found: Work cat.: Naʻānaʻah, Ibrāhīm ʻAbd al-Raḥmān. Shiʻr Ghaṭafān fī al-Jāhilīyah wa-ṣadr al-Islām, 2007.
found: Encyc. Islam, 1913:v. 2, p. 144 (Arabian tribe, full name Ghaṭafān b. Saʻd b. Qays ʻAylān. Ranged east of Khaybar and borders of Ḥijz̄ to Ajāʼ and Salmā the mountains of the Banū Ṭayyʼ)
found: Encyc. Islam, 1965:v. 2, p. 1023 (Ghatafan: name of a group of northern Arabian tribes belonging to the Qays ʻAylān; their lands lay between the Ḥijz̄ and the Shammar mountains in that part of Najd drained by Wādī al-Rummah)
found: Islamic desk reference, 1994:p. 113 (name of a group of northern Arabian tribes belonging to the Qays ʻAylan)
