| Bayt Hanbas | |
| Native Name: | بيت حنبص |
| Settlement Type: | Village |
| Pushpin Map: | Yemen |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Yemen |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  Yemen |
| Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
| Subdivision Name1: | Sanaa |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bani Matar |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
| Timezone: | Yemen Standard Time |
| Utc Offset: | +3 |
| Coordinates: | 15.265°N 44.1456°W[1] |
| Elevation M: | 2818 |
Bayt Hanbas (Arabic: بيت حنبص) is a village in Bani Matar District of Sanaa Governorate, Yemen.[1] [2] It is located above the Qa al-Nahim plain, in the mountains southwest of Sanaa.[2]
According to the 10th-century writer al-Hamdani, Bayt Hanbas is named after one Ḥanbaṣ b. Yuʽfir Dhī Yahar, of the tribe of Himyar.[2] Al-Hamdani described Bayt Hanbas as once having been the site of at least one great palace, which had been destroyed by the Qarmatians in 908 CE (295 AH).[2] No traces of the palace exist today.[2] Later, during the 13th and 14th centuries, Bayt Hanbas served as a minor stronghold of the Banu Shihab tribe.[2]