Family tree of Muhammad explained

This family tree is about the relatives of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as a family member of the family of Hashim and the Qurayshs tribe which is ‘Adnani.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} According to Islamic tradition, Muhammad descends from Ishmael through the Hashim tribe.

Prophet Muhammad's family tree

• * indicates that the marriage order is disputed
• Note that direct lineage is marked in bold.

Genealogy

Muhammad to Adnan

According to Islamic prophetic tradition, Muhammad was descended from Adnan.^[5] Tradition records the genealogy from Adnan to Muhammad comprises 21 generations. The following is the list of chiefs who are said to have ruled the Hejaz and to have been the patrilineal ancestors of Muhammad.^[4]

• AD 570 – Muhammad
• AD 545 – Abdullah
• AD 497 – Abd al-Muttalib
• AD 464 – Hashim
• AD 439 – Abd Manaf
• AD 406 – Qusayy
• AD 373 – Kilab
• AD 340 – Murrah
• AD 307 – Ka'b
• AD 274 – Lu'ayy
• AD 241 – Ghalib
• AD 208 – Fihr
• AD 175 – Malik
• AD 142 – An-Nadr (Quraysh)^[6]
• AD 109 – Kinanah (Kinana Tribe)
•   AD 76 – Khuzaymah
•   AD 43 – Mudrikah
•   AD 10 – Ilyas
•   23 BC – Mudar
•   56 BC – Nizar
•   89 BC – Ma'add
• 122 BC – Adnan

Adnan to Isma'il

Various genealogies of Adnan up to Isma'il have been narrated. Adnan was the ancestor of the Adnani Arabs of northern, central and western Arabia and a direct descendant of Isma'il. It is not confirmed how many generations are between them; however, Adnan was fairly close to Isma'il. Isma'il had twelve sons who are said to have become twelve tribal chiefs throughout the regions from Havilah to Shur (from Assyria to the border of Egypt).

Genealogists differ from which son of Isma'il the main line of descent came, either through his eldest son Nabut, or his second son Qedar who was the father of the North Arabian Qedarite tribe that controlled the region between the Persian Gulf and the Sinai Peninsula. Genealogists also differ in the names on the line of descent.

Ibrahim to Adam

It is unclear how many generations are between Ibrahim and Nuh. Nuh's son Sam was the ancestor of the Semitic race.

• Abraham (Ibrahim)
  • Tarakh Tahur
• Shahru’
• Abraghu
• Falikh
• Eber (Hud)
• Salah
• Arfakshad
• Sam
• Noah (Nuh)^[7]
• Lumik
• Mutu Shalkh
• Enoch (Idris)
• Yarid
• Mahla'il
• Qainan
• Anush
• Sheeth
• Adam^{[8] [9]}

See also

• Sayyid, an honorific title denoting people accepted as descendants of Muhammad
• Abraham's family tree
• Descent from Adnan to Muhammad
• Ahl al-Bayt
• Family tree of Ali
  • Hashemites
  • Idrisid dynasty
  • Alaouite dynasty

Notes and References

1. Web site: Maqsood . Ruqaiyyah Waris . The Prophet's Line Family No 3 – Qusayy, Hubbah, and Banu Nadr to Quraysh . Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood Dawah . 2013-07-01 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080530213139/http://www.ruqaiyyah.karoo.net/articles/prophfamily3.htm . 2008-05-30 . dead .
2. Book: Ibn Hisham . The Life of the Prophet Muhammad . 1 . 181 .
3. Book: Parolin, Gianluca P.. Citizenship in the Arab World: Kin, Religion and Nation-State . limited . 2009 . 978-9089640451 . 30. "The ‘arabicised or arabicising Arabs’, on the contrary, are believed to be the descendants of Ishmael through Adnan, but in this case the genealogy does not match the Biblical line exactly. The label ‘arabicised’ is due to the belief that Ishmael spoke Hebrew until he got to Mecca, where he married a Yemeni woman and learnt Arabic. Both genealogical lines go back to Sem, son of Noah, but only Adnanites can claim Abraham as their ascendant, and the lineage of Mohammed, the Seal of Prophets (khatim al-anbiya'), can therefore be traced back to Abraham. Contemporary historiography unveiled the lack of inner coherence of this genealogical system and demonstrated that it finds insufficient matching evidence; the distinction between Qahtanites and Adnanites is even believed to be a product of the Umayyad Age, when the war of factions (al-niza al-hizbi) was raging in the young Islamic Empire."
4. Book: Hughes, Thomas Patrick. A Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopaedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs, Together With the Technical and Theological Terms, of the Muhammadan Religion. July 24, 2010. 1995. First published 1885. Asian Educational Services. New Delhi. 978-81-206-0672-2. 19.
5. Book: The genealogists do not differ concerning the descent of our Prophet Muhammad as far as Ma’add b. ‘Adnan.. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari. The History of al-Tabari . 6 . 37.
6. Book: Koenig, Harold G.. 2014-01-01. Springer Science+Business Media. Health and Well-Being in Islamic Societies. Differences and Similarities. 97. The Quraysh was Nadhr, the 12th tribal generation down from Kedar, the son of Ishmael mentioned in the Bible..
7. Ibn Hisham, Rahmat-ul-lil'alameen, 2/14-17.
8. Firestone et al., 2001, pp. 11–12.
9. Book: Hakim al-Nishaburi . Hakim al-Nishaburi . . 'Abd Allah ibn 'Abbas narrated Muhammad said: "Between Nuh and Adam were ten generations, all of them were upon Sharia of the truth, then they differed. So Allah sent prophets as bringers of good news and as warners.".