Anyone who aims to verify the name of this family in the only reference available, the records of the Sharia Court, finds that there was a family bearing the name of Ibn Hubeish in the eleventh century, and most of the twelfth century Hijri. We still cannot confirm or deny the relationship of that family with the family of Sheikh Ibn Budeir later, who is so far the only scientist of this family known to us at least before the thirteenth century AH / nineteenth century AD.
The family of Hubeish settled in Jerusalem one hundred and fifty to two hundred years before the Sheikh, and this family, which bears the name of Ibn Hubeish , had roots in this holy country. Sheikh Ibn Budeir may be only one of the late grandchildren of that family, and if that relationship is correct, then we would need to rewrite the history of the Budeiri family, because this contradicts the information circulating that the Sheikh’s father came from Morocco, and that this Sheikh himself is the founder of the Budeiri family in Jerusalem and Palestine. I have read several arguments dating back to about one hundred and forty years before the death of the Sheikh which also give this information based on the records of the Sharia Court in Jerusalem. Maybe in the future someone would look further into studying these assets and link them with each other to get to the truth of the matter. There are several observations that can be made about those documents.
- Ibn Hubeish ‘s family was a wealthy family.
- The concentration of the family in the period in question was in the area of Bab Hutta, a place where famous Jerusalem families such as Khalidi and others lived.
- The titles that appeared before the names of family members such as Pasha and Naqib are striking which indicates the status enjoyed by this family as these titles cannot be officially recorded in the court records by random, but have a connotation of the social status of these individuals.
- The family of Ibn Hubeish continued to live in Bab Hutta until the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth century, where various documents were received to list the inheritance of family members, and various powers of attorney; such as the power of attorney of a woman from the Chain Gate named Munira Mousa Hubeish Ibn Ibrahim Agha Islamboli, and therefore the names of the families Hubeish and Islamboli overlapped .
The following is a summary of some of the arguments mentioned in the Ottoman legal archives, which are documents of sale and purchase by Mr. Mustafa bin Naqib Muhammad Hubeish.
- Record 187 Image 275 p:541 He had six shops in Bab Hutta, which were damaged as a result of the collapse of the arch separating it from the shops, and the date of the argument is in late Shaaban in 1098/1686.
- Record 188 Image 88, pp. 170/3 Sayyid Mustafa before Sheikh Bahaa al-Din al-Lotfi had one hundred jars of oil in Jerusalem weight, and in this argument he mentioned a previous date of agreement on oil dating back to (1088/1677) and the date of this argument in late Shaaban 1098/1686.
- Record 189 images 210, p. 405 Sayyid Mustafa bought a ruined house next to his house, from Fathallah ibn Taha Al-Deiri Al-Aseel for himself, and the agent for Fakhriya the daughter of the late Sheikh Zakaria Al-Deiri, so they gave him what was transmitted to them as an inheritance from Taha Al-Deiri Al-Khalidi (d. 1660).
- Record 191 p:41 Mustafa bought from his brother Yusuf Pasha Ibn Lotfi Pasha Hubeish his common 4.4-carat share in Bab Hutta, bordered to the east by the shops of the buyer (mentioned in No. 1) at the price of thirty piasters, and this share passed to Mr. Yusuf by the legitimate legacy, and the date of the argument is 1100/1689.