 A small proportion of the tribe took up abode in the Wadi al-Taym at some point during the first centuries of Muslim rule.The Wadi al-Taym was the first area where the Druze appeared in the historical record under the name Druze.According to many of the genealogical traditions of the Druze feudal families, the feudal Druze clans claimed descent from Arab tribes originally based in eastern Arabia and which entered Syria after periods of settlement in the Euphrates Valley.