Banu Adi Explained

Banu Adi (Arabic: بنو عدي)
Type:	Quraysh, Adnanites
Descended:	Adi ibn Ka'b
Location:	Mecca, Saudi Arabia
Nisba:	Adawi
Religion:	Islam

Banu Adi (Arabic: بنو عدي) was a clan of the Quraysh tribe descended from Adi ibn Ka'b. The Banu Adi were with the Meccans as part of the escort that preceded the Battle of Badr; they did not join Quraysh further.

Notable members

Clan members include:

• Umar ibn al-Khattab, the caliph^[1]
• Zayd ibn al-Khattab, (died 632) companion of Muḥammad and the brother of Umar.
• Sa'id bin Zayd, (died 671) companion of Muḥammad.
• Zayd ibn Amr

(died 605) was a monotheist who lived in Mecca before Islam and father of Sa'id bin Zayd.

• Khattab ibn Nufayl

father of Caliph Umar

• Fatimah bint al-Khattab
• Zayd ibn Umar

son of Umar

• Abdullah ibn Umar

son of Caliph Umar

• Hafsa bint Umar

wife of Muhammad

• Al-Shifa' bint Abdullah: the only literate female sahaba
• Asim ibn Umar: son of Umar, one of the Tabi‘in.
• Salim ibn Abd-Allah (d. 728) was the Tabi‘un, scholar and hadith narrator. He was the grandson of Umar.
• Umar ibn Ibrahim ibn Waqid al-Umari, the Governor of Yemen for the Abbasid Caliphate from 813 to mid-814 CE.
• Abu Turab al-Zahiri

born in India of Arab Indian descent^[2]

• Barrah bint Awf, maternal grandmother of Barrah bint Abd al-Uzza and great-great-grandmother of Muhammad

See also

• Family tree of Umar

Notes and References

1. Web site: The History of the Khalifahs - Umar ibn al-Khattab . 2023-07-10 . www.bogvaerker.dk.
2. Introduction of ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn ʻAbd Allāh ʻAbd al-Karīm to Abū Turāb al-Ẓāhirī, 1343-1423 H/1923-2002 M : ṣafaḥāt min ḥayātih-- wa-taʼammulāt fī adabih. Riyadh: Maktabat al-Malik Fahd al-Waṭanīyah, 2008.