بَنُو أَرْفَدَةَ

, (S, K,) or أَرْفِدَة, which latter is the more common and more approved, (TA,) mentioned in a tradition, (S,) A class of the Abyssinians, (S, K,) who danced: (S:) or a surname of them: or they were so called from the name of their chief ancestor, (TA.)