Irir Samaale

Irir Samaale (var. Irir Samali) is the oldest common ancestor to several Somali clans and their respective subclans:cite book | last = Lewis | first = I. M. | coauthors = Said Samatar | title = A Pastoral Democracy: A Study of Pastoralism and Politics Among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa | publisher = LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster | date = 1999 | location = | pages = 11-13 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L2vXPfRsf04C&client=firefox-a | isbn = 3825830845]

* Dir
* Issa in Djibouti
* Isaaq
* Hawiye

Most of the Somali population claims descent from Samaale, who may have migrated from Arabia to the Somali peninsula. [cite book | last = Ahmed | first = Ali Jimale | title = The invention of Somalia | publisher = The Red Sea Press | date = 1995 | location = | pages = 117-123 | url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XpdAzRYruCwC&pg=PA122&dq=Samaale+somalia&lr=&as_brr=3&client=firefox-a&sig=JaFgq2_8cZsckDWkTc0DgfMuX0o#PPA117,M1 | isbn = 0932415997]

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