalia He is the grandfather of Abdirahman bin Isma'il Al-Jabarti, Who is burried in Heylan, Somalia. The father of Da'ud Sufi Sheikh Isma'il al-Jabarti of the Qadiriyyah order is buried in the Zabid District. Sufi Sheikh Isma'il al-Jabarti was nicknamed by city of Jabarta and also city of Zabid both places where he used to live. There are no such tribes called Jabarti but there are individuals or groups with different kind of backgrounds who share common names which shows the city they lived and their job description.

Sheikh Abdirahman bin Isma'il(Daarood )and his wife Doonbira Dir who was the daughter of Dir himself, forefather of one of the Somali main clans, Dir clan and both of them were buried in Haylaan, Somalia

According to early Islamic books of Al-Masudi and Ibn Yakut (who wrote about the specific Arabian families and tribes that lived in Jabarta and Zeila in his 9th century book Aqeeliyoon ) and local tradition, is believed that Daarood was descended from Aqeel ibn Abi Talib a member of the Banu Hashim and the cousin of the Prophet Muhammad.

Also it was written recently in the book of Sheikh Ahmed Bin Ali Al-Rajhi Al-Aqeeli about the aqeeliyoon Around the world ([اللإلى السنية فى الاعقاب العقيلية المسمى العقيليون فى المخلاف السليمانى وتهامة), and who is senior Ala-Aqeel and a member of the Supreme Council for the genealogy of the Hashemite (who is in Saudi Arabia) said rates of Daarood and date found about Sheikh Isma'il Al-Jabarti. (there is a book with him written by Isma'il Al-Jabarti Al-Zabidi Al-Aqeeli's disciple).

Lineage: Sheikh Abdul-Rahman Bin Sheikh Isma'il bin Sheikh Daud bin greatest teachers of religion, Abul- ma'ruf Sheikh Isma'il bin Ibrahim bin Abdul-Samad bin Ahmad bin Abdullah bin Ahmad bin Isma'il bin Ibrahim bin Abdullah bin Isma'il bin Ali-ZeynulAbideen bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Hamed bin Abdullah bin Ibrahim bin Ali bin Ahmed Bin Abdullah bin Muslim bin Abdullah bin Mohammed bin Sahaabi Aqeel ibn Abi Talib, ibn Abdu-mutalib bin Hashim Al-Qurashi.

--Fuad Ahmed Garase 01:19, 23 June 2011 (UTC)