The tribe of
Al Said traces its roots to a band of
Al Azd through a patrilineal ancestor, al-'Atik al-Asad b. Imran, who settled in
Dibba (Dabá), hence the band was also known as the "Azd of Daba". Like other
Qahtani, the Azd originally hailed from Yemen and migrated north after the destruction of the
Marib Dam. Archeological evidence points to the
Sasanid era, around the third or fourth century AD, a period of admittedly weak Persian rule.