The tribe of Bani Malik, or the Amluk, is a broad clan of Himyar from which several tribes branch out under more than one name. Among them are Bani Al-Mulaiki, and they are the inhabitants of Dalal, Al-Malhama, and Al-Amluk in Alshar, Al-Adayn, as well as in Al-Dhalea, Al-Bayda, and Yafaa, and some of them live in Radfan, Lahj governorate, and all of them return to the Amluk tribes from Himyar.